The other Thursday, when I went to the GR airport to pick up my sister-in-law Karol, I found that she was already off the plane and waiting by the baggage claim carousels.  Unfortunately, nothing was happening.  Then, after what seemed like an eternity, the lights started flashing, the buzzers started buzzing and the belts started moving.  Great!!.

When the first bag came out of the shoot, there was a crowd waiting for their luggage.  But then, one by one, all of the bags disappeared along with the crowd.  All except for us.

There we stood, waiting, looking at the empty carousel as it went around and around hoping that that one last bag would pop up from down below.  But, it didn’t.

Finally, when the carousel stopped turning, we concluded that her bag was not going to arrive any time soon.  So, we stopped at the counter and filed a lost bag complaint.

By Friday morning, her bag had been located.  It was in Philadelphia but they were going to send it to GR right away.  So, we waited and waited and waited some more but no bag.

When we returned home at 11pm, there was a message on the answering machine.  The bag had arrived in GR but since they don’t make home deliveries after 10pm, they would get it out to us first thing in the morning.  Great!

At 1:30am, the phone rang.

Now, calls at that time of the night are always unsettling.  It is either bad news or some drunk calling.  So, I was apprehensive when I answered the phone.

But, to my surprise,  it was the luggage person and he announced that the bag would be delivered in the next half of an hour.  And sure enough, at 2am, the bag was delivered to my door.

I guess when the say first thing in the morning, they are referring to am and not daylight.