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If there's one thing I really detest then it would be those baggage reclaim carousels at airports. They attract the British traveller like flies around a heap of excrement!
For example, I have just travelled to a Greek airport and I cannot believe the lack of intelligence that the travelling tourist displays when they are placed in front of the baggage belt.
...they would rather create a ruckus when they see their suitcase at the last minute
These idiots immediately crowd out the conveyor belt a full twenty minutes before the baggage starts to come through into the terminal building. They virtually stand on top of the damn thing so that when the carousel starts up everyone immediately jumps back a couple of feet. This of course means that people in the crowd behind them think that they can quickly jump into that space that has just been created. It's complete chaos I tell you!
Very few of them seem to realise that if they stood back at least two feet in the first place, they would actually see their baggage trundle down the belt. At the appropriate time they could then step forward, collect their suitcases and bags from the conveyer and leave.
But no, that sounds too much like common sense and they would rather create a ruckus when they see their suitcase at the last minute... just as it is about to pass them by. At which point they make a grab for their bags and of course miss. They then proceed to get dragged along with all the other suitcases into the path of the other idiots who are doing exactly the same thing.
They are just so stupid! Why can they not be sensible and a bit more organised, because they are just creating an eternal hell for the normal traveller. By the way, this exact same scenario happened again when I got back form Greece and arrived home at Manchester. Thanks folks!
By: Ian
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Also, how bloody difficult is it to spot your own bag ! It never ceases to amaze me how many people pick up and even get a case onto a trolley before relising its not theirs. There are hundreds of millions of people travlling this earth and billions of pieces of luggage and there are'nt massive odds of not seeing the odd 'same' looking bag but I have never once in my 20 years of travelling mistaken my bag or case.
Its simple, if you intend to travel and are blatantly incapable of identifying your luggage, stay at home...theres a good chap.
I get sick and tired of this, they should introduce some sort of armed guard to repel the annoying little turds.
Oh and FYI people, I'm not a bully and never use my size unless doing the above or barging through groups of teens stood in shop entrances.
...in answer to your second point. What I carry in my suitcase is all the lovely money I save by living up in the 'grim north' and not paying over-inflated southern prices!!! ;-)
I would happily bet my house that my overall quality of life is better than yours.
Losers.
Q. What do you get if you put 200 Northerners on a plane. A. 200 noisy illiterate pissheads!!
On holiday, Man United and Liverpool football fans change from their day Club shirt into the same evening Club shirt and believe that they are suitably dressed!!
SO what,
All I know is, They sit on THEIR brains.
What do you get if you put 200 southerner's on a plane??
Trouble, nothing but trouble.
I believe it is you without the brain. Check out your misuse of the word "they're".
I think you meant to say their instead of they are.
Nick