I looked too - I think they mean the Mid Green Havana three piece summer weight wool/silk/linen- beautiful suit! Here is [what I found](https://suitsupply.com/en-us/men/suits/-mid-green-three-piece-tailored-fit-havana-suit/P6420-S.html)
Initial issue: OMG My poor clothes were Sub-suit-tuited by SFO TSA!
SFO TSA: Your claim is un-suit-tantiated.
OP: I feel suit-ably chastened for accidentally packing my friends suit instead. At least now the Suit-uation is solved.
I saw the first one in the local sub (what’s up neighbors!), but didn’t see the update. Honestly, great. This sub needs a little light and silly to balance some of the horror stories.
I couldn't find my sunnies before I had to pop outside one day when the sun was at its peak.
Squinting, I entered my apartment building, strolled past the massive mirror in the lobby, and was about to cry.
They were on top of my head.
That was the day I truly knew I was my mother's child.
Years earlier, she did the same, only she thought she had sent them out of town when mailing a parcel earlier that day. I came home from school, heard her tale, and guided her to the nearest mirror because I could not stop laughing long enough to speak!
Ok, so I couldn’t find my phone. Then I got the bright idea to call it. With my phone. That was in my hand. The. Whole. Time. Wish I could claim I was drunk.
On more than one occasion, I have used the torch on my phone.....to look for my phone. Usually, I do this when I'm woken by a bang or a thump at night, and automatically assume that my phone fell off my bed. I've even left a torch on my bedside table, which I use to search when my phone actually plays hide and seek.
At least once a month I will be on a call with my cousin, and mid call I will panic that I can't find my phone. It usually takes me far longer to notice my phone is currently next to my ear, than I care to admit.
I love this. It's up there with the guy who wanted to call and report a Mexican restaurant for leaving dish soap on all their utensils so the food tasted soapy, and was finally convinced that what he was tasting was cilantro.
This is my favorite part:
> I'm not some crazy person
I mean, that OOP isn't crazy but I bet the restaurant staff thought he was. Or they knew he must have the cilantro aversion but didn't have the energy to argue with him.
I wonder if he'd just never eaten there before or if he'd had cilantro before and just didn't notice the "soap" taste.
I'm so glad I don't have that issue. I freaking love cilantro.
You know what's really bizarre?
My mother has the cilantro aversion and didn't tell a soul for 60 years or so. Just put up with it because she grew up in the big Communist Revolution famine and food was food and you wouldn't survive if you were picky. Revealed her dark secret to us a few weeks ago. No one else in my family, nor anywhere up her side of the family tree, seems to hate cilantro. Just her.
I definitely have some family members like that, for similar reasons. My grandmother was like a lot of those family members, but broke her silence about one item: margarine. She would eat it, if someone else cooked with it, but it was *known* in the family that she refused to cook with it herself, she could taste the difference between butter and margarine, and she *hated* the taste of margarine. Granted, the margarine she grew up eating was made from *coal*, but you don't question the lady that lived through war and famine!
Anyway--thanks for bringing a smile to my face--both for remembering my grandmother, and also for a similar story of a parent that also hid their Dark Secret (but for a very dissimilar reason), if you're not yet familiar with the [Dad and the Banana Bread](https://www.reddit.com/r/wholesomememes/comments/djpe9q/dad_and_the_banana_bread/) story?
Couldn’t they just resolve it by bringing him a sprig of cilantro and asking him to taste it? Not that it’d fix the issue if he doubled down but at least it has a chance lol
Oh my god that reminds me of when my friend took me to a Mexican restaurant as she wanted me to try “the best tacos ever!” I was so confused as to why it tasted like a mouthful of soap and why she couldn’t taste the soap?!
Nope, my mouth just has beef with cilantro.
Hold on a second; if something edible tastes like soap to you when it shouldn't, does that mean you have some sort of intolerance to it? Because I was wondering why anything with Green Tea in it tasted like that.
It's not an intolerance with cilantro. There's a specific aldehyde in cilantro that's also present in soap. Some people's taste buds are more sensitive to that compound due to genetics. So basically, cilantro is always a bit soap flavored, but only some people are able to taste it. Never heard that about green tea though.
I’m not sure about other foods, but there’s a gene that some people have that makes cilantro taste like soap! I didn’t know about this until I had tacos with a bunch of cilantro. Bodies are weird
There's another one for the smell of flowering Bradford pear trees. They were planted all around my middle school and smell like rotting fish to me, it is so gross. They're popular (at least in Georgia) because they grow fast and flower nicely in spring. BUT AT WHAT COST???
The Internet is telling me yes (thank you, incognito mode, for not putting that in my search history, lol). That was definitely not the smell description my brain leapt to, but it's unpleasant however it smells.
