Post-travel Reflection Gifts

Airport emotional baggage.

"Think we'll still make happy hour?"

"You shouldn't have stopped to go to the bathroom, sir - you were late claiming your luggage, so we raffled it off."

It had been a while, but he had finally come home.

"And so another trip comes to an end...with family brought closer together by a shared experience."

Well, you and I know it's our home, but our 'smart home' doesn't know it's our home

Limerick Airport

Excess Baggage: Sooner or later all those vacation bills come due.

'Welcome back, Mary. How were the vacations?'

"Let's go on vacation, get disappointed, complain about prices, read terrible novels, buy trashy souvenirs, miss the dog and look forward to coming home."

"Home is where the WiFi is."

"Here we use the email term 'out of the office', not 'away lazing on a Spanish beach, without a care in the world.'"

'Am I glad to be back - austerity's gone mad out there!'

Airport

Gates A-C: Johnson, Davis, Potts, surprise me!

John was bck from extended leave, but he hadn't quite got in the swing of things yet.

'Gee, these are great, are they dishwasher proof?'

"I've managed to arrange cover while you're on holiday. Janet has cancelled her honeymoon and John will probably be able to have his operation next year. You just go off and enjoy yourself."

Excess Baggage: For many of us 'Roughing it' means staying at a hotel without room service.

Psychiatry. I'm not fooling anybody but myself? Well, that's a start!

Pirates on holiday.

Mommy and I are back from New Zealand. How was your trip? It was great. I got to see where the Hobbits lived. And there was green everywhere. Then we had to go. They wouldn't grant you and your mom refugee status? No. We tried Antarctica after that. We tried real hard to fit in. But the penguins just would not accept us as part of their society. Tell your mommy Trump's only going to be president for eight short years.

"Yes, it's half past two - is that all?"

"It sure is great to be back in France."

Baggage Arrivals - Lone suitcase, woman crying 'Oh Darling! It's been so long...'

'Honey, I'm home!'

'The train due to arrive at platform 2 will now arrive at platform 19.'

'It's good to be back, Ms. Norton.. did anything important happen while I was away?'

Monster Souvenir

Now Arriving

"You simply must tell me about that African Vacation you took!"

Excess Baggage: Perhaps you should have washed those clothes before returning home from your overseas vacation.

"It's great to be back. I was going a little stir-crazy working all across the country from home."

"Hi, I'm the new you."

Lost Baggage - 'Do any of these look like yours?'