Part of my complete clusterbother experience at the Malawi airport yesterday was that they made me check one of the bags that I had brought and packed as a carry-on. I had already packed my carry-ons so that one of my carry-ons had more important and one less important stuff. When I was made to check the latter, I did a quick scan of the inside to make sure of this distribution, but forgot all about my keys being in one of the pockets.
Neither of the bags I checked arrived. I wonder if I will ever see either again, and what will be left inside them if I do. Any bets?
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You mean you’re locked out? Poor Jeremy. Also, I am really digging the “bother” substitution.
Hope you get your bags soon. Take a nap of the just when you finally get home.
I had the doorman let me in. Although, no office keys and I need to find my spare car key.
Yikes! Really sorry to hear this. I hope they arrive!
Next time, I recommend not taking your office keys. After all, what are the chances you’d need those on the road? I have these on the same key ring as my home keys, but recently have started to remove the office keys when travelling. NU Security should be able to let you in, just be sure to have an ID.
I also always have the same bag as the “no way is this getting checked” bag and everything essential goes into that automatically. That way I don’t have to make last-minute decisions precisely since the hectic nature of the situation would make it difficult to remember everything.
Let me know if you need a ride somewhere in the meantime. Hope you got a chance to watch the fireworks, I figure the ones tonight would have been perfect from your building (well, your side anyway).
Good luck getting reunited with your luggage!
Our luggage was delayed on our return from Africa a couple of years ago, but it showed up the next day intact. On the other hand, one of the missing bags from a European trip never showed up at all until — three weeks later — we filed a claim for financial reimbursement for it. THEN they found it and sent it to us. Moral of the story (I think): if the bag does not turn up quickly, file the paperwork to get paid sooner rather than later. I think it increases their incentive to find the bag.
Everyone was pretty sure where the bags were from the Europe trip, as airline employees had been told that there were thousands of unsorted bags stacked up in Amsterdam. But, as I said, it was only the request for money that led to the actual return of the bag.