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January 02, 2006

My common sense is warring with my anxiety, and it ain't pretty

I'm back in Ohio. So is my computer, which we carried onto the plane. The same can be said for my iPod, my wallet, my cell phone, and my book. The same cannot be said for anything else I brought with me to Minnesota.

We got in only a few minutes late today, around 12:20. At the baggage claim, we watched as the carousel eventually stopped, leaving about 20 people from our flight still standing and watching as though it would begin again any minute. After about 10 minutes of that, one of the women went to the airline's luggage office and came out yelling about how ALL our luggage was lost. That's right, nearly 20 people's luggage from the same flight.

I figured it was no big deal. I've never had my luggage lost before, but it happens all the time and very rarely are things ever gone for good. We all got in line and when we put in our claim, we were informed that it was very likely that our bags would be delivered to us tonight. I believed them. After all, when at least 20 bags from the same flight are misplaced, they ought to be together somewhere. And flights from Chicago to Cleveland are pretty regular. Other than enduring the agent's near freak-out over our insistance that it would be ok to deliver our stuff to a college dorm and that YES, we WOULD answer the phone and be there to let them in, it was pretty painless.

But now it's been nine hours, and I just called the phone number on our "receipt", and our luggage still hasn't even been located, let alone sent on its way to Cleveland. It's not like I need the stuff in there immediately, although Lauren will have to use my shampoo to shower tomorrow, but it would sure be nice to know that it's going to get back to us. And if it's not, it sure would be nice to know that so I can move on. I hate waiting for things. Not as much as the crazy, upset, yelling lady, but it's not fun.

I guess at least it's a good thing we didn't pack the hand-me-down KitchenAid mixer my grandparents gave us while we were in town... Right?

Posted to Miscellaneous at January 2, 2006 09:15 PM

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Posted by: Emerge at January 3, 2006 12:07 AM