Olio - The Travel Edition
I brought just the right amount of clothes. Not too many. Not too few. I was Goldilocks with the suitcase and I'm feeling fairly smug. It's a new suitcase, bought to fit American Airlines tiny overhead bins and avoid a charge for bringing a change of underwear along for the ride. Personally, I'd go for each passenger and her baggage standing on a scale, weighed together. If we're both over a certain limit, then charge us. I fail to see the logic in paying $50 to check a bag when it and I together don't come close to the number of pounds the gentleman whose flesh was falling into my seat this afternoon was carrying. ***** One day, I'm going to arrive at the first gate off the hallway to baggage claim. It was half a mile to the first moving walkway this afternoon at Detroit Metro; I amused myself by reciting "I can't believe I am able to walk this far" over and over and over and over again. I was lurching (a little) and hitching (a littl...