Err Travel
Brilliant stroke by the airlines, this new rule that passengers are entitled to bring 100 pounds of their crap, but can only pack 50 lbs. per piece of luggage. I normally travel with one rolling expandable suitcase, but I now know to bring an extra nylon duffel inside it in case I go over the weight limit. Today, my luggage was over by 11 pounds. I had a choice: pay a $25 overweight charge, or give everybody a good look at my thongs as I repacked a bunch of my stuff into my duffel. Luckily, I've never been modest.
Apparently, the airlines think their business would be helped by giving their customers one more reason to be pissed off about flying. This policy is especially brilliant considering that it gives the already blindingly speedy and efficient TSA double the bags to check. The first airline to nix this rule gets my business by default. The rest of them -- well, they can eat my now much-seen thongs.
Amy, scuba dive. Airlines across the world will let you haul an extra bag of lumpy voodoo (tank excepted) if you tell 'em you're a diver.
Crid at May 12, 2004 9:56 PM
Crid -- Please open the black box of "lumpy voodoo" for us. I'm curious. Lena
Lena at May 13, 2004 7:20 AM
Fins; 'skin' (lycra); suit (neoprene); BC (bouyancy compensator); knife (with intensely butch calf strap); mask; snorkle; two-stage regular and hoses; box of miscellany; filthy, south-pacific-sweat-stinkin'-tee-shirts; dog-eared, brine-stained Grishams and Clancys.
Crid at May 13, 2004 9:02 AM