Day 45: Calling all passengers, you are now ready to donate, no matter what your zone.

So you can't bring your Cokes through the x-ray/metal detector area, I get that. But since you also can't bring them onto the plane after you've paid $2.50 in supposedly more secure concourses, that leaves 100s of caps with unused codes abandoned in airport concourses that poor janitorial people have to pick up and throw away.

Wouldn't it be nice if we could terrorism on it's ear and make some lemonade out of the baffling lemons we've been confronted with at airports across our great nation?

Well, we can. If you see a cap or two lying around a concourse as you're waiting to be herded onto your chosen rocket with wings, maybe you could pick it up and send the 15-digit code on the back to HelpAKid and we'll put it to use for my boy at St. Jude, Brandon McKnight, and get him a prize from Coke's equally frustrating promotion.

I have to credit the idea to this nice lady who was waiting to fly from SF to Chi last week who saw me scrounging said abandoned caps and chatted me up with the suggestion that I try to get all the caps from bottles discarded at airport security's check-in, x-ray, pat down, wanding festival we all have to go through just to put our shoes on again. Alas, they're not even allowing airport workers to touch that gold mine for security reasons. So it's up to us.

If you can, thanks for helping out. And remember to keep smiling.

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