12voltman
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- I'm a Fish!
Prefaced with "It could be my own damn fault"
But that doesn't make me any less pissed off, or frustrated.
Flew into Miami with 2 checked pieces of luggage. A duffle and a Pelican 1650. Naturally the Pelican had almost all of my gear in it, and quite naturally the one bag to not be available to me in baggage claim would be the one of the most value. After 2 days of waiting for it to show up on the "next flight" according to agents in baggage claim, I am reconciled to having $2000 worth of gear go by by. And as I mentioned before I do have the "it's my own damn fault" thing going on in my head to somehow keep me from wanting to start cruising every dive boat operation in S. Florida looking for my stuff. Hey, it's not like I didn't mark the inside of it very well with all my c-cards and logbook.
Want to know the best part. You're going to love it. I am employed by the airline from which my bag is missing. Yeah, I know....you can stop cheering now and sit down. I normally check a piece of luggage about as often as we have a Gulf War, well maybe not that often, but only because I almost always travel very light. In this case there was no avoiding it. I'm starting a job down here and needed my gear. Like I said, I'm employed by an airline. That means I am not really working for an airline at the moment....I am on a leave of absence trying to get away from a disastrous way of life....that of the airline employee. Boy there's a lot of irony here that could be explored, but I'm just going to go away now.
Anyway, be careful with your Pelican's as I think they have steal me written on them sometimes. By the way, I actually think the bag was taken off of the belt in Miami, as I didn't arrive as early as my luggage. The other bag was already in the office waiting for me.
But that doesn't make me any less pissed off, or frustrated.
Flew into Miami with 2 checked pieces of luggage. A duffle and a Pelican 1650. Naturally the Pelican had almost all of my gear in it, and quite naturally the one bag to not be available to me in baggage claim would be the one of the most value. After 2 days of waiting for it to show up on the "next flight" according to agents in baggage claim, I am reconciled to having $2000 worth of gear go by by. And as I mentioned before I do have the "it's my own damn fault" thing going on in my head to somehow keep me from wanting to start cruising every dive boat operation in S. Florida looking for my stuff. Hey, it's not like I didn't mark the inside of it very well with all my c-cards and logbook.
Want to know the best part. You're going to love it. I am employed by the airline from which my bag is missing. Yeah, I know....you can stop cheering now and sit down. I normally check a piece of luggage about as often as we have a Gulf War, well maybe not that often, but only because I almost always travel very light. In this case there was no avoiding it. I'm starting a job down here and needed my gear. Like I said, I'm employed by an airline. That means I am not really working for an airline at the moment....I am on a leave of absence trying to get away from a disastrous way of life....that of the airline employee. Boy there's a lot of irony here that could be explored, but I'm just going to go away now.
Anyway, be careful with your Pelican's as I think they have steal me written on them sometimes. By the way, I actually think the bag was taken off of the belt in Miami, as I didn't arrive as early as my luggage. The other bag was already in the office waiting for me.