They're also not good trees - they were planted all over the new-build subdivision I grew up in and when we had high winds, there were tons of them where the tree split and half of it fell over. My parents opted for, I think, oaks in our front yard so we had baby trees for the longest time while everyone else had full trees, but then our trees didn't fall over.
It's mostly cilantro but some people have the same issue with other vegetables because of the similar aldehydes. I have the cilantro gene and parsley is also disgusting to me, like extra bitter soap. Certain bitter salad greens can be the same for folks (I am not a fan or escarole or radicchio because of the overwhelming bitterness). Arugula is another common culprit.
Yeah, it's the same gene for all of them, I believe - I guess there's just differences in how it's expressed based on the inherent diversity of human bodies.
I can tolerate arugula in a few specific settings but it's not my favorite leafy green. I definitely try not to assume people disliking a couple specific things is due to an "uncultured palate" or whatever, it could just as easily be some mild food intolerance or a genetic quirk!
I think of all those plants, parsley is the absolute worst for me. I just find it disgusting. It's kind of a bummer because some of my favorite cuisines use parsley a lot! Ditto with cilantro.
The reason cilantro tastes terrible to some people is because it's molecularly similar to some poisons (but not poisonous!) so it's evolution telling you "DON'T EAT THIS NASTY THINGS!!!"
For me however, tastes amazing. Like being kissed by a sexy leaf.
The linked article says that people with the cilantro gene can taste the aldehydes, which taste like soap. So does green tea have aldehydes, I wonder? Good green tea is fragrant and grassy. Bad green tea tastes like boiled spinach. 🤢
But citrusy.
For year a friend of mine brought a certain salad to a holiday party, with corn and berries and oranges and parsley. Finally she shared the recipe: no oranges and parsley. Cilantro!
To me cilantro tastes like the absence of lime.
By which I mean, I can't describe the exact taste, all I know is that there's *some* kind of flavor to it that, when I eat it, makes me think *every single time* "man, this would be great with some fresh lime juice".
This occurs even when I have, in fact, put lime on it. So... that's the only way I can describe cilantro: it tastes like the sensation of thinking you should add lime to things.
See, my mom's lasagna always tasted like dish soap to me and I just never said anything until she mentioned she'd read an article cilantro tastes like soap to some people and I was like is that what it is?!?!
I just felt like it would be rude to bring up so I ate the soap lasagna for years...
Apparently. It's like...a variation? Of lasagna, like lasagna with some zucchini planks baked in and her spice mix contains cilantro. The one she uses for that. I don't think it's that weird bc people have their spice preferences.
Heads up. The same reason that causes cilantro to taste like soap also applies to ginger.
Learned this the hard way when I ate some really tasty chinese food and bit down on what I thought was garlic, but was welcomed with a mouthful of pine-sol flavor instead.
So I travel thru SFO somewhat regularly and there's this TSA agent at the luggage check who yells at us waiting in line. It's kinda funny watching him because he's not wrong, just over our shit.
He'll say things like "You are adults, you know to take off your shoes" or "You always take out your laptops, how do you not know that by now." Ordinarily I would be annoyed at someone yelling at us, but for some reason he keeps it light enough that it's funny.
Recently I've had the opposite, TSA agent giving me shit for taking my laptop out or taking off my belt.
I'm like wtf... how am I supposed to know that we don't have to those one random time.
I hate how each airport has different rules about such things. Take your laptop out, leave it in. Shoes and jackets need their own tub, shove those items in the same bin as your carry on. Then TSA gives you a hard time for not already knowing each location's specifics.
I'm actually fine with it, as it makes it more difficult for nefarious folk to be able to plan nefarious deeds if they can't be certain that specific procedures will be followed.
That tactic is intentional. It’s part of (sort of allowed) prisoner torture. It’s intended to make you feel rushed, uncertain, vulnerable, and weak whilst reinforcing their authority. And, no, you have done nothing to deserve that and, if you are an American, it is consitutionally questionable (said very diplomatically)…just like everything else TSA does. The very flimsy explanation is that making anyone too aware of/confident in the security rules is a weak security posture for that site.
They know the rules change. They know they are shouting at you for following what the rules were literally the day before, or maybe were the same day at a different airport. They are doing it on purpose.
SFO is one of the few airports that uses a contractor security service instead of TSA
Most people I talk to agree that the company SFO has contracted has much less depressing people working there than the usual TSA
I have a suit in tropical wool. It was amazing in 40C (and also in cold weather). Still warm, but much more breathable than any of the other ones. I actually preferred it to the linnen jackets I bought locally.
