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On a recent trip overseas, I had some\u00a0weighting<\/em><\/span>\u00a0to do upon landing at the airport, so decided( after the usual skirmish with sweat, suede and swear words) to be an\u00a0inno scent<\/em>\u00a0<\/span> bystander next to the baggage carousel as it aimlessly(and somewhat harmlessly) went around in circles.\u00a0Everything, Everywhere <\/em><\/span>is about the\u00a0circular economy<\/em><\/span>( not the Oscars<\/em><\/span>,\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>by the way!)<\/em>. So, here\u2019s the\u00a0360 degree<\/em>\u00a0<\/span>on it, motivated by well, you guessed it-\u00a0bags of time<\/em><\/span>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The absolute nonchalance with each and every piece of baggage gets treated once it finds its (p)<\/em><\/span><\/strong>ride of place <\/em><\/span>on the carousel has convinced me that the carousel is the only place in the world that is completely agnostic to brands.\u00a0Tumi, Louis Vuitton, Delsey, Tommy Hilfiger, Samsonite, American Tourister, VIP, BOSS, Open Story, Away, Echolac, Safari<\/em><\/span>\u2026all came (and went) alike. The message was loud and clear.\u00a0Rest in Piece<\/i><\/span>\u2026till such time your owner( or an imposter) gets a handle on you! Oh there goes my\u00a0Safari<\/em><\/span>\u00a0and I am not able to get hold of it. So is it\u00a0TATA <\/em><\/span>to the\u00a0Safari<\/em><\/span>? That you can take the rough with the smooth?<\/p>\n <\/p>\n I realised that the carousel is like a dating app<\/em><\/span>– everyone is waiting for their perfect match, in all tinderness. Where your suitcase is playing hard to get. And watching other people’s bags go by is unadulterated entertainment. And do not be deterred by the SOS(Sea of Sameness)<\/em><\/span> which means the black bag that you think is yours, has 47 other clones. We can call it airport roulette. <\/em>While all the time you are consoling yourself that <\/span>” my suitcase is just taking a few victory laps before coming to me<\/span>“.<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Nowhere will you see a better study in contrast. The bags taking its own sweet time to get to where it ought to, unabashedly relaxed, clinically unrepentant, approaching arrogance ( I am the\u00a0BOSS<\/em><\/span>\u00a0here, you better give me the\u00a0VIP<\/em><\/span>\u00a0treatment), do not intrude on my\u00a0hammock<\/em>\u00a0style existence<\/em><\/span>. On the other side, the owners: anxious, impatient, irritated, worried,\u00a0chaos personified.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n The bags I tell you love drama (and some gymnastics as well). Every now and then they bring you to the edge as they salsa, spin and swirl but manage to stay on top of the carousel. That in the process they knock off a few socks from ankles( sorry, that\u2019s the\u00a0Malayalee<\/em><\/span> in me) and aundies (aunties for the uninitiated) is a different story. Really edge of the seat stuff!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The area surrounding the baggage belt is actually a\u00a0medical practitioner\u2019s<\/em><\/span>\u00a0delight. The ideal place to diagnose the following including but not restricted to :\u00a0Slip disc, Parkinsons, Blood Pressure, Hypertension, Colour blindness<\/em><\/span>\u2026<\/strong>is it\u00a0blue\u00a0or\u00a0green? (And the real owner sees\u00a0red<\/em><\/span>\u00a0in the bargain). If you don\u2019t mind, could you please help me offload the bag(read cargo<\/em><\/span>) asks the lady in red with an unabashed sense of entitlement<\/span><\/em><\/span>\u2013 I travelled light this time-it\u2019s just 87 kgs<\/em><\/span>( any more and she would have had to hire a cargo plane). Though she swore, it was not a corpse in the bag. And we took her sword for it.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Do you think the carousel is an ideal candidate for\u00a0acute nausea<\/em><\/span>? Imagine going around in circles, hour after hour, day after day- where does it begin? And where does it end? Flight or fight? Journey to nowhere begins here. Methinks its happy to be a spin doctor!<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n So the next time you travel, carry\u00a0XS<\/em><\/span>\u00a0baggage.\u00a0Xtra\u00a0Small<\/span>. Before you get ideas. Give the carousel a break. Unless of course you want to see some Delsey<\/em><\/span>, all at sea!\u00a0BOSS<\/em><\/span>\u00a0it makes no sense\u00a0TUMI<\/em><\/span>! Weight- I will ask\u00a0TOMMY<\/em><\/span>\u2013 maybe\u00a0HILFIGER<\/em><\/span>\u00a0it out! Or should it be\u00a0Facebook<\/em><\/span>? They have pretty good offices with the carousel, I dare say.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n On a recent trip overseas, I had some\u00a0weighting\u00a0to do upon landing at the airport, so decided( after the usual skirmish with sweat, suede and swear words) to be an\u00a0inno scent\u00a0 bystander next to the baggage carousel as it aimlessly(and somewhat harmlessly) went around in circles.\u00a0Everything, Everywhere is about the\u00a0circular economy( not the Oscars,\u00a0by the … Continue reading “How about some B(r)agging rights?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1871"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1873,"href":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1871\/revisions\/1873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"