I corresponded today with one of the exhibitors from last week’s Paris conference. He wrote, “I hope that you had a safe flight back. We were stuck outside the terminal for over an hour because of a unattended bag, which they blew up outside the terminal. Besides that we had an easy flight home.”<\/p>\n
I replied, “Did you get to see the bag get blown up, at least? That would’ve helped mitigate the delay a little bit.”<\/p>\n
Alas, no: “Unfortunately I did not get to see the bag get blown up, but I did<\/em> get to see the remnants. They just dumped the contents on the sidewalk: some clothes, lots of rice, and spices.”<\/p>\n * * *<\/p>\n It reminds me of the baggage carousel when we got back to Newark. Some luggage came out, but there was also a small pile of panties rolling along. I said, “Wow! Did someone get raped in the cargo hold?!”<\/p>\n It had been a long day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I corresponded today with one of the exhibitors from last week’s Paris conference. He wrote, “I hope that you had a safe flight back. We were stuck outside the terminal for over an hour because of a unattended bag, which they blew up outside the terminal. Besides that we had an easy flight home.” I … <\/p>\n