ever wonder where all that lost luggage goes? no, not into a black hole in the sky that sucks your luggage out of airplanes, never to be seen again. today, on npr, i found out. there is actually a place in alabama where they collect all of the unclaimed baggage. i just imagine thousands and thousands of those black suitcases with the little wheels and pop-out handles that everyone seems to be dragging through airports filling the trucks. i always wonder how many people go home with the wrong black roller suitcase. everyone standing expectantly, watching the black bags go by. 'hey! that one! from target! it's mine!'...nevermind the fact that there are probably 50 target black bags on the southwest flight...excapt for grandma, who has tied a pink piece of yarn to hers...why does everyone want a suitcase like everyone else has?? you KNOW you're going to have to pick it out of a lineup of bags. why wouldn't you think to get someting a little distinctive?

check out the npr segment (it's the second one, after a very interesting story on tibet and china, which, if i was feeling like i wanted to think harder, i'd talk about)

and, unclaimedbaggage.com.

oh, and my bag is blue. :)