Uncle Roger's Notebooks of Daily Life
My life is, to me, ripe with frequent challenges, occasional successes, spontaneous laughter, adequate tears, and enough *life* to last me a lifetime. To you, however, it surely seems most pedestrian. And therefore, I recycle the name I used previously and call this my Notebooks of Daily Life. Daily, because it's everyday in nature, ordinary. These conglomeration of events that are my life are of interest to me because I live it, perhaps mildly so to those who are touched by it, and could only be of perverse, morbid curiosity to anyone else. Yet, I offer them here nonetheless. Make of them what you will, and perhaps you can learn from my mistakes.
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Monday, June 13, 2005
Don't put your name and address on the outside of your luggage where it can be read easily. If you do, you're simply telling everyone where there is a home that will be unoccupied for a while -- ripe for the robbing.
This is less of an issue if you're dessed as a businessman carrying nothing more than a briefcase (indicating it might be just a day trip) than it is if you're a reasonably well-dressed family (as in, probably has decent TV's, one or more computers, etc.) with enough baggage to last a month. Even the luggage tags that only show your name are not perfect, unless your name is John Smith (or whatever the current most-common-name is).
What's best is a luggage tag which conceals all your information. Or, just put the info inside the bag itself. In this day and age, if your bag is lost, it's going to be searched. A letter-sized sheet of paper, inside the bag, with your name and address on it should be perfectly adequate for the purposes of dealing with misrouted luggage, but won't let the casual thief scoping out potential targets get a bead on your home.
If you can, put in your business address (assuming your coworkers will admit to knowing you and won't steal your stuff). That way, even unscrupulous airline employees (not that there are any, I'm sure, outside of management) won't know where to hit.
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