Dangerous water

The view over Greenland

As I've written before, travel between islands is often a stressful and unpredictable undertaking. But I haven't really mentioned the international airport in detail. Actually, I won't discuss its details even in this post... but instead I'll talk about a particular aspect of it that I find crazy-making.

You know how, in American airports, you go through security? At security you take off anything metal, remove your baggy of liquids for screening, along with shoes, electronics, and coats. It's a pain, right?

Then you get to the other side of security and are thirsty, but you don't want to spend $2-4 for a bottle of water. So if you're like me, you take an empty bottle, or drink the water in your bottle and carry the empty through to fill up on the other side.

Do you do that too?

Well, you'd better not try doing that here at our islands' international airport. Not allowed.

Bringing an empty water bottle through? Not allowed. They'll happily throw away the bottle for you, but you certainly aren't permitted to bring an empty bottle through security. What if you wanted to take water on the plane?

But what if your water bottle is one that you buy without water in it? (think: Nalgene) Well that's fine. Why this and not that? That's the rule, miss.

Oh, and you want to buy a bottle of water after security to take on the plane? They'll happily take your money, open your bottle of water, and confiscate the cap so you're not tempted to carry water onto the plane.

That dangerous water.