British Airways SMS correspondence

Of course our journey didn't end at Heathrow Terminal 5, and lots of other stuff happened, but three days and some ciders later I did manage to bring everybody home in one piece. But alas - fate had one more trick up its grimy sleeve. When the baggage reclaim belts stopped moving, whose suitcase should have gone missing, but mine. Just what I needed...

That's me. I always look like this.

Now these things happen, and there's not very much you can do about it, so you might as well smile. I have to admit however, that over the next two days of waiting for my luggage I lost my temper just a little bit, which is to blame on the nice SMSs British Airways kept sending me - apparently to keep the misery of my toothbrush and t-shirts gone missing always freshly in my mind. Here are two nice ones:

"*-GUTEN TAG IHR GEPAECK SOLLTE HEUTE AUF DEM FLUG BAXXX UM 11UHR00 ANKOMMEN-." absender BA

This was Saturday afternoon. Joyful as this message was, the one that came a day later was almost flirtatious in tone:

"*-IHR GEAPAECK IST LEIDER NICHT ANGEKOMMEN/GERNE TEILEN WIR IHNEN SOBALD WIE MOEGLICH WEITERE AUSKUENFTE MIT. VIELE GRUESSE-." absender BA

I don't know what your most memorable SMS are, whether it was the end of a tedious love affair, or the insufficience of your cash funds, but this last one will definitely stay in my memory as the sweetest computer generated message ever...