“Something you hope to never experience: your baggage gets lost.” So reads the copy on [redacted airline]’s ‘help’ page. The tone, that of a smug, knowing elder, does little to assuage my burning fury.
Though to my surprise—for I am not a woman known to take things in her stride—I’m not all that fussed about my lost luggage. I realise quickly that I am a sheep, and as soon as I discover half the airport has lost their luggage too, a great wave of camaraderie sweeps over me.
