On Monday, I found out that my luggage would be delayed even further, and would be arriving on Thursday. Then, yesterday Krish called me up and said it had already arrived! So I spent most of the day picking up my luggage.
You see, there is a big difference in the way lost luggage is handled here. They do NOT bring it to you; you have to pick it up (especially since it had to go through customs). Also, the amount of paper and ink they bring into this process is staggering. I can’t tell you how many times I had to sign my name. They keep bringing out new forms, filling them out, stamping the back, writing something on the stamp, having me sign it, having someone else sign it, etc. Finally, they told me to go to a wing of the airport that was a former baggage claim area that was all run down and full of bricks and other random stuff. In the very back were all the lost pieces of luggage, and I had to find it myself. Then more filling out of forms, then going to customs, more filling out forms, then finally I was free.
Oh, what glorious bounty lies within! Underwear! Shirts! Sandals! Elvis commemorative plates! Encyclopedia Brittanica set, A through M! My collection of shivs!
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