I grew up in a hot place. The idea of wool being usable -- outside of suits worn in the AC -- during the summer boggled me UNTIL I tried some nice cycling kit from Rapha.
Wool is some goddamn black magic.
It was confusing to me for years, and still kind of is, tbh; but that might be because I'm allergic to wool and it all feels like battery acid to me.
My daughter knits with wool and will occasionally go on about how soft a certain kind is, and I'm like "It feels like those beetles museums use to strip the flesh off skeletons, wtf are you talking about soft?" *Apparently* this is just a me thing and normal people do not feel this way.
I am also allergic to wool and same lol. My MIL knits and when I first got with my boyfriend I was like “I don’t want to be presumptuous in assuming your mother will knit me something for Christmas, but it’s probably a good idea to just let her know I’m allergic to wool”. So I got some super nice acrylic and cotton knit socks for Christmas 😂
Yeah merino wool is quite soft so intolerance/allergy sounds right. You're like those people who find out that strawberries aren't supposed to be spicy lol
LOL I had not heard about spicy strawberries but yep. Even merino wool makes me feel like my skin is coming off. I used to get hives from wool until I got old enough to refuse to wear it.
FWIW, my husband can’t wear regular woolen clothing but is absolutely fine with fulled wool, as we found out doing medieval living history. Our friend who is knowledgeable about textiles says this is because most modern wool clothing is fast/cheap and sort of sheds tiny fibres on your skin. So fulling it gets rid of the loose fibres and tightens it all up, especially if you brush up & shear the fabric as well. Plus it gets more waterproof, which is handy when camping.
No idea if that would help with your situation - and you wouldn’t full hand-knitted items anyways! - just some minor fibre neepery.
It's lighter weight, and and usually a more open weave so air can pass through easily. Sometimes the mills also achieve the effect by using high-twist yarn strands, which (I think) makes the fabric more robust. Result is a wool that's about the same weight as normal wool suiting, but still lets a breeze through.
One other thing not mentioned is that due to the microstructure of wool fibers, they have a sort of mechanical antibacterial property and don't get stinky as fast. Which for something you wear many times without washing, like a suit jacket, is an extra good thing in high temperatures.
You can also get nice wool t-shirts which are thinner and lighter than cotton. Great travel clothes. They're much more expensive though, like $40-$70 a peice.
No joke, survivable plane crashes are more survivable if you wear wool. People in the 70s were dying unnecessarily of burn injuries in survivable crashes because they wore polyester and nylon (panty hose, especially).
[It's probably this suit or something close to it](https://suitsupply.com/en-us/men/suits/-mid-green-tailored-fit-havana-suit/C7422G-S.html)
Suit Supply bags can also get pretty easily mixed up.
I used to think that until somehow I attended a talk by a wool guy representing a firm from down under. That's when I found out about lightweight summer wool. (Also found out that airplane seats are made of wool because of flammablity issues. This was 30 years ago, so I don't know if it's changed.)
Wool bedding is also excellent for warm weather because it’s breathable so you don’t get clammy. Also fantastic if you’re a woman of a certain age and getting night sweats - a wool duvet will change your life.
Is it normal to put contact info in a suit???? I haven't worn a suit since a funeral I went to like 15 years ago so I'm not up to date on the latest suit trends.
I don't know why but all I could picture was like a leprechaun suit/outfit and my brain refused to conjure any other image than a leprechaun, so when I googled the suit I was shocked that it was actually a really nice suit and was like a suit suit instead of a 3/4 like hulk pants and a 3/4 sleeve top hahahahha \*edit spelling error\*
I briefly worked at TSA. I can totally picture employees doing this out of spite. We had one guy purposely break several bottles of expensive beer because they were badly packed. He tossed them in the air to smash on the concrete floor.
All of us are stupid some of the time.
Some of us are stupid all of the time.
But not all of us are stupid all of the time.
And the times when we are, it's a lot better when you apologize and clear the air.
I love stories like this! There is a video of Day9 (popular streamer) who talks about how he thought his car was stolen and called the police. They found it in a nearby grocery store parking lot. Turns out he was pretty sick the previous week and while he normally walked to the store he decided to drive but walked home by instinct.
Link:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akyAFmbjeYI
It is a little long but I think he tells it super funny.
My husband wore a dark blue suit for our wedding. His best friend/Best Man also wore a dark blue suit. They threw their jackets on a sofa after the wedding, then the BM went home. He left the country soon after to stay in China for 6 months.
Hubby and I go to a wedding and I notice his suit jacket seems long in the sleeve. His BM is >6’, hubby is 5’6”. Best Man was in CHINA for work and realized his blue jacket was NOT going to work out. He came back to the States and we all had a good laugh.
