Air travel sucks and you know it. But only if you completely ignore what’s really happening. Sometimes, it takes a kid’s wisdom to remind us.
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Two Frogs, One Cup … One Gross Pre-Flight Beverage
Let’s say you were a college student with a pair of pet frogs. And the spring semester was over, and you had to fly back home from the West Coast to the East Coast. And well, you’re a pet person: Even if your pets are slimy amphibians, No Frog Left Behind!
How do you get your frogs onto a plane?
My sister-in-law faced this dilemma back in the Golden Age of air travel when you could actually carry liquids on board.
And while liquids were allowed, frogs in the cabin … well, not so much.
Sis-in-law knew this. So she decided her frogs would be undeclared stowaways – in a Thirstbuster cup! She filled it with water, and slipped the frogs into their portable pond. She completed the ruse with a straw poking out of the lid.
She showed up at the security checkpoint with her carry-on and her Cup o’ Frogs. The TSA agents, being TSA agents, wanted to make sure she wasn’t sneaking something harmful aboard.
They asked her to take a nice big gulp from her “Thirstbuster.”
I can only imagine her reaction. I wish I’d been there. I mean, I never shy away from a eating something most people find gross. I’ve eaten all manner of wacky foods: Rancid shark meat, possum pie, camel schnitzel, many more. My sister-in-law would not touch any of this. No way.
But I guess she would drink FrogWater (similar to Vitamin Water, but with frogs rather than Vitamin C). She sucked up just enough of her amphibian amigos’ [...]
