mixedmath

Explorations in math and programming
David Lowry-Duda



This is the story of a bag,
who lost its owner and trav'led the whole world!
And though it left with lots o' tags attached,
She absolutely lost it, when she flied.

How many days would it be?
She arrived with hope, but found only tears.
The bag just disappeared,
so she flew in without any gear.
But she gets a call the next morning,
"Where are you, your bag is right here!"
Thousands of miles afar.
When she looks in the mirror so how does she choose?
The same clothes worn day after day.
When travelling homeward bound,
her bag seems never to be found.

This is the story of a bag,
who lost its owner and trav'led the whole world!
And though it left with lots o' tags attached,
She absolutely lost it, when she flied.

[loosely to "Story of a Girl"]

This is one of those strange stories - girl gets ready for flight from Atlanta to New York to Prague, girl ends up going Atlanta to Norfolk to New York to Prague, but bag ends up going Atlanta to New York to Atlanta to New York to Prague to New York to Atlanta to a warehouse to Atlanta to New York to Prague to Krakow... you know, the typical story. To be fair, the flight change through Norfolk as opposed to a direct to New York was last minute, and it makes sense for the bag to have been detained in New York. Perhaps it would make it on a later flight to Prague - such is life.

But nothing so simple occurred. The bag makes it to Prague, and when the girl notes that the bag should be sent to her home, one might expect the story to end. Instead, the bag ends up back in New York, then back in Atlanta. Of course, girl doesn't know this - it's all a big mystery (as she borrows friends' clothing, of course). Fortunately, a Delta worker named Carl (I think) finds this bag and its tag in this warehouse, looks it up and calls girl. Girl asks for it to be shipped to her - no problem, he says. Carl is very good at his job, I think, and I commend him. Unfortunately, the bag gets to Prague again and somehow whatever instructions were once somehow connected to the bag are lost. So now someone at Prague calls up girl - what do you want to do with this bag? So the bag goes to Krakow, but that's okay. That's where the girl found the bag.

A very logical route, one might say.


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Comments (2)
  1. 2011-03-30 Sarah

    i love you.

  2. 2011-03-30 davidlowryduda

    <3