Filed under great ideas in theory but not quite in practice: matching luggage for Great Britain’s Olympic team. Sure, it’s cool and a nice show of solidarity at first, but then you get to baggage claim and you realize that you have a pretty big problem.
Just ask members of Team GB who arrived back in London and went to claim their bags, only to find that there was no real way to tell anyone’s apart aside from checking every nametag.
See for yourself:
Baggage collection could be interesting. #samesame #greattobeBAck pic.twitter.com/2ujPkLxmL1
— Team GB (@TeamGB) August 23, 2016
Anyone seen my red bag? @TeamGB #Olympics pic.twitter.com/R7NvpH1zrV
— Alex Gregory (@AlexGregoryGB) August 23, 2016
Mine's the red one!! pic.twitter.com/Z68nxrDyJ6
— Nick Dempsey (@nickdempsey1) August 23, 2016
Carnage! pic.twitter.com/3ql8WQCkIQ
— 470 Girls (@470Girls) August 23, 2016
Red bags were everywhere. Took a while to find your bags even with name & sport tags #GreattobeBAck #TeamGB #Rio2016 pic.twitter.com/TfWAziL0Qj
— Elena Allen (@ElenaAllenGB) August 23, 2016
A sea of red and great athletes. Where's Wally with bags… What a welcome home #greattobeBAck pic.twitter.com/lncNm4HTLL
— GBR FX Girls (@Gbrfxgirls) August 23, 2016
Sure, they had tags on them and all that, but really, how long must this have taken to sort through?
I suppose if there’s a bright side, it’s that nobody lost their luggage. Just ask Andy Dalton what that’s like.
H/T Extra Mustard
