There was a recent news story about airport terminal baggage theft. It seems to be so easy to walk up to the luggage carousel and lift a bag undetected. Not all airports have security guards at the exits, matching claim tickets to the bag in question.

They recommended using bright or unusual colors, since the popular black bags could be removed, unnoticed by the owner.  One reporter joked that might use your mother’s old Samsonites from the 1960’s.

That would be mine. The set of 3 pieces were given to me by my parents as a high school graduation gift. They reinforced the message that all of us had heard since we were teenagers.

Eighteen and Out.

After high school, we were to be out of my parents’ home. It was college, or military service, our own business, whatever.

My father never had a role model in his own childhood…