I have to apologize. See…the McConville’s are the reason all of you have to pay extra for your bags when you fly (we’re probably ALSO the reason you have to pay for your drinks now on international flights....but that’s a different story altogether). I took my mom and sis, (along with the contents of their respective homes) to the airport on Saturday. Without exaggeration…pound for pound…mom’s suitcases will cost 7x more to fly to Ireland than my mom.
Which means loading the car to go the airport takes a strategy and a shoehorn (as well as someone else’s car). People start rolling out suitcases and you don’t know if they’re EVER going to stop. “Honestly, people – we call those things garment boxes, not suitcases. In order for it to be a carry-on…you technically have to be able to carry it.” I keep telling mom they sell cigarettes in Europe – but I am pretty sure one of those bags is a mobile discount tobacco store.
Getting every suitcase into the car is like a game of Tetris…there is ONE combination that is going to work and you are going to spend 45 minutes and 300 calories loading and unloading the car until you come up with that combination. But at least everyone is standing right behind you offering their helpful advice.
And don’t forget…this blog entry will self-destruct upon subjects return to US airspace…
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it's called the WORLD WIDE WEB for a reason Maeve! you can't hide these kinds of things.
See...I TOLD you she had an alert set up!!!
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