My Dahlink Dawtah is home for Thanksgiving. Her university has one of those extended Thanksgiving breaks, which is lovely, especially since she comes all the way from Florida for this visit!
I had been listening to all those warning shows about the airlines and holiday travel, what to do and what not to do. Well, DD had a great deal...she'd finally logged enough miles with her rewards program to earn a free ticket (yippee!)...so, there were really no decisions to be made. She flew back, we stood by the luggage belt to pick up her bags and...
only one bag. Wait a minute. There were two.
Suddenly, we are aware that several other people have that same look on their faces, and are making the same sort of comments were are. Hey! Look at the luggage carts of people going around...maybe somebody grabbed yours by mistake (or NOT by mistake...that's another whole topic for a later blog.)
Ever notice how many people have BLACK luggage? Makes everything look awfully similar!
So, anyway...the airline's story is that it's the government's fault. Ok. I know we like to blame everything on them...but, this? It seems the feds have to check every piece of luggage, but they have a limited amount of inspectors assigned to each airline, and if not all the bags are examined, then only the approved ones go with the flight. The rest stay behind until checked out, then go on a different plane.
Does that sound stupid to anybody else?
So, the airline gave us 2 options: either we could come back when they called us in several more hours to pick it up, and get a nifty $40 travel voucher for our troubles, or have it delivered to our doorstep for free.
DD wanted the delivery. It was promised (in a later phone call) by 11:30 pm. So, by 12:30 we were in bed and snoozing.
3:30 a.m. I am awake. The porch light shines around the edges of my bedroom blind and drives me crazy. Call the airline again. Get a machine. Leave a message. Is it possible they dropped it off at the wrong house?
Turn off the light. Go back to bed. Get all warm and snuggly and just about to drift off, when...
Knock, knock, knock. It's the luggage delivery guy (parked up on my LAWN.) Here's the bag. What about 11:30??? Yeah, well, that's about when they called him to come get all the bags. God only knows where all those other people live, and where on the list we were.
So, DD is home, safe and sound, with both suitcases.
Another holiday's travel adventure over.
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4 comments:
So glad you will have all your "little" ones together for a holiday! No matter when we have flown - or which airline, it seems we have our luggage delivered to us. Thank God we do get it!!
Enjoy it all while you can,,,who knows when it will happen again.
Advice from one whose family is spread far and near!
I just booked a family trip to Florida for the spring this morning. I am so worried about everything having to do with flying, now I have to add the luggage worry, UGH. Deliveries at 3:30am, oh my. My luck would be to open the door at 3am without turning off the alarm, and the kids would be jolted awake crying, then the police would show up and the phone would start ringing...
Yeah...one other lady lost her carseats! She was visiting Grandma, and had the carseats together in a laundry bag. I told them they should make the airline get them carseats somehow (there's a car rental place there, right?) They couldn't leave in Grandma's car without the carseats!
Yes, I am so thankful to have all 3 kids in one place at one time for this holiday. I am very much aware that this'll get rarer each year.
It's funny about holidays, tho'. They don't mean as much to me as they used to. Maybe it's because my mom and grandparents are all gone, and they were the ones who did all the special things. I almost prefer the one-on-one moments (often unscheduled) times I get with loved ones. No stress, no fuss, no frantic cleaning and cooking (and cleaning again.) I find I prefer my loved ones one-on-one...for so very many reasons.
But, the opposite view would be to be all alone on a holiday, and that would be depressing.
Its so funny that they delayed your luggage... we were so early to the Tampa airport on Saturday (fear of crazy lines etc) that one of our bags actually went on an earlier flight to Islip! LOL.
We were waiting and waiting at the luggage thingie and when it didnt come through the small opening in the wall, Rob took a walk over to the Southwest Counter. Well there it was ... waiting for us for the last two hours! LOL.
It's a good thing they dont lose people on flights... or do they?
This news just in.... man loses wife on flight from Chicago to New York. "she was just sitting next to me and next thing i knew... Poof".
Imagine that!
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