We had a large breakfast with my in-laws and then loaded up the car and set off for the airport.
We made it back from the holidays. This video was fun to make. (I recorded the bed music some time back.) #AShortFilmOfNoConsequence pic.twitter.com/XYCHoDIPxQ
— Kenny Smith (@kennysmith) January 4, 2017
We were early to the airport, which made it seem like a longer day than it really was, but everything went smoothly. The desk people at Delta were efficient. The first TSA person was humorless. The second one must have been new. The flight was easy, but for a bit of turbulence about halfway through.
One of our suitcases was destroyed by Delta. It came off the ramp with a wheel missing, and a big chunk of the frame gone too. The baggage claims folks took one look at it and said “Yep. Hang on just a second.”
They have a closet, the baggage claims folks, and they just reached in and gave us a new suitcase. It has tags on it with a giant price. A fake price, I’m guessing. A “here’s a new bag, now go away” fake price. There was no paperwork. And we were out in a flash after that. We caught a shuttle to the car lot. And the guy driving the shuttle caught us as we were leaving, did we leave a bag?
Yes, we left a suitcase. Turns out when you add an extra one at baggage claim you forget to add it to the calculus when you’re getting out in the cold and rain. But he noticed it and tracked us down just in time. Then the woman at the gate where you exit offered us waters.
Then the drive to the house, the unloading the car, placating the cat and unpacking. Dinner was frozen pizzas because we’ve been gone for forever. Laundry, finish unpacking and so on.
Now to plead with the cat to not keep us awake all night in her indignation. Tall order, that.
