Welcome to Dallas, now please find your bags Sir!
Trip Start
Dec 26, 2006
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Trip End
Dec 25, 2007
Dallas,
United States
Tuesday, December 26, 2006
I think you can guess the next bit, we disembark the plane and go to collect baggage only to find the blue backpack is nowhere to be seen. Visions of a lone bag circling the Honolulu terminal or any of the other 51 destinations American Airlines flies to quickly entered my head. And the general lack of any idea by the AA staff did not make me feel much better. With about 5 hours to the next trip to Calgary I spent the next three hours going from baggage carousel to carousel for every LA flight in the off chance my bag was in the airport...somewehere, anywhere. And three hours after departure it did arrive in another terminal from an LA flight...and in one piece. At this point in time the lack of sleep was making my thoughts of ever entering in the Amazing Race (sponsored by American Airlines) less and less likely
01 - Sunset at Dallas Airport, but wheres my bags?
.Next stop Calgary but not before going through customs again in the US...about as enjoyable as poking your eye out with a burnt stick, in fact pass me the burnt stick now. The deadly bomb-making products in my toiletries bag were identified as American crew Hair Wax and Mitchum roll-on deodorant, the no-scent variety. My pits without deodorant would have had more successs in bringing the plane down than the product itself. One whiff of those suckers and the oxygen bags would have dropped from the roof, that is if AA actually have oxygen bags on the plane...I have my doubts! Why, well they have NO LIFEJACKETS as you are somehow meant to put your arms under the seat cushions and use these as flotation devices. After seeing the oversized asses sitting on those seats from LA to Dallas I knew those puppies had no flotation left in them. So it was lose the Crew and deodorant or go re-check my carry-on luggage through as baggage, which I did and then proceed through customs and straight to the first food stand I saw, hello Chicken Burrito from Taco Time. And you know what, it tasted so damn good.
Bring on Calgary!
