The Blunder @ the airport

Never in my life had I encounter this and for something so dramatic ... it gotto be my Mom's handiwork.

We just clear custom and I went to help get some duty free stuff for my friend. She started questioning me who is it for, why am I getting it and etc ... So I shoo her away... tell her to make her way to the Belt area first as she tend to walk rather slow ... (back in Hong Kong, I felt that the local snails there can crawl faster than her but thought it might be rather mean to tell her and we might end up sending more money on taxi ... hehehe), I would catch up asap ...

Then I kanna a overly helpful cashier who helped the customer in front to change her stuff to something else better ... she even wanted to help me change my stuff too but it turned out to be not what I wanted ... a lot of time wasted there n then

Rushing to the baggage belt, I was surprise to see that she actually move all our luggages onto a trolley .... kinda impressed that she did it on her own (not that our luggages are that heavy anyway) ... she asked me to do a count of the items and they were right ... so we rush out of the final custom area ... partly because I was carrying a lot of dvds and didn't want to kanna checked + divert to MDA to purchase unncessary stickers

partly (actually mostly) ... my Mom can't wait to hug her grandson

true enough ... that little bugger actually jump and hug my Mom ... ( that points scoring young punk is a threat to my inhertiance ) .... it was so drama and done in front of a big crowd that I quickly push the trolley away ... didn't want to block the enterance too ...

so while waiting for them to have their dramatic reunion, I tried to restack the bags and our posters as some items are more fragile than the others ...while restacking, I realized something ...

One of the bags don't belong to us !!! > My Mom took the WRONG BAG !!!

Tah ta da DAHHHHH ...

The important lesson I learnt from that night was that even after coming out of the Airport custom ... you can make your way back. It's just that it's a bit troublesome and far to actually re enter the belt area ...

You have to actually go to the airport crew entrance, change a passport for a pass to re enter ... and then take the wrong bag for X-Ray!

I wonder what if the wrong bag belongs to a drug trafficker or bomb terrorist? Won't I be in a big unnecessary trouble to re enter in that way? Of cos the police that was escorting me chose to ignore my questions (I was still in the mood to ask such unlikely scenario since this unexpected event already occurred) ...

Reaching back to the belt area ... I wonder if I should just place the wrong bag down with the other bags that had already been taken off from the belt or should I try to attempt to look for the owner ... Lucky I didn't have to think about it for too long and Lucky the owner turned out to be a young lady ... attempted to apologize to her but she didn't respond at all ... and her male companion was giving me the eye and mumbling some unpleasant stuff ... felt rather wronged but what can I do ??? (hint to readers ... feel free to console me via the Comments Button)

This is something I never personally encounter before (even tho the airport police told me its a frequent occurrence) ... to be so blur until take the wrong bag felt really remarkable ... But like I told our German supplier who told us that his wallet been pick pocketed before ... such unexpected occurrence (be it abit troublesome) would be a great conversation piece in the future.