I really loath airport security

Pardon a rant here. I just got though airport security. It's not what they did to me, but to a woman who could not have been any less than 70. Apparently, she had one liquid bottle too many. The security officer tried desperately to explain to her why such an encroachment upon our nation was so vile. By the look of it, it was a bottle of perfume she meant as a gift for a granddaughter. The officer poked around her bag for a good fifteen minutes until he found the offending container. Then took it out and showed it to the woman.

"You can't have this in here, your going to need to go back though security and put it in your car, or see if you can put it in your checked bag. You do have a checked bag, right?"

The lady nodded, still bewildered.

"So, what do you want to do with this?"

The lady pointed desperately to the plane.

"No, I'm sorry ma'am. You cannot keep it in your carry-on."

This continued for another 10 minutes or so, until the woman gave up hope and wandered listlessly back to the check-in desk to see if they could put the bottle in her checked bag. Yeah, ah-uh... she was going to blow the plane with a bottle of nitro-g, and putting it in the hold instead of the cabin is going to stop that from happening. 

If the terrorists are using old women now, we are screwed. And if they are still trying to blow up planes, they are stupid. Welcome to America.

Scott