Finally got back to uni at 11pm BST after setting off at 11am.
I had to take a car to Edinburgh, a plane to Nyköping, a bus to the train station, a train to Stockholm, a train to Uppsala and finally a bus to here.
Just nothing was going well for me. Right now I feel completely like hell and I suspect its this stress making me all ill.
Anyway. A point.
Airlines.
Last night packing was the usual malarky- trying to get the bag under 20kg, weigheing and weighing time after time until we manage it.
I get to the aiport though and...the buggers have only gone and changed the maximum to 15kg. So a lot of stuff was removed, not just the things I deemed acceptable to take out if we came to be over 20 (non-school books, vodka) but even some other things. I definatly saw my best pulling shirt and my nice new jeans removed.
Right behind me in the line though was a very fat German couple. And I mean huge. To say the bloke was 3 times my size would be a understatement.
These people though have just the same weight limits as me despite weighing twice as much themselves.
Now, when I was weighing my bags it was really silly stuff, taking out one can of pek made it half a kg lighter and other crazyness. To get the scales to weigh it for me I had to hold the bag and stand on the scales then subtract my weight from that. The bags are really trivial stuff compared to people.
So my proposal- all people get 100kg inclusive with their flight.
You go over this you pay extra.
This 100kg can be luggage, it can be fat, your choice.
I have seen this idea floated other places and I like it.
The tears in this thread are delicious.
Uh, did you remove the stuff or did they do it for you? :huh:
Fine by me. I'm only 5'2" and can lose weight easily enough, but I'm thinking Viking and his kin may be a bit tougher sell.
Quote from: MadImmortalMan on August 21, 2009, 06:17:30 PM
Uh, did you remove the stuff or did they do it for you? :huh:
Yeah it was me, ambiguous wording. I meant there was some stuff that I was iffy on whether I'd be able to take it or not (20kg) but with 15 lots of things I had absolutely planned to take had to come out.
Luckily I had my parents with me at the time so they just took it home.
We gotta have a pic of you in your pulling shirt Joe.
Could you have payed the excess baggage charge?
Might have been worth it to save you the hassle.
I just drove to Biloxi and back in a day. Not fun.
Quote from: Tyr on August 21, 2009, 05:08:05 PM
So my proposal- all people get 100kg inclusive with their flight.
You go over this you pay extra.
This 100kg can be luggage, it can be fat, your choice.
:mad:
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on August 22, 2009, 01:25:15 PM
I just drove to Biloxi and back in a day. Not fun.
:nelson:
What the fuck possible reason do you have to drive to Biloxi?
Quote from: Fireblade on August 22, 2009, 08:24:10 PM
What the fuck possible reason do you have to drive to Biloxi?
The LORD told me to do so in a dream.
Quote from: Fireblade on August 22, 2009, 08:24:10 PM
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on August 22, 2009, 01:25:15 PM
I just drove to Biloxi and back in a day. Not fun.
:nelson :
What the fuck possible reason do you have to drive to Biloxi?
Biloxi Blues