So, as I passed slowly through security at Boston Logan yesterday, a TSA person took the stick of deodorant from my little Ziploc bag and confiscated it because it was over the regulation maximum of 3.4 ounces. True, it was four ounces, and a gel which is apparently bad. It was also three quarters empty. One ounce left, well, perhaps 1.5 ounces if you count the dregs that hold the deodorant in the dispenser. The contact lens fluid in the same Ziploc bag was also four ounces, full, and an opaque bottle, but it was not questioned.
Perhaps the TSA person thought that her colleagues could use some deodorant, and mine was of a preferred brand. And what could I do? Make a stink about it? That would be impossible: I had used the product myself that day and it would take several hours to wear off. I flew home instead.
