What Your Luggage Tells Others About You

A irports are fascinating          do not end up in carousels nor     places. In the midst of all     are they checked in, as they now   the rush is the enforced        fall into the hand-carry luggage   waiting. Waiting that people make     that can be wheeled (just) along   use of in all sorts of ways. One      the jumbo jet's tiny middle        of the things that I enjoy most       aisle, stored in the overhead      doing is looking at people's          lockers (again just), and whisked  luggage and imagining what they       out of the plane and the airport   do for a living, where they've        for the next boardroom meeting     been, where they're going to and      halfway around the globe,          what they might be like if I knew                                        them.                                 Another easy to figure out                                               luggage is the humongous backpack  There are two fertile points          carried by the globe-trotting      where I do my luggage musings.        young person out to experience     The first one is on departure as      the world on a tight budget.       I queue up to check in my luggage     Their backpacks are normally       with the rest of the throng. The      double their size and weight and   other is upon arrival as I wait       in them I would imagine would be   for my belongings in the luggage      blankets not usually provided in   carousel.                             cheap backpacker hostels and pots                                        and pans that might come in handy  There are the easy to decipher        when they run out of money and     luggages. One of them is the          need to camp out for the night.    standard airline sized black                                             luggage with wheels and               A hard one for me is the hard      retractable handles that most         case Samsonite luggage and the     corporate executives -ever the        person that comes with it. They    efficient time managers - carry.      seem to fall into all sorts of     Most of these time saver luggages     categories. They could be rich     widows who are going to Europe to     peering from the airport stickers  while away their time and need a      - from Athens to Zaire -           few Samsonite hard case luggages      plastered onto them. The owners    with combination locks to secure      seem to be as proud of their bags  their diamonds and pearls.            as the lady next to them with her                                        Louis Vuitton designer label soft  Or they could be just like me who     case with wheels luggage.          don't own any luggage for myself                                         but borrow from my Mother who         I reluctantly classed them as      happens to own a handsome-looking     retired seasoned travellers who    golden hard case Samsonite            are romantics at heart and who     luggage. I always think that they     would not trade their worn-out,    would be infrequent travellers        beaten luggages who each carry     like me because who would be sane     special memories, for the          enough to go more than twice a        classiest Louis Vuitton in the     year carrying a luggage that is       world.                             heavier than what you would and                                          could put in them, wheels             I must confess I have been         notwithstanding.                      tempted on a number of occasions                                         to strike up a casual              One type of luggage and owners        conversation with the owners of    that I spotted on my way out of       these hard to decipher luggages    Sydney to Bangkok recently stood      to confirm that my suspicions and  out from the rest however. The        mental cataloguing are correct.    set of bags were so worn out and      But who wants to spoil the         dated and were a "mix bag" (pun       wonderful world of fanciful        unintended) of soft imitation         fiction over the harsh reality of  leather orange vinyls cracking at     boring facts. Not me. And not in   the edges, as well as hard case       the midst of all the rush and      luggages with patches of green        enforced waiting in special        places called airports.                About the Author: Flor Bonifacio is co-founder of http://discount-luggage-samsonite.com/ - an online shopping store offering savings of up to 80% on name-brand luggage products. Source: www.isnare.com