She had taken a small water bottle with her but had failed to wash it out from its previous deployment as a milk bottle. The two fluids mixed and after 5 days in Mrs Nick's handbag, in the desert, the contents were not pleasant. Smuggling onto a plane was not a good idea and refusing, perhaps reasonably, to drink the contents to prove they were not combustible, threw her open to an accusation of being 'naughty' and a low level security operation involving some sort of sniffing machine.
OK?