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At my home airport, I was in a rush to meet the CTO for dinner after flying half way across the world. I didn’t have time to grab my luggage, so I just left it.

At my home airport, I was in a rush to meet the CTO for dinner after flying half way across the world. I didn’t have time to grab my luggage, so I just left it. I was home, so even if it got lost, I didn’t care in that moment. My luggage showed up at my door the next morning. Since I was flying fairly regularly, I did the same thing again when I landed at home. Sure enough, my luggage showed up at the door the next day. I wasn’t charged anything. It was magic. I did this for years (about 6 times), until one day I caught the guy dropping it off. He apparently worked in lost luggage and my house was right down the street from his house, so he just brought it over each time to be nice. I felt like an ass, but also, I thought there was some magic going on. We had a good laugh about it, but I waited for my luggage after that.

hombre_fatal 3y ago
Reminds me of the CollegeHumor skit video where a layabout husband excitedly shows his wife a magic box in the bedroom where he puts his dirty clothes and a day later they appear clean and folded in his drawer. The box, of course, is a laundry hamper.
petrikapu 3y ago
But why? I'd be tossing your luggage to river if I had a change
toyg 3y ago
That sounds like the beginning of a slice-of-life movie... Withinboredom and the luggage guy became great pals, travelled the world together, started a business, met their spouses... until something dramatic happened, the link was severed, and now Withinboredom longs for the times they spent together, underlining how fleeting existence is, how every day is precious, etc etc.
- finite_depth 3y ago
  Tom Hanks stars in: Personal Baggage
  - m463 3y ago
    He really does do movies like that, doesn't he? Stuck in the airport in the terminal, stuck on a remote island in castaway, even chasing decaprio in catch me if you can...
    - toyg 3y ago
      I mean, you could say he started his career stuck in a grown-up's body (Big, 1988)...
    - js2 3y ago
      He has a long and varied career. He's made over 50 movies. Maybe half a dozen fit that description? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Tom_Hanks_performances https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Tom_Hanks_performances
- suid 3y ago
  Reminiscent of the plot in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lunchbox https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lunchbox. A meet-cute with the famous Bombay Dabba-Walas (lunchbox delivery service) accidentally messing up a delivery, and leading to a correspondence and later a meeting between an unhappy housewife and a lonely widower.
  - toyg 3y ago
    I've actually seen this! Hated the ending.
  - sho 3y ago
    > A meet-cute OK. That's the second time now. I feel like in the last 48 hours, "meet-cute" or "meetcute" has been introduced as a New Word and everyone got the memo but me.
    - solsane 3y ago
      Ok but can someone explain what this means
    - TylerE 3y ago
      It’s not new. It’s been a thing in writing about rom coms since at least the early 90s, if not earlier. Edit: Wikipedia cites a first usage in print of 1941, which implies it was already a common trope at the time: The earliest example given by the Oxford English Dictionary is from Anthony Boucher's mystery novel The Case of the Solid Key (1941), in which a character says "We met cute, as they say in story conferences."
      - js2 3y ago
        Also, everyone should watch Roman Holiday because honestly they never needed to make another romcom after that and the meet cute is the sweetest you'll ever see.
      - lloeki 3y ago
        Ha, lucky 10k + frequency illusion. https://xkcd.com/1053/ https://xkcd.com/1053/ https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency_illusion https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency_illusion Never heard meetcute before, so, today I'm a lucky 10k as well!
corbezzoli 3y ago
What door? How did they know your address? I don't enter my address when flying. Maybe my miles card has it, but that feels far removed from the baggage handler's computers.
- ornornor 3y ago
  Luggage tag?
  - withinboredom 3y ago
    Not to mention that checked bags have a luggage tag on them linked to your ticket.

hombre_fatal 3y ago

Reminds me of the CollegeHumor skit video where a layabout husband excitedly shows his wife a magic box in the bedroom where he puts his dirty clothes and a day later they appear clean and folded in his drawer. The box, of course, is a laundry hamper.

petrikapu 3y ago

But why? I'd be tossing your luggage to river if I had a change

toyg 3y ago

That sounds like the beginning of a slice-of-life movie... Withinboredom and the luggage guy became great pals, travelled the world together, started a business, met their spouses... until something dramatic happened, the link was severed, and now Withinboredom longs for the times they spent together, underlining how fleeting existence is, how every day is precious, etc etc.

finite_depth 3y ago
Tom Hanks stars in: Personal Baggage
- m463 3y ago
  He really does do movies like that, doesn't he? Stuck in the airport in the terminal, stuck on a remote island in castaway, even chasing decaprio in catch me if you can...
  - toyg 3y ago
    I mean, you could say he started his career stuck in a grown-up's body (Big, 1988)...
  - js2 3y ago
    He has a long and varied career. He's made over 50 movies. Maybe half a dozen fit that description? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Tom_Hanks_performances https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Tom_Hanks_performances
suid 3y ago
Reminiscent of the plot in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lunchbox https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lunchbox. A meet-cute with the famous Bombay Dabba-Walas (lunchbox delivery service) accidentally messing up a delivery, and leading to a correspondence and later a meeting between an unhappy housewife and a lonely widower.
- toyg 3y ago
  I've actually seen this! Hated the ending.
- sho 3y ago
  > A meet-cute OK. That's the second time now. I feel like in the last 48 hours, "meet-cute" or "meetcute" has been introduced as a New Word and everyone got the memo but me.
  - solsane 3y ago
    Ok but can someone explain what this means
  - TylerE 3y ago
    It’s not new. It’s been a thing in writing about rom coms since at least the early 90s, if not earlier. Edit: Wikipedia cites a first usage in print of 1941, which implies it was already a common trope at the time: The earliest example given by the Oxford English Dictionary is from Anthony Boucher's mystery novel The Case of the Solid Key (1941), in which a character says "We met cute, as they say in story conferences."
    - js2 3y ago
      Also, everyone should watch Roman Holiday because honestly they never needed to make another romcom after that and the meet cute is the sweetest you'll ever see.
    - lloeki 3y ago
      Ha, lucky 10k + frequency illusion. https://xkcd.com/1053/ https://xkcd.com/1053/ https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency_illusion https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency_illusion Never heard meetcute before, so, today I'm a lucky 10k as well!

corbezzoli 3y ago

What door? How did they know your address? I don't enter my address when flying. Maybe my miles card has it, but that feels far removed from the baggage handler's computers.

ornornor 3y ago
Luggage tag?
- withinboredom 3y ago
  Not to mention that checked bags have a luggage tag on them linked to your ticket.