The Magical Japanese Art of Luggage Forwarding

Re:The Magical Japanese Art of Luggage Forwarding by withinboredom on Thursday October 26, 2023 @06:04PM (#38032304)

At my home airport, I was in a rush to meet the CTO for dinner after flying half way across the world. I didn’t have time to grab my luggage, so I just left it. I was home, so even if it got lost, I didn’t care in that moment.

My luggage showed up at my door the next morning.

Since I was flying fairly regularly, I did the same thing again when I landed at home. Sure enough, my luggage showed up at the door the next day. I wasn’t charged anything. It was magic.

I did this for years (about 6 times), until one day I caught the guy dropping it off. He apparently worked in lost luggage and my house was right down the street from his house, so he just brought it over each time to be nice.

I felt like an ass, but also, I thought there was some magic going on. We had a good laugh about it, but I waited for my luggage after that.

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Re:The Magical Japanese Art of Luggage Forwarding by toyg on Thursday October 26, 2023 @06:32PM (#38032530)

That sounds like the beginning of a slice-of-life movie... Withinboredom and the luggage guy became great pals, travelled the world together, started a business, met their spouses... until something dramatic happened, the link was severed, and now Withinboredom longs for the times they spent together, underlining how fleeting existence is, how every day is precious, etc etc.

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Re:The Magical Japanese Art of Luggage Forwarding by finite_depth on Thursday October 26, 2023 @06:58PM (#38032724)

Tom Hanks stars in: Personal Baggage

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Re:The Magical Japanese Art of Luggage Forwarding by m463 on Thursday October 26, 2023 @07:23PM (#38032919)

He really does do movies like that, doesn't he? Stuck in the airport in the terminal, stuck on a remote island in castaway, even chasing decaprio in catch me if you can...

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Re:The Magical Japanese Art of Luggage Forwarding by toyg on Thursday October 26, 2023 @07:50PM (#38033119)

I mean, you could say he started his career stuck in a grown-up's body (Big, 1988)...

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Re:The Magical Japanese Art of Luggage Forwarding by js2 on Friday October 27, 2023 @12:53AM (#38034835)

He has a long and varied career. He's made over 50 movies. Maybe half a dozen fit that description?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Tom_Hanks_performances

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Re:The Magical Japanese Art of Luggage Forwarding by suid on Thursday October 26, 2023 @07:13PM (#38032848)

Reminiscent of the plot in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lunchbox. A meet-cute with the famous Bombay Dabba-Walas (lunchbox delivery service) accidentally messing up a delivery, and leading to a correspondence and later a meeting between an unhappy housewife and a lonely widower.

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Re:The Magical Japanese Art of Luggage Forwarding by toyg on Thursday October 26, 2023 @07:47PM (#38033106)

I've actually seen this! Hated the ending.

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Re:The Magical Japanese Art of Luggage Forwarding by sho on Thursday October 26, 2023 @11:24PM (#38034372)

> A meet-cute

OK. That's the second time now. I feel like in the last 48 hours, "meet-cute" or "meetcute" has been introduced as a New Word and everyone got the memo but me.

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Re:The Magical Japanese Art of Luggage Forwarding by TylerE on Thursday October 26, 2023 @11:30PM (#38034400)

It’s not new. It’s been a thing in writing about rom coms since at least the early 90s, if not earlier.

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Re:The Magical Japanese Art of Luggage Forwarding by js2 on Friday October 27, 2023 @12:49AM (#38034804)

Also, everyone should watch Roman Holiday because honestly they never needed to make another romcom after that and the meet cute is the sweetest you'll ever see.

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Re:The Magical Japanese Art of Luggage Forwarding by lloeki on Friday October 27, 2023 @02:39AM (#38035397)

Ha, lucky 10k + frequency illusion.

https://xkcd.com/1053/

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency_illusion

Never heard meetcute before, so, today I'm a lucky 10k as well!

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Re:The Magical Japanese Art of Luggage Forwarding by toyg on Friday October 27, 2023 @09:12AM (#38037986)

But it was largely limited to professional storywriters, Hollywood / Broadway types. The internet spread their lingo much more widely, and terms like that have become more common and fashionable in recent years.

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Re:The Magical Japanese Art of Luggage Forwarding by alanfalcon on Thursday October 26, 2023 @11:45PM (#38034463)

Welcome to the Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon. Now go watch The Holiday (2006).

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Re:The Magical Japanese Art of Luggage Forwarding by solsane on Friday October 27, 2023 @08:05PM (#38045536)

Ok but can someone explain what this means

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Re:The Magical Japanese Art of Luggage Forwarding by kdwikzncba on Friday October 27, 2023 @01:40AM (#38035082)

The lunchbox, is that the movie they watch in Seinfeld, which Elaine hates?

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Re:The Magical Japanese Art of Luggage Forwarding by actionfromafar on Friday October 27, 2023 @02:22AM (#38035282)

No but she definitely would have hated it

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Re:The Magical Japanese Art of Luggage Forwarding by corbezzoli on Friday October 27, 2023 @05:20AM (#38036305)

What door? How did they know your address? I don't enter my address when flying. Maybe my miles card has it, but that feels far removed from the baggage handler's computers.

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Re:The Magical Japanese Art of Luggage Forwarding by ornornor on Friday October 27, 2023 @05:44AM (#38036467)

Luggage tag?

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Re:The Magical Japanese Art of Luggage Forwarding by withinboredom on Friday October 27, 2023 @06:45AM (#38036876)

Not to mention that checked bags have a luggage tag on them linked to your ticket.

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Re:The Magical Japanese Art of Luggage Forwarding by hombre_fatal on Friday October 27, 2023 @10:17AM (#38038746)

Reminds me of the CollegeHumor skit video where a layabout husband excitedly shows his wife a magic box in the bedroom where he puts his dirty clothes and a day later they appear clean and folded in his drawer.

The box, of course, is a laundry hamper.

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Re:The Magical Japanese Art of Luggage Forwarding by petrikapu on Friday October 27, 2023 @04:29PM (#38043490)

But why? I'd be tossing your luggage to river if I had a change

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