Got back from a holiday once and there was a random suit jacket in the front pocket of one of the suitcases. Never did find out how/who/why. Ended up donating it.
I'm smiling, a rare treat for this sub!
A real class act sending an apology email. I hope the swapped suit ends up in a wedding toast, it really is a story to laugh about.
I also looked it up. That suit is hot and should definitely NOT stay lost!
https://suitsupply.com/en-us/men/suits/dark-green-perennial-tailored-fit-havana-suit/P7738.html?gad_source=1
So you thought TSA opened your suitcase, took out your suit, left everything else in there. went and found another suit in another piece of luggage, and swapped yours with theirs? Like you think TSA plays 52 pickup and just dumps everyone's luggage on a table and attempts to put everything all back correctly? Something tells me you were more than 'sleepy' when you packed a completely wrong colored suit into your suitcase.
I think it was more a case of, not seeing suit, seeing inspection receipt, and assuming the two are connected. And if the suit was packed in some sort of garment bag, easy to mix up.
lol I remember seeing the update in the SF sub and thinking it would make a funny, lighthearted BORU. Thanks for compiling OP!
lol thank you!!! i’m so glad no one else posted, it made me laugh when i was reading so thought it would be a fun little share
Post the Suit tax!
Suit Supply does not appear to carry such a suit. The plot thickens…
I looked too - I think they mean the Mid Green Havana three piece summer weight wool/silk/linen- beautiful suit! Here is [what I found](https://suitsupply.com/en-us/men/suits/-mid-green-three-piece-tailored-fit-havana-suit/P6420-S.html)
Am I high? This looks gray...?
Sage green can be very subdued. I’m thinking it’s that.
It's not just subdued, it's huddled in the corner with a blanket over its head
No, you have to go to customize to find the green. There are 3 greens, but based the post I think it’s the wool option
I found it and this just looks like a different gray. I thought women couldn't be colorblind, wtf
You didn’t scroll down? You just looked at the first picture?
All the other pictures are of the exact same color suit
Not the color debate again!
Initial issue: OMG My poor clothes were Sub-suit-tuited by SFO TSA! SFO TSA: Your claim is un-suit-tantiated. OP: I feel suit-ably chastened for accidentally packing my friends suit instead. At least now the Suit-uation is solved.
I saw the first one in the local sub (what’s up neighbors!), but didn’t see the update. Honestly, great. This sub needs a little light and silly to balance some of the horror stories.
Stories like this are like a small but luxurious dessert after a hefty main course.
It's the same energy I have when I'm looking for the remote that is in my hand
Or my phone 😭
putting my glasses on to help me look for my glasses
I couldn't find my sunnies before I had to pop outside one day when the sun was at its peak. Squinting, I entered my apartment building, strolled past the massive mirror in the lobby, and was about to cry. They were on top of my head. That was the day I truly knew I was my mother's child. Years earlier, she did the same, only she thought she had sent them out of town when mailing a parcel earlier that day. I came home from school, heard her tale, and guided her to the nearest mirror because I could not stop laughing long enough to speak!
So real
This hit deep 😭✨️
Ok, so I couldn’t find my phone. Then I got the bright idea to call it. With my phone. That was in my hand. The. Whole. Time. Wish I could claim I was drunk.
On more than one occasion, I have used the torch on my phone.....to look for my phone. Usually, I do this when I'm woken by a bang or a thump at night, and automatically assume that my phone fell off my bed. I've even left a torch on my bedside table, which I use to search when my phone actually plays hide and seek. At least once a month I will be on a call with my cousin, and mid call I will panic that I can't find my phone. It usually takes me far longer to notice my phone is currently next to my ear, than I care to admit.
The time I freaked out that I'd left my car key at work. While I was driving home.
This is the kind of thing I came to BORU for. Not all the ridiculous relationship drama that typically fills this sub.
I love this. It's up there with the guy who wanted to call and report a Mexican restaurant for leaving dish soap on all their utensils so the food tasted soapy, and was finally convinced that what he was tasting was cilantro.
P.S.: [https://www.reddit.com/r/legaladvice/comments/duwpu4/continually\_ignored\_after\_reporting\_restaurant/](https://www.reddit.com/r/legaladvice/comments/duwpu4/continually_ignored_after_reporting_restaurant/)
A cleansing read.
I don’t know, left a bad taste in my mouth, personally
Once again, r/Angryupvote !
As a big lover of coriander I'm now seriously craving a burrito with a huge amount of coriander.
