Somewhere in my vain search for actual news stories yesterday I ran across a little column that says as of Aug. 4 the Dept. of Homeland Security and TSA are going to allow people to carry cigarette lighters on planes again.

As you know, I flew to Texas last week. What I haven’t said, and I wasn’t going to say until I read the article I can’t find now is that after arriving we stopped at a convenience store to pick up a cigarette lighter for me.

When I got to my hotel room and started emptying things from my purse I noticed I had another cigarette lighter at the bottom of my purse.

I had passed through security with this in my purse. On the way home I figured I’d just toss the new one in there too and see what happened.

I was able to return with both cigarette lighters in my purse.

So much for all the security and X-rays done at the airports.