{"id":109,"date":"2005-12-05T06:57:11","date_gmt":"2005-12-05T13:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/?p=109"},"modified":"2005-12-05T06:59:14","modified_gmt":"2005-12-05T13:59:14","slug":"crochet-danger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/2005\/12\/crochet-danger\/","title":{"rendered":"Crochet Danger"},"content":{"rendered":"

I had to laugh at Eve\u2019s link<\/a> to the story of the weenie who was scared of knit\u00adting needles<\/a> (while admit\u00adting I first saw the link at whump dot com<\/a> from fol\u00adlow\u00ading XML<\/span> 2005 Aggreg\u00adat\u00ador<\/a> links). I have a bet\u00adter story than mere knit\u00adting needles or even nee\u00addle\u00adwork needles, since all of those have really blunt ends.<\/p>\n

When the TSA<\/span> dir\u00adect\u00adives first came out after Septem\u00adber 11, ban\u00adning knit\u00adting needles, I, along with a lot of oth\u00ader people, was struck by the arbit\u00adrar\u00adi\u00adness of the bans. No knives, but forks were still allowed, and so were glasses made of glass. Per\u00adson\u00adally I\u2019d rather have someone come at me with a blunt knife that\u2019s not cap\u00adable of cut\u00adting any\u00adthing than a broken glass. So I read the list of banned items and noticed that crochet hooks wer\u00aden\u2019t on the list. Giv\u00aden that in terms of crafts I bounce between knit\u00adting, nee\u00addle\u00adwork, crochet, and lots of oth\u00aders, I have a good sup\u00adply of crochet hooks. I picked one out to take on my next set of flights. Not just any crochet hook though, one of my fine 1.25 mm crochet hooks that at the time I was using for filet crochet. So this is a hook, with what can only be described as a barb on one end, with a total dia\u00admet\u00ader of 1.25 mm (I have smal\u00adler, but had two of the 1.25 mm hooks so could eas\u00adily risk los\u00ading one).<\/p>\n

The first secur\u00adity per\u00adson checked the hook, looked wor\u00adried, asked her super\u00advisor, the super\u00advisor said \u201ccrochet hooks are allowed\u201d. And that was it. On board I went, with my filet crochet and my crochet hook. These days knit\u00adting needles are expressly allowed, as are crochet hooks (although the TSA<\/span> calls them \u201ccrochet needles\u201d) so I will still be able to carry around my filet crochet hooks and scare unsus\u00adpect\u00ading knit\u00adting needle phobics (yes, there is such a thing as a needle pho\u00adbia; most people who suf\u00adfer from it have pho\u00adbi\u00adas about vac\u00adcin\u00ada\u00adtion and blood test-type needles, not knit\u00adting needles, although the pho\u00adbia is appar\u00adently bad enough in some people to be set off by any needle-type object). <\/p>\n

So if you see someone with what looks like a viciously thin, barbed object and thin yarn, just remem\u00adber the TSA<\/span> per\u00admits it<\/a>. Mind you, read\u00ading that list does raise oth\u00ader ques\u00adtions, such as \u201cif you can\u00ad\u2019t smoke on board, why do you need a cigar cut\u00adter?\u201d and \u201cwhy are toy trans\u00adformer robots expressly per\u00admit\u00adted but not oth\u00ader toys?\u201d but that\u2019s just me being picky.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I had to laugh at Eve\u2019s link to the story of the weenie who was scared of knit\u00adting needles (while admit\u00adting I first saw the link at whump dot com from fol\u00adlow\u00ading XML<\/span> 2005 Aggreg\u00adat\u00ador links). I have a bet\u00adter story than mere knit\u00adting needles or even nee\u00addle\u00adwork needles, since all of those have really \u2026 Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading \u201cCrochet Danger\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9,1,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crafts","category-general","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}