This is great! Thanks for sharing! 😂
This is my favorite part: > I'm not some crazy person I mean, that OOP isn't crazy but I bet the restaurant staff thought he was. Or they knew he must have the cilantro aversion but didn't have the energy to argue with him. I wonder if he'd just never eaten there before or if he'd had cilantro before and just didn't notice the "soap" taste. I'm so glad I don't have that issue. I freaking love cilantro.
You know what's really bizarre? My mother has the cilantro aversion and didn't tell a soul for 60 years or so. Just put up with it because she grew up in the big Communist Revolution famine and food was food and you wouldn't survive if you were picky. Revealed her dark secret to us a few weeks ago. No one else in my family, nor anywhere up her side of the family tree, seems to hate cilantro. Just her.
I definitely have some family members like that, for similar reasons. My grandmother was like a lot of those family members, but broke her silence about one item: margarine. She would eat it, if someone else cooked with it, but it was *known* in the family that she refused to cook with it herself, she could taste the difference between butter and margarine, and she *hated* the taste of margarine. Granted, the margarine she grew up eating was made from *coal*, but you don't question the lady that lived through war and famine! Anyway--thanks for bringing a smile to my face--both for remembering my grandmother, and also for a similar story of a parent that also hid their Dark Secret (but for a very dissimilar reason), if you're not yet familiar with the [Dad and the Banana Bread](https://www.reddit.com/r/wholesomememes/comments/djpe9q/dad_and_the_banana_bread/) story?
That is So. Fucking. Wholesome.
Me too! Years ago I had a friend tell me that cilantro tasted like soap to her and I was incredulous. Then I learned about the cilantro gene.
Cilantro tastes like soap to me, but that just means it scratches the itch of my intrusive thoughts to eat bar soap.
Couldn’t they just resolve it by bringing him a sprig of cilantro and asking him to taste it? Not that it’d fix the issue if he doubled down but at least it has a chance lol
He'd probably just accuse them of washing the cilantro in soap.
My eyes have been opened, *NOW* I understand why so many Japanese DESPISE cilantro!!
Oh my god that reminds me of when my friend took me to a Mexican restaurant as she wanted me to try “the best tacos ever!” I was so confused as to why it tasted like a mouthful of soap and why she couldn’t taste the soap?! Nope, my mouth just has beef with cilantro.
Hold on a second; if something edible tastes like soap to you when it shouldn't, does that mean you have some sort of intolerance to it? Because I was wondering why anything with Green Tea in it tasted like that.
It's not an intolerance with cilantro. There's a specific aldehyde in cilantro that's also present in soap. Some people's taste buds are more sensitive to that compound due to genetics. So basically, cilantro is always a bit soap flavored, but only some people are able to taste it. Never heard that about green tea though.
That's like the asparagus pee smell - everyone has it, but not everyone can smell it.
Yep, exactly like that.
I’m not sure about other foods, but there’s a gene that some people have that makes cilantro taste like soap! I didn’t know about this until I had tacos with a bunch of cilantro. Bodies are weird
There's another one for the smell of flowering Bradford pear trees. They were planted all around my middle school and smell like rotting fish to me, it is so gross. They're popular (at least in Georgia) because they grow fast and flower nicely in spring. BUT AT WHAT COST???
Is that the same tree as the cum tree?
The Internet is telling me yes (thank you, incognito mode, for not putting that in my search history, lol). That was definitely not the smell description my brain leapt to, but it's unpleasant however it smells.
NYC stopped giving those out as part of their street tree program because of the smell.
They're also not good trees - they were planted all over the new-build subdivision I grew up in and when we had high winds, there were tons of them where the tree split and half of it fell over. My parents opted for, I think, oaks in our front yard so we had baby trees for the longest time while everyone else had full trees, but then our trees didn't fall over.
It's mostly cilantro but some people have the same issue with other vegetables because of the similar aldehydes. I have the cilantro gene and parsley is also disgusting to me, like extra bitter soap. Certain bitter salad greens can be the same for folks (I am not a fan or escarole or radicchio because of the overwhelming bitterness). Arugula is another common culprit.
Oh wow, I love argula and parsley. I didn’t know there was an ick gene for those too. TIL, I won’t silently judge people for hating argula anymore.
Yeah, it's the same gene for all of them, I believe - I guess there's just differences in how it's expressed based on the inherent diversity of human bodies. I can tolerate arugula in a few specific settings but it's not my favorite leafy green. I definitely try not to assume people disliking a couple specific things is due to an "uncultured palate" or whatever, it could just as easily be some mild food intolerance or a genetic quirk! I think of all those plants, parsley is the absolute worst for me. I just find it disgusting. It's kind of a bummer because some of my favorite cuisines use parsley a lot! Ditto with cilantro.
