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I Lost My Bag in A Parking Lot…But Which Airport? February 11, 2008

Travelling light…that’s my motto. If you give a bag to an airline these days it will probably end up having a better holiday than you, so why put up with the hassle and only take what you can carry.

Saying that, I left my one carry on bag recently not in the clutches of airport baggage handlers but in an airport parking lot…the poor little thing didn’t even make it to the terminal building. If you think this seems a little wierd then let me elaborate.

I started the day in the Birmingham Airport Parking lot. well, not literally started my day…I had just flown in from Atlanta and was looking for my hire car. I was in a rush because I had booked the flights to save money and was now stuck with an hours drive to get to Luton where I would drop off the hire car in Luton Airport Parking before catching my onward flight to Spain…with me so far….good

I found the car and got on my way. As usual the M1 was a bumper to bumper experience at 80 miles an hour with regular 0 miles an hour stops for road works. by the time I got to Luton I was running late and dumped the car at parking and rushed into the terminal.

One glance at the board told me I was in trouble. The flight had been cancelled. I ambled up to the Airline desk only to be told that there were no more flights out of Luton that day and if I wanted to get to Valencia before tea-time I would have to take a trip to Stanstead where there was a flight leaving in 31/2 hours.

I took it. I had been travelling for so long now I thought…well I didn’t actually think anymore…I just kinda grunted and automated my limbs in the general direction I was going.

I got on the bus to Stansted and fell asleep. I was awoken outside Stansted airport parking. I stumbled off the bus and squinted at the general direction of the terminal building and finally had a thought…I might just get home…might…

It wasn’t until I was standing at the check in counter I realised I had no baggage.

I know at the beginning I said that I don’t carry bags…but this was the one small bag, the carry on…it was gone..

But where…