So I am in America and once again I am luggageless, and pretty soon I’ll be homeless too! After canceling my Boston connection from New York yesterday, Continental Airlines then put me on stand-by for later flights, but due to storms many of them were cancelled. In the end though I was lucky enough to get to Boston while many people were left stranded and sleeping in the terminal at Newark.
Once in Boston I didn’t bother waiting to see if my luggage was on the carousel. Instead I went straight to the lost-luggage office and made a report, then upon returning to the carousel I learned what I knew would be the case, my luggage was “delayed.” With my hand luggage and a complimentary bag of toiletries I left the airport.
The airline tell me that the luggage will be delivered to my friend Anne’s house this afternoon, hopefully in time for me to change and have a shave in time for the wedding dinner after the wedding rehearsal. Otherwise I’ll be going to that looking like an escaped convict.
However, what looks set to make life that much more interesting is that I appear to be marooned in Houston when I arrive there on Monday. I was under the impression that I was staying at Shae’s for a couple of so nights from the 2nd, but I just spoke to Shae and he’s in Virginia and won’t be back in Houston until the 4th! So not only do I look homeless at the moment, I might very well soon actually be homeless! I’m thinking of getting a shopping cart when I arrive in Houston and making that the ‘hobo’ part of my trip. All I have to do is develop a tweak and perfect my paranoid mumblings.
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Lost luggage found in Houston dumpter
Can I have my luggage now please
Wrote the following comment on Jun 28, 2007 at 8:37 pm
You still won’t fit in. You won’t smell bad enough. You should learn NLP and NLP people into giving you a bd for the night.
Wrote the following comment on Jun 28, 2007 at 9:20 pm
wow. i can’t believe this happens to you every summer. maybe you need to wear the *correct* baseball cap and get some sympathy from an airline rep.
Wrote the following comment on Jun 28, 2007 at 9:27 pm
Simon.
I am so sorry.
I am an idiot.
However…if you’re going to be homeless in Houston, I can give you some directions to some street corners that I *KNOW* get good homeless donations…
Wrote the following comment on Jun 28, 2007 at 10:26 pm
too funny. i love that pic of the luggage in the dumpster. but i thought you knew enough pep in this city to bunk somewhere – or just go to arlington street – maybe you can sleep with the black and white dog and his red ball!
Wrote the following comment on Jun 28, 2007 at 10:43 pm
Oh my gosh! You have the worst luck. Well, the good news is, you’ll have plenty of company out there on the streets. And competition.
Wrote the following comment on Jun 29, 2007 at 7:21 am
LAWL!
im sry…but seriously…LOL!
love ya.:D
Wrote the following comment on Jun 29, 2007 at 5:10 pm
You didn’t want to stay at Shae’s anyways, he lives in the boondocks and has kids that wake up too early.
Wrote the following comment on Jun 30, 2007 at 1:01 pm
Simon you are welcome to stay with us. We’ll even pick you up at the airport. Just tell us if we need a place to stay. Would rather you not be homeless.
Wrote the following comment on Jul 1, 2007 at 2:41 pm
ryc: Nice response. But my point of the post was that Hooters or the theme of Hooters is not an acceptable “Family” Restaurant. And the reference to Porn as a so-called gateway drug of Sex Addiction was just for humor. I agree with you on the disgusting content of Hard Core porn and I think that is an example of how maybe an addiction would progress until a person is looking at like say “Captive girl does mules” or something. There has to be an audience for that stuff right??? I am not saying all people who view porn would become hopeless sex addicts, it was just a comment about how if you knew your teen son was looking at stuff like this how would you react. I didnt over react….I just played it off as Porn is stupid and unrealistic. And I do agree w/you on the Mom looking at it w/her son. Thats just stupid parenting…very stupid and warped.
Homeless still? You should have come to Dallas. Houston International sucks! Wait until you meet those lovely TSA people, I was almost detained for calling a guy an a-hole there! They confiscated my perfume because I didnt have it in a Ziploc Baggie. So I said, “What do I look like a drug dealer a-hole?” Yeah….ummm they kept my perfume and the pilot waited for me. Me and my big mouth LOL.
Wrote the following comment on Jul 1, 2007 at 7:42 pm
heya! I have a family reunion in new braunfels next weekend. even tho the river is flooded and shut down we will still be at a lakehouse for the big get-together. i’ll miss ya!!!