bcla
On our rugged Eastern foothills.....
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Or, you can get creative, like the ladies on the special birthday trip to Orlando that were at my gate last July. There was a bit of a weather delay, so we were at the gate for awhile, and the SWA terminal at my airport has that "charging bar" seating.
So, I'm walking over to the restroom, and I see this group of women standing around a charging bar chatting and laughing, and they all have big custom-decorated Tervis tumblers with X's Birthday Bash, and the date. The tumblers were at least 32 oz size, and perhaps a bit bigger.
As I walked back past them, I could see two of them seated with their carryons in their lap. pouring powdered margarita mix into bottles of water. Naturally, I had to linger where I could see what happened next. Sure enough, out came the full-sized contact lens solution bottles, which had apparently been emptied and refilled with tequila. They were tending bar; squirting tequila into the bottom of each tumbler and then topping it off with margarita mix from the water bottles. They had ice in the carryon bags as well. By the time we boarded the flight that whole group was bombed out of their minds. They were seated right behind me, and I overheard them discussing buying more tequila at the Orlando duty-free; they were connecting for a flight to the Caribbean from there, and they wanted to make sure they had enough to keep the buzz on.
I'm guessing by then they would have been too blotto to remember to be discreet, even if they managed to open a new bottle.
Not that I'm advocating such a ridiculous sideshow, but is it actually illegal to drink saline solution? Would an FA have had reason to confiscate the bottles? AFAIK, the FAs didn't try to take it from the women topping up the drinks on board, but I could tell the FAs were plenty annoyed at how loud they were.
That's kind of the behavior (loud and obnoxious) that the rules are supposed to address. If it's obvious. I could easily smell an alcoholic beverage. I guess it wouldn't quite be like trying to hide liquor in bottles of laundry detergent though, if anyone watched Superbad. However, I can't imagine being able to rinse it out where the smell/taste wouldn't transfer.