Where’s my bag?
Have you ever experienced that?
You’re finally on the ground, the feeling has returned to your legs and now you have to go get your bags. After walking what seems like miles, closely following the other hundred or so passengers like cattle down the long and narrow corridors… you come across this large oval shaped turnstile. I still have yet to be the lucky person who gets the spot that is the closest to the shoot where all the bags come out.
I also want to know why I’m usually in the first group of people to arrive at the baggage claim belt but the last one to get her luggage??? But that’s a side point and probably a mute one at that!
Have you noticed that all the bags rolling around that thing all look alike?!!
When I worked for Holland America (best summer job ever!), I vowed never to purchase black luggage because everyone has black so I bought navy. DOAH! That’s the 2nd favourite colour out there! Since luggage is not cheap to change every time you find that your colour is now “the” colour… I learned through my many years of sorting left over and lost luggage at the Vancouver Pier, the ones that were all taken… were ones with those tacky, flashy pom-pom’s or shiny, florescent duct tape or large brightly coloured ribbons streaming from the handle. The ones left behind… were the plain, boring, undescript, everyday looking bags.
So the first time my bags never showed up, I couldn’t understand why. My homage to everything Canadian was on the side of that bag, from Duct Tape to Large Canadian flags!! But it does happen from time to time – and as annoying and stressful as that can be, having baggage insurance so I could get compensation from it was awesome!
The inevitable is going to happen! Have you seen that youtube video about the air carrier who ruined the guys guitar?? Those people handle your bags…. keep that in mind! 
I just remember now to always pack an extra pair of “you-know-what’s” & my travel insurance papers in my purse, cause you never know how long it’ll take before they find it… if they find it!
What’s your worst lost / damaged luggage story?
