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Travel tips: eyedropper gin

Published: Oct 1, 2014 by Kip · This post may contain affiliate links · 4 Comments

A few weeks ago my mother rang me to ask if she could bring (read: smuggle) alcohol on an upcoming flight. I chuckled before I realised she was serious, and then I continued to laugh.

"Mom, there are rules in place for carrying liquids through security, and TSA are particularly unforgiving."

"But what if I can fit it inside a ziploc baggy?" she inquired.

So I googled it, and lo and behold there's a subset of the air bound population maxing out their liquids limit by stuffing as many miniatures as possible into a small plastic bag.

But my mother wasn't about to spend out on miniatures, not when she already had alcohol at home, and certainly not when she had a number of 3 ounce bottles in her possession.

Gin in eyedropper bottle
My mom is almost as classy as I am. Almost.

And that, my friends, is how my mom came to get three 3 ounce eyedropper bottles of gin through security in her bag.

The same bag that she put in the bin and couldn't access throughout the entire flight.

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  1. Ksenia of At the Immigrant's T says

    October 02, 2014 at 3:32 pm

    I *love* that she couldn't access her bag throughout the whole flight. This is too much.

    Reply
    • Kip says

      October 02, 2014 at 3:48 pm

      You should see her when she does drink! So funny.

      Reply
  2. Spillage Griffiths says

    October 17, 2014 at 10:19 pm

    Why did she put it in the bin, after all that?

    Reply
    • Kip says

      October 18, 2014 at 4:32 am

      It was by accident.

      Reply
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