The "Hazards of Travel" Story

It was an ordinary day. Finally got our suitcase back. We left for vacation with Barry and Karen W. on January 29. I already wrote about the airline losing Barry's bag on the flight to St. Martin, but it didn't end there. On Saturday, February 5th we returned home. Minus everyone's luggage. US Airlines did it again. Our flight was supposed to leave St. Martin a 5:50 PM. By 5:00 PM it wasn't even in St. Martin. It had left Philadelphia late because of the weather. I can understand that because we saw the reports on TV. We finally departed St. Martin at 6:30 PM. Not bad turnaround time to clean and fuel the plane. But, our connecting flight back to Baltimore was going to be tough to catch. We arrived in Philadelphia with 30 minutes to get through immigrations, customs, and security again before our flight left. Then I found out that the terminal for our Baltimore flight wasn't even in the same building. We did manage to get an electric cart to take us most of the way and they held the plane an extra half hour for us. Too bad they didn't tell the luggage people about the connecting flight. When we got to Baltimore our luggage was nowhere to be found. Finally filled out a claims form and headed home. We had one large suitcase and Barry and Karen had two. They told us they would be delivered within 48 hours. Yeah, right! Well, Sunday about 4:00 PM I got a call from someone who was delivering suitcases. They were in Maryland, but would be to my place sometime before 11:00 PM. Would I be up they wanted to know. I will, I told them. At 10:00 PM there was a knock on the door and there was my luggage, delivered by a man and his wife who do that for a living. "How do you get to Holtwood?" they wanted to know. Seems that is their last stop and the home of Karen and Barry. I called Karen and Barry to tell them their luggage was on the way. Don't go to bed, yet. Can you guess who I won't be flying with anymore? It was another extraordinary day in the life of an ordinary guy.