Introducing Adi the Small Suitcase

 

Let me tell you a story about luggage. 

When Dada travels hither and yon to do these training programs about glass, he has to take a specific case of tools, samples, and so forth. Glass being glass, it's not light. Weight requirements vary from airline to airline. An experienced traveler is aware of these facts on some levels, but life can still throw some curveballs, things get forgotten, and reality steps in to make things more interesting.

For instance, a certain traveler began a trip to multiple countries on Airline A, which has a weight requirement of 25 kg per bag. Two bags may be carried. 

Airline B has a 30 kg total weight limit for economy class luggage. 

You begin to see the problem. (Unless you're like me, who had math trauma flashbacks as soon as anything named A is compared to anything named B and numbers are thrown in. Then my brain cowers under a table and sucks its thumb for awhile until things settle down.)

Back to the story. Dada's fracture kit bag alone is 20 kg.

He informed me via text that he's allowed to carry extra weed in the carry-ons, but not in the bag. I clarified that he probably meant more weight and he confirmed I was right. He then told me he'd bought a cheap carry-on bag (orange, above) that he stuffed to the max. His huge personal luggage was practically empty. The funniest part was that there was a high probability that he'd be asked to put his heavy carry-on bag below the plane with regular luggage anyway because of overhead bin space or lack thereof.  Things that make you go hmmm.

So enter Adi the Small Suitcase. Dada's excellent driver in Indonesia bears the name of Mr. Adi. I figured in honor of him keeping Dada safe through what I heard was crazy traffic all week, amidst families of four (including infants in arms) riding  the same scooter together and so forth, we'd christen the cute little suitcase after him. 

Now I'm realizing those are unfortunate initials...