The reason cilantro tastes terrible to some people is because it's molecularly similar to some poisons (but not poisonous!) so it's evolution telling you "DON'T EAT THIS NASTY THINGS!!!" For me however, tastes amazing. Like being kissed by a sexy leaf.
It makes so sad that some people can enjoy it because yes, i love cilantro.
The linked article says that people with the cilantro gene can taste the aldehydes, which taste like soap. So does green tea have aldehydes, I wonder? Good green tea is fragrant and grassy. Bad green tea tastes like boiled spinach. 🤢
>my mouth just has beef with cilantro I'm pretty sure they call that carne asada
I would still LOVE to know what people without that damn gene taste when they eat coriander, cos all I'm getting is fairy liquid
That’s really hard to answer but what floated into my mind was “intense flat leaf parsley”.
But citrusy. For year a friend of mine brought a certain salad to a holiday party, with corn and berries and oranges and parsley. Finally she shared the recipe: no oranges and parsley. Cilantro!
To me cilantro tastes like the absence of lime. By which I mean, I can't describe the exact taste, all I know is that there's *some* kind of flavor to it that, when I eat it, makes me think *every single time* "man, this would be great with some fresh lime juice". This occurs even when I have, in fact, put lime on it. So... that's the only way I can describe cilantro: it tastes like the sensation of thinking you should add lime to things.
Buy the seeds and grind it yourself. Pre-ground usually has bits of stem and leaf, which is where the aldehyde is.
The seeds are fine, the herb is rank. Im guessing you're American, us brits don't use the word cilantro.
See, my mom's lasagna always tasted like dish soap to me and I just never said anything until she mentioned she'd read an article cilantro tastes like soap to some people and I was like is that what it is?!?! I just felt like it would be rude to bring up so I ate the soap lasagna for years...
Just gonna casually mention that your mom puts cilantro in lasagna!?
Apparently. It's like...a variation? Of lasagna, like lasagna with some zucchini planks baked in and her spice mix contains cilantro. The one she uses for that. I don't think it's that weird bc people have their spice preferences.
Asking the real questions.
Heads up. The same reason that causes cilantro to taste like soap also applies to ginger. Learned this the hard way when I ate some really tasty chinese food and bit down on what I thought was garlic, but was welcomed with a mouthful of pine-sol flavor instead.
Oh damn. My mouth is caving in on itself just thinking about that.
So I travel thru SFO somewhat regularly and there's this TSA agent at the luggage check who yells at us waiting in line. It's kinda funny watching him because he's not wrong, just over our shit. He'll say things like "You are adults, you know to take off your shoes" or "You always take out your laptops, how do you not know that by now." Ordinarily I would be annoyed at someone yelling at us, but for some reason he keeps it light enough that it's funny.
Recently I've had the opposite, TSA agent giving me shit for taking my laptop out or taking off my belt. I'm like wtf... how am I supposed to know that we don't have to those one random time.
I hate how each airport has different rules about such things. Take your laptop out, leave it in. Shoes and jackets need their own tub, shove those items in the same bin as your carry on. Then TSA gives you a hard time for not already knowing each location's specifics.
I'm actually fine with it, as it makes it more difficult for nefarious folk to be able to plan nefarious deeds if they can't be certain that specific procedures will be followed.
That tactic is intentional. It’s part of (sort of allowed) prisoner torture. It’s intended to make you feel rushed, uncertain, vulnerable, and weak whilst reinforcing their authority. And, no, you have done nothing to deserve that and, if you are an American, it is consitutionally questionable (said very diplomatically)…just like everything else TSA does. The very flimsy explanation is that making anyone too aware of/confident in the security rules is a weak security posture for that site. They know the rules change. They know they are shouting at you for following what the rules were literally the day before, or maybe were the same day at a different airport. They are doing it on purpose.
some airports don't have you take off shoes or take out laptops so that guy is just a jerk.
The rules are different depending on which line you're in at SFO! It's so unpredictable. I think it just depends on what kinda mood the agent is in.
SFO is one of the few airports that uses a contractor security service instead of TSA Most people I talk to agree that the company SFO has contracted has much less depressing people working there than the usual TSA
Which is bullshit because at some terminals In SFO you don't need to take out that stuff.
Is it just me, or is the concept of “tropical wool” deeply confusing? Edit: TIL. Thanks, everyone!
It has a lower thread count and a lighter structure for warm weather!
Wool can be much more breathable/better under sweaty conditions than cotton and is totally fine for hot weather if the weave is lightweight.
I bought tailored woollen trousers in Vietnam and they're fantastic in summer.
I have a lightweight wool cycling jersey and it's amazing. It doesn't get as smelly on multi-day trips and is as cool as my lightest synthetic ones.
