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Dec 26 06: today's expression of barely contained fury
I have returned to the city, courtesy of US Airways. Also courtesy of US Airways, I have returned to the city without my suitcase. Based on nothing more than the generally useless nature of the customer-service folks with whom I’ve dealt thus far, I’m fairly convinced that I’ll never see it again. You know, I can replace most of that stuff: the underwear and socks; the gifts received from family members; even the bite plate, which will set me back a few hundred dollars that I don’t presently have in order to delay the I’m-told-it’s-inevitable loss of my teeth.
But if I’m truly out the sweater I’ve been working on for over a year, and which I had very nearly finished? Bad things will happen.
EDITED: Okay, so the useless automated system that lets you give them the bag’s Locator Number, so that they can tell you that they still haven’t found it? It’s only operational from 8AM until midnight. Despite the fact that I have yet to encounter any indication whatsoever that there are any actual humans staffing the thing in any way whatsoever. Buh?
And furthermore… I used my five hundredth blog post to gripe about this? Fie. It coulda been something witty and/or insightful, but no. It was lost luggage. Fie. I hold US Airways responsible for this, too.