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...have local blockmates. Not lucky enough for DO #1, go for the next best thing. Have an unwieldy duffel full of ice skates, bike helmets, and humidifiers? Not quite sure how to fit Herman the Houseplant into the Leverett basement? With some negotiation you can probably get the kid who’s been bragging about being a local all semester to leave this stuff in his basement for the summer. DON’T forget to thank his mom profusely...
...after last week’s volcano eruption in Iceland made it impossible for him to fly to Germany, Kaplan instead ended up in Dubai—where the daytime temperature reached 100 degrees—with “a whole duffel bag full of warm weather hiking clothes,” he said...
Faced with these after-the-fact fare hikes, it's no wonder that people get ticked off and drag everything they own onto the plane: laptops, briefcases, suitcases, knapsacks, duffel bags, shopping bags, body bags, guitars, plants, animals, minerals and vegetables. And those are just the first 12 passengers to board. The airlines board people either by rows, back-to-front or according to an algorithm that is devised to spread people and their stuff around the plane in an orderly manner. Except that an algorithm has never rushed the gate the moment a flight is called, because...
Mehta says he almost had his own accident involving Woods recently. While Mehta was driving through the parking lot of a local athletic club, Woods suddenly hopped out between two cars with a duffel bag, forcing Mehta to slam on his brakes to avoid hitting Woods. "He [Woods] stops, looks up at me and grins, like, 'Ha, ha, sorry,' " Mehta recalls. Whether or not Woods can eventually laugh off his latest traffic mistake depends on whether Florida investigators decide he really doesn't have anything more to tell them...
...starts with a lost bag - the black duffel Delta Airlines lost on my recent trip from Kansas City to New York City after a nightmarish day of travel: a canceled flight on a perfectly clear morning; a cumbersome rerouting through Atlanta; arrival at LaGuardia after 6 p.m., more than five hours late. When my bag failed to show up, I faced yet another missed connection: to the bus I needed to catch for the two-hour ride to my final destination. So rather than wait in line at the lost-luggage counter, I took a phone number to call...