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Luggage Update

Yesterday: baggage person tells me the luggage will arrive in the morning and it’ll take 3-4 hrs meaning I should expect it around noon.

Today 1pm: I grab lunch nearby just in case the luggage gets delivered. It doesn’t. I call the automated service and it says it’s with the delivery company and will arrive in 4-6 hours.

3pm: My friends and I go to midtown then up to lower Central Park. If the luggage comes, they’ll call.

5pm: Still no word. I call and automated service says as of 5:20pm, the delivery company has it and should arrive in 4-6 hours.

7pm: I call again and get a real person. They find out for me that it should be there in half an hour.

7:45pm: I call again and they said there was a delay and I should get my stuff in 20mins.

8:45pm: I call again and they say it’ll be there by 11pm. I have a dinner with a friend at 9pm and had I expected this, I would have bought clothes by now because I’m feeling nasty. Now I’m pissed. I get the delivery company’s number. I also ask how it takes them 10 hrs to deliver something (they told me it was on the truck by 10am). They said there’s a lot of bags but TEN HOURS?

9:30pm: I call the delivery company and ask them to deliver directly to the restaurant. They say they can’t change the address.

Midnight: I’m kind of resigned at this point but call again and they say they’ll be there within the hour.

12:30am: I finally get my luggage. There’s still a bunch of luggage in the van. It’s now 14 hours … I feel for the others.

I’ve never been happier to see my suitcase but I am not a happy camper.


3 Comments

Dear lord. It’s like the traveling gods hate you or something! I’m glad you FINALLY got your luggage back though.

Posted by Elea on 13 August 2006 @ 12am

So fucked up. This doesn’t make me feel particularly confident about the travelling I’ll be doing in the near future.

Posted by Jason on 13 August 2006 @ 3pm

They actually got it back for you?

You should be bloody happy man, every time my luggage has been ‘misplaced’, it’s either taken weeks for them to find.. or just vanished completely. (most likely in those cases, they just didn’t like me enough to look for it)

Still, traveling is entertaining enough to put up with the god awful service of the airline companies.. :)

Posted by Daniel on 15 August 2006 @ 11pm