Jules--This is a quote from someone on a pen board. DC super Pen show is this weekend and lots of people are flying in, with pens. Which are often filled. With a liquid.

Discussion was about whether any pens could be carried on.

Here's the quote, "The attitude of screeners has also been dependent on the airport. At LAX they are just plain mean. Plus you never know what will set them off. In their position, they use their petty power to make things miserable for anyone of a tribe they don't care for... (horror stories omitted). "

Notice comment about LAX being mean.

Mary

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My only pen-freque friend, lol! Alas, my Montblanc Meisterstück went the way of my earrings and rings: it is now part (in spirit) of The Ferrydiddle Mystery House.

And so: the lesson is, don't fly out of LAX if you can possibly help it? *That* I had pretty much already decided.

In China, they called that attitude "Dirt Policy" or "Dirt Power" ~~ meaning you are right at the bottom of the power pile, and the ONLY way you could show that you actually had any, was to abuse it. I always thought that it was a hilarious: by abusing it, you advertise how little you actually have. . . But they never seem to catch on. . . .