How much does 4 kilos weigh? This is America, for God's sake. Is that a pair of shoes, or 3? I'm standing at the check-in counter for Swiss air, asking the guy clacking away at the keyboard how many pounds I need to shed for him to take my bag on the plane. He has no idea, and repeats his earlier statement that I'm 4 kilos over.
I figured it might be 20-30 bucks for an overweight bag, which would be ok. But, no. One hundred-ten extra dollars is the fee. No way. So it was layering time. 3 t-shirts, a sweater, one hoodie, and a pair of shoes later, I negotiated the successful "induction"of my bag (as the Swiss call it, in their crazy Brit-leaning dialect of English), and we were on our way to security.
Next stop, the promised land*!
*as in, the shake shack carryout in terminal 4
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