Excess Baggage

With gas prices soaring to all time highs airlines are finding new ways to cut cost and add revenue. One of those ways is charging travelers excess baggage fees. While policies differ by airline, it doesn’t seem that any are charging for any and all luggage that travelers tote with them. All passengers need a little baggage, and airlines understand that, it’s when you start adding on these heavy additional suitcases, that things become a problem and therefore, they charge you.

I have found that by dating older men a certain amount of baggage comes with the territory. The occasional ex-wife, a kid here and there, and whatever emotional baggage they’ve been toting around since their high school love broke their heart. So when a sprite young twenty year old kept coming my way this weekend I decided to give him a chance and smiled back and did the requisite flirting which ended in a number exchange. He was cute enough, decent job, and twenty (ack! a younger man!) so really how bad could it be.

So when he dropped the “I feel like I should tell you something up front” bomb, I wasn’t too terribly worried. How much baggage could he possibly be caring onto this flight? “I have a two year old daughter.” WTF?!?! If I was a Delta stewardess I’d be politely telling him “yes, sir, that is fine, but please know you will be charged for the handling of this excess baggage.”

This all brings me to wonder: how much baggage is too much baggage? Is it too much to ask that a twenty year old guy not have a luggage rack that includes baby mama drama? Apparently, it just may be…