The authority of Camelbaks

The authority of Camelbaks
Yesterday at lunch, my coworkers and I were talking about how you could easily sneak alcohol into any setting if you put it in a Camelbak or similar water/bladder device. Because people would say, "Oh look, they're granola and outdoorsy. They're harmless. And they're certainly not going to be hitting the bottle - they're all about hydration." And if anyone does suspect you, like at the airport, the security people will say, "excuse me ma'am, I'm going to have to ask you to take a sip of that." "SURE!" you exclaim, as you take a sip of your tasty vodka tonic with a twist. Mmm.

After work, Erik and I went for a little hike by our house. Access to the trail involves sneaking behind the Qualcomm headquarters and taking a little path that starts in their parking lot. This is all fine, but yesterday they had half of the parking lot cordoned off for construction. So we cut through it. Coming back, we climbed back into the parking lot and over some construction machinery. We could easily have been sneaking around, stealing things, breaking equipment, selling Qualcomm's secrets, tagging, doing drugs, running with the wrong crowd, etc. Sure enough, a little security truck comes towards us right as we were looking as fishy and sneaky as possible. But he drove right past.

We had a Camelbak. We can do no wrong.