Hunchback trick

This is the painting I mentioned a while ago, and my photogenic pirate model holding it (Mario) who I also mentioned before.

From left to right, the housemates:
Mario - Calamario! (Spain)
Dolphjuan (Columbia)
Rorlrus
Jay - crab (UK, crab is a private joke)
Bluecia whale (Italy)
Luis/Octopuis (Germany)
Chris (UK, we couldn’t come up with anything good!)
Salmone! Simone (Italy)
Tunanna (Italy)
Sharklotte
Sting tayo (Theo, France / Germany)


I said goodbye to my work colleagues. Some cried! They gave me €60 amazon voucher and chocs.
After work I raced to catch my flight.

Angry lady: your case is 4kg overweight!! You have no time to pay. Take something out.
Out comes the file of life with all my heavy documents and my doc martins. 20.0kg. I’m amazing !

Once through passport control I realize my next hurdle. I am flying Ryanair. Their new cabin bag policy is you are allowed to take a puny rucksack. I now have a massive camera rucksack full of lenses, a Tupperware box of egg fried rice, waterbottle, MacBook in case, doc martins (i am already wearing walking boots) and the file of life. In the toilets I put the camera bag under my t shirt under my coat. Pregnant. Who could say otherwise? Stepping out of the toilet and into the mirror I realize this will not work. I look ridiculous. Maybe hunchback?

Hopefully no one thinks this is anything suspicious and I thank my white girl privileges for even trying to do this. I quickly devour my egg fried rice and relinquish the Tupperware. The Ryanair staff are exhaustedly telling three couples they must pay the extra €25, they should have read the new cabin bag policy. Then, I angle my hunchback so it’s less visible to the air stewards and hold my other bag of items in front of me. Success!

I have just taken many many extra kilos into this plane. But this flight only takes me as far as Dublin. I have a second flight from Dublin to Bristol and this may take some recalculating...

GWOTD: berechnen - to calculate