Welcome to the baggage carousel.

vector-background-with-suitcases_M10LC08_If you have ever checked luggage when flying somewhere, you know the joy of waiting on your suitcase at the baggage claim carousel. Maybe it is because most of us are conformists but most of the suitcases look the same. They are all black or dark green colored with very similar features, the only way I know mine is that the zipper is broken on the outside pockets so I look for the open pockets as they come out from the back. Usually it is bag after bag of the same but on every flight I have been on there are the two or three odd balls. Once it was a giant trash bag, 30 gallon at least, with a roll of duct tape holding it together. Another time I saw what looked like reminisce of a cardboard box with shirts and pants spilling out between the twine which held it together. I do not watch most folks pick up the luggage, but I always watch to see who picks up the oddity. While it is not always the case but most of the time the owner matches the bag. In the case of the trash bag the guy, if found frozen in a snow bank, would have been carbon dated to prehistoric man. Most of us may be far from dragging my knuckles on the ground anymore, but if our baggage was required to look like our life, I think we would see a lot more twine and garbage bags coming off the plane.

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