Word: duffel
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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...