12 hour days?
By 'eck you were lucky. We used to have to get up an hour before we went to bedâŠetc, etc etcâŠ
© Some old geezers
12 hour days?
By 'eck you were lucky. We used to have to get up an hour before we went to bedâŠetc, etc etcâŠ
© Some old geezers
Luggage Manufacturers & their designers.
Goddam they piss me right off.
Letâs start at the basics. MOST airlines have rules on Cabin Baggage - they may vary on the actual weight that can contain (from the current Emirates 7Kg bullshit) to the EasyJet/Ryanair - whatever you can carry.
So, for a frequent flyer you know 55x40x25 is the mantra.
Once upon a time you could buy a wheelie bag with - 2 wheels. Yes the bag is small and not normally 30Kg so it only needed TWO wheels. Those wheels were more than 55% inside the bag. So that actual extra internal volume actually was enough to contain 7 days worth of clean undies & socks OR a carton of Duty Free Smokes
Today. Not ONE manufacturer makes a wheel bag (anywhere you can buy easily) - they ALL have 4 wheels - so they go off in random shopping trolley directions and smash my ankles every time I walk through Duty Free.
THEN the wheels are on holders that drop down OUTSIDE the case so immediately you lose around 5cm of height - basically 10% of your packing volume.
Those wheels are then all made out of and attached with pissy cheap pieces of plastic, and so RyanAir offer you to put it in the hold for free. And of course those pissy wheels break. I have 2 wheel wheelie bags that have probably done close to 1.5 million flying miles, my last two 4 wheel Delsey & Samsonites? Lasted 2 flights.
THEN you get stuck at a check in desk behind some Pikey who is in tears because ALTHOUGH the dimensions of her bag are correct she did not understand the SIZE OF THE WHEELS factor and now faces leaving her stuffed camel behind in some Godforsaken Airport 50 miles from anywhere and thinks that telling her life story will help.
And then we get on to the BIG CASES. Again - 4 wheels - wtf? I am sure it is helpful if you are Tyrion Lannister - weaving through the airport the bag will stay on all four wheels. But if you are over 5 foot 6 inches guess what? You either have to bend double to reach down to the handle OR guess what? You end up pulling it along on two wheels.
And of course those two wheels are 1) cheap plastic shit so BREAK when you have 23Kg 2) Are an absolute fucking nightmare to pull along a cobbled street in Europe on your way to your Air BnB O)R if you try and step off a curb into a taxi 3) are about half the diameter of two wheels which compounds 1 and above.
So you put your four wheels into the Hold, arrive at your destination and bingo - They Broke your fucking wheelie bag.
Airline says tough shit use your insurance. Insurance says No Problem send us the bill and they refund you the amount LESS your $100 Excess - so nothing. IF you are flying with Emirates they say - no problem - choose a new bag - which has 4 wheels - sign here. Spend 3 hours in Baggage Services.
Then you fly home.
And the wheel gets broken.
Next up, Saucepans
Fine Rant @dubai_phil
First world problems.
Phil has baggage.
Just seen JayRod score for West Brom - he looks like Ronaldo!
Hopefully he resorts to the player we knew fairly sharpishâŠ
To be fair he was given about 30 minutes to size up his shot.
I bought a cabin bag just like you describe that only couple months ago. It was 2 wheel. I had no problem on Ryan Air.
It was this one rip
Ah yes Bear but it also has those two stand alone âfeetâ at the front and the actual wheels are exposed.
Now itâs perfect for Ryanairing, but on that trip when youâve found 4 damned fine bottles of plonk straight from the Vinyard & go check it in the holdâŠ
Anyone who has a wheelie cabin bag should just fuck off. What can you possibly have in that tiny bag that is soo heavy, that it requires wheels.
If it is that heavy, then how the fuck are you going to get it into the overhead locker? Clean and Jerk?
They should be banned and therefore my travelling would not be blighted by idiots who forget that their footprint now extends two feet behind them whilst they tow their shitty bags of crap around the airport.
Ah that was next weekâs rant.
The sleep deprived transit passenger with wheelie bag at Dubai Airport vs the Pikey Ignorance of Stansted.
Just to add fun, try out the Shopping Mall Trolley Walk.
Load a supermarket trolley (donât get a wonky wheeled one) select a line of tiles that you can follow in a straight line and then walk at a steady gentle pace. (This adventure can be greatly enhanced by having something like a brush or mop out the front OR your partner filming your journey)
It NEVER fails - nobody ever moves out of your way - on an average weekend trip to Carrefour at Mall of Emirates here we get 2 or 3 morons walk straight into the trolley. Some of them arenât even on their phones.
Working at home today for some quiet time to record all the visits I go on. Yes, yes I did work. In fact from 8.45 until 7pm with a short break for some toast for lunch. This afternoon the musician neighbours below were practising their trumpet whilst some local building site had itâs pneumatic drill and an angle grinder going.
Looking at the clock and thinking do I have a couple more glasses of wine?
Itâs coming up to 8:30, but have to be up at 4am to take teenage mutant to Gatwick for a holiday in Denmark with his Explorer Scouts (fascist paramilitary organization).
Mrs C_S will be snoring in her pit.
Fuck it, whereâs the corkscrewâŠ?
If Mrs C_S is already in her in bed, she could take him. Set her alarm and leave a note explaining.
Canât see it being a problem. Sheâll probably applaud your ingenuity.
I can see one or two teensy flaws with your plan. Castration and divorce being two possible outcomes. Otherwise great ideas. Keep them comingâŠ
Oh ok. I thought my only mistake when i done a similar thing, was waking her at 2am with my great idea.
Single for a reason
Think you hit the nail on the head there fella.
The neighbours are having a christening/1 year old birthday party. Itâs been going since about 1pm. They did let us know there would be some laughing and reggae. Which is fine for the afternoon but itâs now creeping towards bedtime and no let up, at points the (not reggae) music keeps being turned up. I am sure the 1 year old is into the dancehall and the cackling of his or hers parents friends and family.
Window 10 has just decide to do a mega update on my computer and I have a deadline - 1 hour later and the bastard is only on 32%
microsoft are a bunch of tossers - when I click the cross in the corner that does not give you permission to crack on.
Wankers