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Mar 6, 2015, 6:14 am

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dilbertsdaddy

Join Date: Dec 2010

Location: SE USA

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Originally Posted by orca15

4D learned this the hard way last night as we landed in Richmond (diverted from Newport News) and the pilot announced "the plane is returning to ATL. You can get off here if you want, but the bags are going back."

4D was in shorts, coming from LAX. He chose this day to check bags because he "didn't want to carry around a jacket."
I gave him directions to the nearest 24 hour WalMart at 1AM so he could make his 9AM meeting. It was 40 degrees and dropping.

God Bless him, though...he dropped me off at PHF on his way to the hotel in his hastily rented car.

I hear ya! I have a co worker who spends way too much time at Walmart late at night. They actually do have some nice ties. Shirts, not so much! He checks AND books short connections.

My formula is 2+ hour connections and carry-on when going to work, 1- hour connections with checked bag when going home. Ain't been to Walmart at midnight yet.

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