Greetings and welcome to today's random thought.
It was about 11 pm when we arrived home from the airport last night. My son always brings his change whenever there is the slight possibility of a vending machine appearance. Despite his knowledge that airport vending machines are extremely overpriced, he was prepared to convince us that he needed candy at 9:00 at night. Once we arrived at the baggage claim area where our guest's luggage would arrive, he found a vending machine over in the corner but was met with this...
Nothing! Not even gum at the bottom. Suffice to say, he was disappointed. He and I decided to wait by the area where people come out but unbeknownst to us, there were other flights arriving at the same time at nearby gates. After about 10 minutes we got a call that the plane had arrived but was still not at the gate. At this point in time the daughter said she was tired so she and I found an empty seat (far away from the arrival area but next to the baggage claim) and she fell asleep on me. So I had 15 - 20 minutes to do one of my favorite things, namely people watching. I kept myself occupied with a game of "guess which one is the passenger and which one is there to pick them up." This is usually an easy game since the passengers either have comfortable clothes or are cranky since they just traveled in uncomfortable clothes for 3 hours. It is also fun to watch people greet each other who appear to be very close or have not seen each other in a long time (or both). After a few minutes though, that usually wears off and then everyone plays the "I think that might be my bag" roulette as the luggage comes up piece by piece. It is amazing to me how many people don't remember what their luggage looks like after having to have just seen it 4 hours ago when they checked it in before leaving.
Eventually, our plane and then our luggage arrived. Once we pulled the first bag off of the carousel, it has this sticker on it...
I had never seen this type of sticker before. Seems like it should be bigger or more colorful to call attention to itself. Either way, this might be the reason it was one of the last bags to come off the roulette wheel.
This afternoon and evening the wife and I are taking off for a date night and some Christmas / birthday shopping as we plan to make full use of the free babysitters we picked up at the airport.
Thanks for reading my Random Thoughts.
Jon
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