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Travel Made Difficult

Ah, the joys of flying. Enjoy the bracing ten minute walk from the car park to the airport. Discover the bag you’ve measured does not fit into the little frame for acceptable cabin-sized baggage. Be confident that you have no dangerous objects such as tweezers, razors or nail scissors. Be prepared to embrace your masculine side and spend your holiday growing big eyebrows and leg hair. Discover that a sealed carton of non-dairy milk is considered an explosive risk in the cabin. Pay just £6 to have your bag put in the hold but, before it goes off on the conveyor belt, unpack and re-arrange the contents in order to accommodate said milk, ignoring queue forming behind you. Be turned back from the departure lounge because you have a sealed carton of fruit juice and a bottle of mineral water to drink in the departure lounge and during the flight, AND to bag up any small vials of perfume or cosmetics. Return to security having eaten lunch and drunk all liquids, and roll towards the lady who g...