My wife and I spend two winter months in Miramar Beach, Florida. We have for the past six winters. Our three married children and their children wanted to have a family week's vacation in Miramar Beach this fourth of July. Before it's all said and done there will be 27- family members gathering.
Most began arriving yesterday. Some drove from locations in Central and Northern Illinois and St. Louis, Missouri while others opted to catch a flight. And the flight is where my story truly begins. Our second oldest granddaughter is a married reading specialist in a Northern Illinois school district. She is also a mother of a 10-month old boy who breasts feeds. As mother and child were going through the routine TSA screening before boarding their Florida bound flight, the TSA agent did the 'pat-down' then questioned mother about the milk filled baby bottles. My granddaughter explained that she 'breast-pumps' for such occasions, thus filling bottles and avoiding public breast feeding. The agent insisted that they 'check' the bottle's contents.
Several minutes passed when finally the agent returned to tell my granddaughter that her bottled breast milk tested positive with explosives. The agent refused to listen to mother's pleas but emptied the bottles and told her she could have the empties. When I heard the story, I thought the TSA agent failed to follow through with logic. If this woman confesses that she pumps from her boobs the milk in tested bottles and the milk in those bottles are actually explosives then the woman's boobs could explode during the flight.
Right now this 10-month old great-grandson is crawling and pulling himself up ready to walk; ah but I'm thinking there can be a real upside to this. If indeed, my granddaughter is breast-feeding explosive chemicals into this boy's body, he just might one day leap tall buildings in a single bound. A real-in-life 'SUPERMAN,' the kryptonite kid! The downside in this scenario is I must be discreet avoiding nearness to my granddaughter on this family vacation.
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