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Your character is heading to a fancy destination wedding, and their luggage gets lost along the way.
Write a humorous story about how they solve the problem. Keep this a light, engaging, amusing story about your character's plight.
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Julie and Andrew stood at the baggage claim carousel, their eyes scanning the sea of suitcases. But as the last bag circled around, their hearts sank. Their luggage was nowhere to be found.
“Oh no, Andrew,” Julie exclaimed, her voice tinged with panic. “Our clothes, our gifts for the wedding… everything is in those bags!”
Andrew tried to remain calm, though his mind was racing with thoughts of a...
Mandy stared at the luggage carousel spinning slowly in front of her. The completely empty carousel. She looked up at the sign. It quite clearly said “UA flight 155 from New York”, her flight.
She was the last one there. Everyone else had been greeted with cries of “Aloha!”, decked with fragrant flower leis, gathered their luggage and left. Mandy had barely scraped enough cash together for ...
Of course, they were getting married in Ibiza. E-bee-tha, I hated that they pronounced it like Spanish people. Sorry you aren’t allowed to say it like that if you were born north of Andorra.
I did not want to go. If there’s one thing I hate more than posh people is drunk posh people. Fine, let’s look at the positives. There will be food, presumably good since we’ll be in Spain, and free booze. A...
Oh boy, oh boy, a trip! A big trip! I’ve been waiting so long.
Wow, that’s a lot of stuff. Do you really need all of this? You know the airlines have a weight limit, right? Sure you can put your back into it and get the zipper closed, but really?!
57 lbs! 57 lbs! I told it was too much. Now what? Are you going to pay the $100 overweight fee? Or maybe lose the fourth pair of shoes? Maybe you don...
Nancy is running to the airport. She accidentally ran into somebody.OMG I am so sorry sir Said Nancy.The random stranger said it’s okay why are you such in a rush looking up and down at Nancy.She was wearing a dress with flowers blooming in the wind running throughout the airport with her luggage, trying to get to check out, but in the back of her mind, she thinks of them out, but she ran into th...
Auntie Dottie gasped. Mrs. Treadwell, mother of the bride, wavered on her heels. My cousins, Tonya and Amanda, squealed. Under the crown molding and gold chandeliers of the Austen room, the guests went silent.
It didn’t start when Amber Lynn cursed me out my name when my flight got delayed out of O’Hare and my luggage including my overpriced bridesmaid dress was lost. I had to rent a car, grab a...
“So that’s what happened,” Janey said. She took a long sip of Chardonnay. The sun was setting, and a cool breeze off the ocean seemed to blow all the stress away.
“Uh-huh,” Debbie, bride-to-be, said. She, too, took a long sip of her matching glass of wine.
“Well, those are the breaks,” Debbie said. “I don’t care if you’re not wearing the right dress. I am just glad YOU didn’t get lost.”
The t...
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