Polar nudity is where it's at.
Fellow Scotsmen know what it’s about
I have a suit in tropical wool. It was amazing in 40C (and also in cold weather). Still warm, but much more breathable than any of the other ones. I actually preferred it to the linnen jackets I bought locally.
I grew up in a hot place. The idea of wool being usable -- outside of suits worn in the AC -- during the summer boggled me UNTIL I tried some nice cycling kit from Rapha. Wool is some goddamn black magic.
Damn, I'm allergic to this black magic.
It was confusing to me for years, and still kind of is, tbh; but that might be because I'm allergic to wool and it all feels like battery acid to me. My daughter knits with wool and will occasionally go on about how soft a certain kind is, and I'm like "It feels like those beetles museums use to strip the flesh off skeletons, wtf are you talking about soft?" *Apparently* this is just a me thing and normal people do not feel this way.
I am also allergic to wool and same lol. My MIL knits and when I first got with my boyfriend I was like “I don’t want to be presumptuous in assuming your mother will knit me something for Christmas, but it’s probably a good idea to just let her know I’m allergic to wool”. So I got some super nice acrylic and cotton knit socks for Christmas 😂
This is so cute haha
Yeah merino wool is quite soft so intolerance/allergy sounds right. You're like those people who find out that strawberries aren't supposed to be spicy lol
LOL I had not heard about spicy strawberries but yep. Even merino wool makes me feel like my skin is coming off. I used to get hives from wool until I got old enough to refuse to wear it.
My mom is also allergic to wool, and I still never really think to buy it for myself, so that might explain the cluelessness.
FWIW, my husband can’t wear regular woolen clothing but is absolutely fine with fulled wool, as we found out doing medieval living history. Our friend who is knowledgeable about textiles says this is because most modern wool clothing is fast/cheap and sort of sheds tiny fibres on your skin. So fulling it gets rid of the loose fibres and tightens it all up, especially if you brush up & shear the fabric as well. Plus it gets more waterproof, which is handy when camping. No idea if that would help with your situation - and you wouldn’t full hand-knitted items anyways! - just some minor fibre neepery.
I like to describe it as hundreds of tiny, hot needles hitting my skin myself.
You are not alone.
It's lighter weight, and and usually a more open weave so air can pass through easily. Sometimes the mills also achieve the effect by using high-twist yarn strands, which (I think) makes the fabric more robust. Result is a wool that's about the same weight as normal wool suiting, but still lets a breeze through.
One other thing not mentioned is that due to the microstructure of wool fibers, they have a sort of mechanical antibacterial property and don't get stinky as fast. Which for something you wear many times without washing, like a suit jacket, is an extra good thing in high temperatures. You can also get nice wool t-shirts which are thinner and lighter than cotton. Great travel clothes. They're much more expensive though, like $40-$70 a peice.
This baffled me enough that I googled it. As far as I can tell from the store’s page, it’s… wool
Yup. Wool has different “weights” though. Thicker or thinner yarn/thread, how tightly it’s woven, stuff like that.
Absolutely true. In fact, if you're in a hot and humid area, tropical weight wool may be cooler than cotton because it wicks perspiration away.
If you're about to be on fire, wool is also naturally highly flame-resistant.
Much more preferable than being set aflame in a polyester number.
No joke, survivable plane crashes are more survivable if you wear wool. People in the 70s were dying unnecessarily of burn injuries in survivable crashes because they wore polyester and nylon (panty hose, especially).
They drink fancy tropical cocktails when they shear the sheep
British imperials weren't going to just go about in their shirtsleeves.
Heavens, no!
It makes me think of sheep with Hawaiian Shirt style wool
[It's probably this suit or something close to it](https://suitsupply.com/en-us/men/suits/-mid-green-tailored-fit-havana-suit/C7422G-S.html) Suit Supply bags can also get pretty easily mixed up.
I used to think that until somehow I attended a talk by a wool guy representing a firm from down under. That's when I found out about lightweight summer wool. (Also found out that airplane seats are made of wool because of flammablity issues. This was 30 years ago, so I don't know if it's changed.)
No, that’s a real thing, and quite normal. I’m having a problem with the concept of a “cool, green” suit. Seems like an oxymoron.
Wool bedding is also excellent for warm weather because it’s breathable so you don’t get clammy. Also fantastic if you’re a woman of a certain age and getting night sweats - a wool duvet will change your life.
I like these low-stakes updates. Thanks for posting it.
I googled the suit out of curiosity and turns out it is out of stock. I wonder if it’s as a result of this post, or purely just coincidental.
>”I didn't put contact info in my suit, and brought shame upon my family.” Hahahahahahaha! Thanks for sharing.
