Mixed Nuts: Will the luggage saga ever end?

Quotes

"There is no better way to thank God for your sight than by giving a helping hand to someone in the dark." - Helen Keller
When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, "I used everything you gave me." ~Erma Bombeck
You may never know how strong you are, until being strong is your only choice.- Unknown
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow' ~Helen Keller
Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.
Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened."- Dr. Seuss
"Life is 10% what happens to you, and 90% how you react to it."
"God doesn't give children with disabilities to strong people: He gives them to ordinary, everyday people, then He helps the parents to grow stronger through the journey. Raising a child with special needs doesn't TAKE a special family, it MAKES a special family."Author Unknown
I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go – Abraham Lincoln
Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each new year find you a better man. ~ Benjamin Franklin
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as if everything is a miracle - Albert Einstein
The journey of a 1000 miles starts with a single step
Sometimes in the middle of an ordinary life, love gives you a fairy tale
Where there is great love, there are always miracles - Willa Cather
The Difficult we can do immediately, the impossible takes a little longer
Doing what you like is freedom. Liking what you do is happiness
There are two lasting bequests we can give our children. One is roots. The other is wings.
Be the change you want to see in the world
Don't tell God how big the storm is, tell the storm how big Your God is..........
Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it
Fall down seven times - get up eight - unknown
Despite our differences, we sink or swim together
Life may not be the party we expected, but while we are here, we might as well dance
"The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones." -Confucius

Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Will the luggage saga ever end?

I am thinking.........no.

It is Tuesday night. Mat landed on Friday. And we STILL don't have his luggage. He is getting ready to come back from his second trip and his suitcase is still on vacation.

We have called everyday, and every day we are told the bag is coming THAT DAY. And we wait, and 10pm comes (their last bag drop off time), and no bag.

But today......today takes the cake.

I got home from work and there was a message on our answering machine. It said, "This is United Airlines in Rhode Island. I have a bag for Mathew Pletcher and I have no idea what to do with it. Please call us."

Okay. She doesn't know what to do with it? Is this her first day working at an airport? It has been sitting at said airport for 4 days (according to American Airlines). I would like to call her back and ask her this, but alas, I don't get her. I get someone else.

United Airlines - after spending 20 minutes of me trying to explain our luggage problems, tells me that I need to call American Airlines back and tell them to call United and work out how to get our luggage.

Uh........no way did she just say that. So - I had to get grumpy. I explained that I have already talked to American Airlines several times and they assured me that United would be delivering our luggage on Sunday. And then on Monday. And now it is Tuesday. So - what she could do for me is - do her job. I would wait on the phone and she could call American Airlines and sort it out, and leave me out of the middle. Because - really, it isn't our fault that our luggage is not where it should be, now is it?

So - she made the call and put in a request for American Airlines to get the bag and then for us to get it. It sounded like she didn't do anything, but at least I tried.

So - just to make sure, I did end up calling American Airlines. Because - I just needed to make sure she did what she was supposed to do. I get a very nice woman on the phone at American Airlines and she said they did indeed get the message. She couldn't help but laughing about how many airlines our luggage has been transferred to, and that we still don't have it.

Yeah, REAL funny.

Then - here comes the best part - she really started to chuckle and said "you aren't going to believe this. Your luggage is being put on a 6:30pm flight from RI to Hartford Connecticut. Then when it arrives in Hartford, it will be transferred from the United Airlines flight to an American Airlines personnel, and we will deliver your bag after 9pm".

I see why she is laughing. I said "you have GOT to be Kidding ME". She says she wishes she was.

I can tell you this - right now it is 8:30pm. I have my doubts we will be seeing the bag tonight.

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I don't have any pictures of the kids - I am sorry! With company and Mat being gone, and it doing nothing but rain for 3 days, I haven't had a lot of motivation.

So, I am putting the pictures of Mat's trip to Salt Lake City Utah in below. He took some really great pictures, and I told him I would put them on the blog for him.

All kids are doing great. Aunt Betty is visiting us right now and they are having a great time with her. Arlington has her last Destination Imagination practice tomorrow after school. she is really going to miss it. She really had a great time with it.

So - that is all. See you Saturday!