What arbitrary and ridiculous places airports are! Check in for a budget airline and they don't want to weigh of even look at your hand baggage, check in for a relatively nice airline and suddenly we are quibbling over a few hundred grams. 7.9kg is ok but 8.0kg is not (unless of course you have a laptop in which case you get more... I didn't inquire how much). 30kg is ok but 32kg is not. How much "not ok" I hear you ask, well, not ok to the tune of 70 dollars per kilogram. So back we go to try the packing game once more, the waterproof jacket has its pockets filled with yet more books, my trousers are stuffed with batteries, cards and guff till they are falling down and I decorate myself with one more fleece. Once more into the breach dear friends, once more... Now everything is fine, the asinine rules have been satisfied, the hold luggage is whisked away and the hand luggage is fully rule compliant for about 20 minutes until security is passed and everything can be safely put back in it.
And to what end? To what benefit? What comes next? Presenting each passenger who boards with empty bowels 100 bonus air miles? Letting me have 10 grams extra luggage if I bring a helium balloon with me? I'm not actually angry, I'm quite entertained, it helped that the pretty young check-in girl seemed almost apologetic. Well, that's enough tempting fate to smite me for one day. Time to face security and continue my journey.
If you are reading this in the UK then I'm looking forward to seeing you again soon :)
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