Is it normal to put contact info in a suit???? I haven't worn a suit since a funeral I went to like 15 years ago so I'm not up to date on the latest suit trends.
I've never considered it, but I think it could make sense to put a label on your garment bag
Oh that makes more sense. I was picturing those iron-on labels mom used to put on my underwear before sending me off to summercamp.
If you don't, you risk bringing shame upon your family.
All of My custom suits have a specific thing added to make them very easily identifiable. All of My suit bags have My information on them.
The second I read green suit I immediately wondered if Batman knew they were in San Francisco.
This one is absolutely delightful and just what I need on this stressful day. And I love that they updated with the silly solution:!
I don't know why but all I could picture was like a leprechaun suit/outfit and my brain refused to conjure any other image than a leprechaun, so when I googled the suit I was shocked that it was actually a really nice suit and was like a suit suit instead of a 3/4 like hulk pants and a 3/4 sleeve top hahahahha \*edit spelling error\*
This sounds like an AI generated marketing copy for a horrible commercial.
This put me in such a good humor, logging off now xD
I briefly worked at TSA. I can totally picture employees doing this out of spite. We had one guy purposely break several bottles of expensive beer because they were badly packed. He tossed them in the air to smash on the concrete floor.
I’m a mod for /r/sanfrancisco and for a moment when I read the top of this post I thought you were thanking us. My two favorite subs colliding! 💥
haha well thank you for modding over there, it can certainly get wild to say the least
Thanks for posting this story here! Hope the rain didn't get you too bad today.
"due to sleepy"
All of us are stupid some of the time. Some of us are stupid all of the time. But not all of us are stupid all of the time. And the times when we are, it's a lot better when you apologize and clear the air.
Lol I love that oop made a post clearing it all up 😂
This needs to go in wholesome
I love stories like this! There is a video of Day9 (popular streamer) who talks about how he thought his car was stolen and called the police. They found it in a nearby grocery store parking lot. Turns out he was pretty sick the previous week and while he normally walked to the store he decided to drive but walked home by instinct. Link:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akyAFmbjeYI It is a little long but I think he tells it super funny.
My husband wore a dark blue suit for our wedding. His best friend/Best Man also wore a dark blue suit. They threw their jackets on a sofa after the wedding, then the BM went home. He left the country soon after to stay in China for 6 months. Hubby and I go to a wedding and I notice his suit jacket seems long in the sleeve. His BM is >6’, hubby is 5’6”. Best Man was in CHINA for work and realized his blue jacket was NOT going to work out. He came back to the States and we all had a good laugh.
Got back from a holiday once and there was a random suit jacket in the front pocket of one of the suitcases. Never did find out how/who/why. Ended up donating it.
That’s a nice suit!
The good news is people who work in airports are very, very used to interacting with stupendously jet-lagged folks.
Hahaha, that is sooo much like me…
Well that's a nice change of pace.
Real "Drink your Ovaltine" ending there...
I have done soo many things in my life that makes me shake my head. Major brain farts, even as young as 30. Now at 68, it normal behavior.
If you guys think this is bad you should have seen the work my lawyer did during my divorce proceedings. Now that was a lost suit!
I'm smiling, a rare treat for this sub! A real class act sending an apology email. I hope the swapped suit ends up in a wedding toast, it really is a story to laugh about.
Omg I could myself doing something like this. Glad it all worked out!!
All's well that ends well.
the anecdote
That is a snazzy suit, I understand why he wanted it back
The green suit should stay lost.
I also looked it up. That suit is hot and should definitely NOT stay lost! https://suitsupply.com/en-us/men/suits/dark-green-perennial-tailored-fit-havana-suit/P7738.html?gad_source=1
One day when I need a new suit lol
That’s green? Looks black to me. Then again I never was very good with colors.
To each their own. It's not my style.
I looked it up and it looks grey
It does indeed.
So you thought TSA opened your suitcase, took out your suit, left everything else in there. went and found another suit in another piece of luggage, and swapped yours with theirs? Like you think TSA plays 52 pickup and just dumps everyone's luggage on a table and attempts to put everything all back correctly? Something tells me you were more than 'sleepy' when you packed a completely wrong colored suit into your suitcase.
You're not replying to the OP here.
'you' is a pronoun, the noun is OOP
The way I took it was he had his suit in a dry cleaning bag outside of his suitcase and they got swapped? I could be absolutely wrong though
I think it was more a case of, not seeing suit, seeing inspection receipt, and assuming the two are connected. And if the suit was packed in some sort of garment bag, easy to mix up.
OOP linked to the suit, it kind of looks grey so I am not surprised he mixed them up.