I'm BACK!

After nearly three weeks of nonstop travel, I'm finally back and internet-enabled. Yahoo! But I have to say, after being in a plethora of airports, and given the amount of travel that I do on a semi-regular basis, what I don't get is how people don't know what their luggage looks like.

While I know that airports around the country (and world, no doubt) post warning signs of "baggage look-alikes," come on, people. It's not that hard.

On the last three flights that I've taken (in a week and a half), I've seen my suitcase picked up-- count 'em-- 5 times. As in picked up, taken off the carousel and then put back when the unsuspecting (translation: dumbass) traveler realizes that they've commandeered the wrong bag. Now, I must digress and scold myself for checking the bag in the first place. A cardinal sin for the gal who had luggage lost on both an outgoing and incoming flight-- for the same trip; and also for the, what I consider myself to be, seasoned business traveler. But alas (*sigh*), sometimes it is unavoidable.

In any case-- I could tell it was my bag-- from 20 feet away, even without seeing my bright, colorful Hawaiian luggage tag. And yet, it was still pulled off the carousel-- two times on yesterday's trip, by two different people. And I can't even count how many times I was shoved out of the way by people, bent over, chasing bags around the carousel, trying to ascertain whether the bag was theirs.

ARGH.