Stone Soup by Jan Eliot for April 09, 2013

The French way to boost consumer spending!!

(sarcasm) c’est fantastique

I don’t think it’s hit yet. Look @ their faces.

It’s unfair to draw your characters so dopey!! Let them at last demand the I don’t know, 400 Euros per person that the airline has to pay for those instances… – then they can go shopping for some black and checkered drab.Oh and btw: "trekman58: brrrr… scary thought.. that wouldn’t even be mutton dressed as lamb that would be .. Nope, they’ll find the bags all right.

Happened to me, in Paris quite a few years ago. Got the bag a couple of days later. Extremely unlikely that more than one bag from the same people get lost though. (especially now when they don’t sort the bags by hand any more).

Question…Is it true, I heard somewhere, the French back in 19##-don’t-know-when. France had a hard time getting enough men to join their army because most of their countrymen didn’t want to join the their army. -So they set up the French Foreign Legion to make up for their lack of troop by getting unsuspecting tourist, mostly men, drunk to the point they all pass-out for hours in popular tourist bars all over the country.-Than ship them off (while they were still asleep/passed-out) to French Foreign Legion training-camps… and since the camp was in the middle of nowhere in the desert or some unknown remote region, the unfortunate souls there don’t know where they are so they can’t leave or escape.

I agree, there should be some $$$ so they can get some clothes.

This is the same artist who all but blows off a week every summer with the “You gotta love August” strips, but she can’t let these characters actually have a fun stress-free vacation? C’mon Jan…

Joan gets her Paris wardrobe!

Wow! What an excuse for a shopping trip in Paris! Be careful not to exceed the duty free limit, though.

Seems if they lose your luggage they ought to waive the duty free limit. If they don’t have enough money to buy much they’ll be wearing the same clothing their whole trip and have no way to wash it.

Look kn the bright side. Airlines usually give money to the people who lost their luggage. So she has an excuse to shop

shop till you drop!!!!!

Also medicines. Nothing worse that being far from home and not have your medications.

zut alors!

@Zero-Gabriel said, about 5 hours ago

“Also I do recall the movie “Second Hand Lions” where Hub and Garth were shanghaied and conscripted into the French Foreign Legion…”

Sadly, Hollywood sees no value in reality. Hard to say whether they want reality to be different, or whether they are just too lazy to do research and prefer to make it up as they go along.

I once took a two-week museum course in Los Angeles. The airline lost one of my classmate’s luggage. Two weeks later he flew home with the luggage still missing.

You just know that their luggage is in Peoria.

@Zero-Gabriel:

Maybe you’re thinking of the way they used to complete crews for ships. Buy drinks for sailors just arrived in port and when they come to they are at sea again.

It happened to my wife and I in Rome. Took 4 days and when I went to get her bags, someone picked my pocket and stole my wallet.

This hits very close to the truth. A few years ago, I was flying frequently between Atlanta and Charles de Gaulle-Paris on A— F——-. In eight trips, I had my bags lost at one end of the other for three of them. The other five trips, they were lost at BOTH ends.

This is why you have a change of clothes in your carryon or backpack