{{Franny}} Yeah, that's no fun.

Burrell, I think it was you that recommended TJ's Greens Beans & Grains? I'm trying it for lunch today - nom!

I always seemed to end up sitting around the Houston airport forever on layovers. Possibly because I was afraid of missing a connection, but I don't remember that part.

Just going to rant for a second here....

My work (ya know, the ones that have me on a PIP) have put me out there as an expert in my field, and I will be talking to a reporter from a national industry magazine next week. They have also told me to save the date for an off-site meeting 11/30-12/1. WOULD THEY MAKE UP THEIR GODDAMNED MINDS PLEASE?

-t, yes that is the dumb part, but what's also dumb is that one goes through customs at the port of first entry in the U.S., which necessitates shenanigans like this. In much of the rest of the world, it's the final destination.

I've been rescreened in both EWR and JFK. I don't think LGA has any international flights, so that's a moot point.

So they have great confidence in you, except when they have no confidence in you. Awesome.

Shrift and I got rescreened in Panama connecting back from Ecuador, when we literally went from arrival gate to the gate 50 feet away. Which was a giant PITA because of liquor bought at duty free in Quito that suddenly couldn't reboard with us.

Some airports don't have a continuous sterile area between international baggage claim/customs and connecting flights.

JFK, hissssss.

Which was a giant PITA because of liquor bought at duty free in Quito that suddenly couldn't reboard with us.

I despise that. In Rome, you have to go through Passport Control upon landing, but you don't retrieve your luggage. If you are connecting to a domestic flight, you have to transfer to another terminal and be screened again. My father had to leave a bottle of whiskey behind years ago, but since they've instituted the sealed bags with receipt showing it was purchased after security at your departure airport, you don't have to surrender your liquids that don't meet the 100 mL rule.

JFK, hissssss.

Yes. I try to avoid it at all costs. ATL is not much better though. DTW is awesome for international flights and connections. Still have to be rescreened, but the volume of passengers is not there, so you fly through, and it dumps you right out into the main concourse.

Hubs and I got rescreened in Philadelphia. Not fun after a trans-Atlantic flight, when we thought we might be running late for our connecting flight to DCA. Which turned out to be a prop plane. Which had to do all sorts of holding patterns because something or other was going on in the DC area.

I like international flights into and out of IAD. But I've never had to connect there, so I can't speak to that.

All the glass bowl talk is cracking me up, since that's the euphemism Carolyn Hax uses for asshole, in her chats.

I know, meara! It's making me laugh, too.

WOULD THEY MAKE UP THEIR GODDAMNED MINDS PLEASE?

Apparently no.

-t, yes that is the dumb part, but what's also dumb is that one goes through customs at the port of first entry in the U.S., which necessitates shenanigans like this.

Yeah, my non-US coworker didn't make it onto our connecting flight because there wasn't enough time to go through customs, get your luggage, etc., for a non-US citizen You'd think the travel agent would have accounted for that?