@PlacidPenguin Per the photos, it has a couple of blue stripes and can zipper-seal pasta.

@JT954 Take a Meh-cation: It’s like a Stay-cation, but with more household chores.

@cengland0 The wheels stick out so far from the actual suitcase that I bet these are actually about 22" and 26" tall. Spinner luggage always suffers from some loss of interior volume that way, and sometimes end up described as weird non-standard sizes because of it.

@njd there are three options and only one is a duffle.

@jbartus LOL…I would google a pic for your order phrase but I am afraid of what wonderful results I would get back.

@mfladd @jbartus

Forget image results. Regular results are where this order number (err… string?) is at.

@mfladd he who dares prospers. Plus ultra! Carpe diem!

/giphy silky-perfumed-muffin

@mildewman Maybe if you don’t fill it full since it is soft sided you can force it into the measuring bin…

@mildewman And if 20" is without wheels (the measurements typically are), the length may be too much as well.

@mildewman Does Delta actually enforce that? I fly US, American, Southwest, none of them enforce carry on rules that I can tell…

@NAFderwin And they too spelled his name wrong … Former Islander.

@mellowirishgent you can see one up close and personal at Target before it comes if you want to possibly regret your purchase and get back the usual meh expectations.

@connorbush Consider that the WOW factor. Because purple.

@Amila99 consider that a blessing. Spinners suck, especially for carry on. Those fragile wheels break at the most inopportune times. The small wheels suck for fast runs to make flights while the bag is in tilt mode - they get tripped up on rough services. They suck up capacity of the bag since they count toward the carry on measurements.

@RedOak Yeah, I don’t get the spinner love people have? I prefer the wheels on the duffel.

@jbartus Sorry to hear it! I’ll keep an eye out for it. But don’t hold your breath for @hollboll, she flew across the world to get away from us.

@woodhouse wow it was that bad? You know rubbing some pine needles on your pits in the morning isn’t a suitable replacement for store-bought deodorant or showering, right? B.O. is no joke. Poor @hollboll.

@jbartus Neither is sleeping under a tree trunk, but nobody complained in Harry Potter when Sirius Black did it.

@woodhouse yeah but Sirius Black wasn’t working in a cubicle every day!

@jbartus As if we have any way of knowing that for sure.

@jbartus And /technically/ we don’t have cubicles, it’s more of a defensive perimeter around my desk.

@woodhouse

For whose protection though?

@PlacidPenguin Little of column A, little of column B.

@woodhouse

You’re still better off than @Matthew though. On one side he has Irk, and on the other side he has Glen.

@woodhouse I’m getting a definite ‘column B’ vibe here given that you’ve already driven @hollboll off!

@jbartus I can’t just admit that I’m stuck here, can I? She will be back in a few weeks, and I’m sure she will let me out. No big deal.

@woodhouse should we send you food and other necessities to make your stay more comfortable?

@jbartus

Already working on it. Provided that someone decides to risk giving @woodhouse his packages.

@PlacidPenguin @jbartus I’m working my way out with a plastic knife. My lumberjacking skills have finally paid off!

@woodhouse

I found something, but you can’t let @lincoln find out about it.

(Should probably move this conversation to the thread welcoming you.)

@woodhouse careful, @galmaegi reads these boards too!

@jbartus

So do other Mediocre employees, although a lot of them lurk.

(Hi @sethxiansheng and @jk24!)

@PlacidPenguin I know, but I figured @galmaegi was the leading candidate to be @woodhouse’s warden.

@jbartus

Watch The Twilight Zone. One theme which they had (in several forms) is that sometimes the biggest prison for a person is their own mind.

@jbartus You’d have to check with her on that - I’m not sure she will willingly take on the burden of supervising me.

@PlacidPenguin I need to finish Black Mirror (which seriously stresses me out, but is sooo good). Similar themes there.

@woodhouse If she won’t, then who?

@jbartus Then I remain fully unhinged, in all of my forum dwelling glory!

@woodhouse

Never heard of it (until you mentioned it 3 hours ago).

Looked on Wikipedia, and I can see why I never heard of it.

It’s not on BBC America, and anyways, it moved to Netflix, so…

@woodhouse so we need to smuggle in plastic knives, do you have any preference with regards to what we smuggle them in inside of?

@PlacidPenguin I believe it is (if not directly based off of) heavily influenced by Twilight Zone. Super creepy, alternate reality type stuff. Excellently made, but super stressful to watch for me. It gets so tense.

@jbartus Oranges? I don’t want to get scurvy.

@PlacidPenguin @woodhouse
Black Mirror is one of the best shows I’ve ever seen.
The whole show is a big mindfuck.

@woodhouse anything non-perishable? It might take you weeks to make your way out.

@RiotDemon @woodhouse

Once more cancellations which are relevant to my watch list come in, I’ll give the show a look.

@PlacidPenguin the great thing about Black Mirror is that they’re all stand alone. Everything revolves around tech, but there isn’t characters you have to remember from episode to episode.

You can just watch one episode and have a conclusion.

The first episode is pretty… Uh… Weird.

@RiotDemon I started on season 3, so the first episode was pretty innocuous (the social media rating one). But it got super out of hand after that. I made it to the third episode so far (with the Anonymous-esque group) and couldn’t handle it after that for awhile.

@woodhouse you have to go back and watch the first two seasons!

The show is sometimes hard to watch because of how real it could be. Seriously messed up stuff.

@RiotDemon @woodhouse I’m one of the most fucked up people I know, and I hate that show. I also hate that it was descibed to me as being similar to the twilight zone. It most definitely is not. There is a huge difference between the big picture aspects of the twilight zone and the shock value of black mirror.

@RiotDemon I’m gonna try and push through, because it’s an amazingly high quality show. Just a little horrific at times.

@PantHeist I’ll admit, I haven’t seen Twilight Zone. But it was sold to me as a modern take on TZ, so that’s my point of reference. I know the concept, just not the show itself.

@PantHeist

You must not know many people. Which is strange, because you’ve been with us for 895 days.

@woodhouse out of curiosity, do you happen to know if you all kept a reserve of 20 inch bags?

I know my ticket will get addressed in order and all that, just that if a 20 inch bag is out of the picture there’s a bag I saw last night at Marshalls I should go pick up tomorrow.

@woodhouse

Well that’s not right. We’ll have to fix that.

@woodhouse Watch twilight zone then. It’s a ridiculous claim, and twilight zone was amazing. My favorite episode is “The Obsolete Man”. Please watch that and tell me if you still think they deserve to be compared.

@PlacidPenguin Either that or you don’t know me very well. Coin toss, really.

@woodhouse

I did some searching on Amazon and eBay for DVD sets for The Twighlight Zone.

The Complete Series (25 disc set)
$49+ on Amazon.
$38.88 on eBay.

The Complete Definitive Collection (28 disc set)
$77.97 on Amazon.
$40-$50 on eBay.

@PantHeist

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

@PlacidPenguin how can something be a complete series if there’s a version with three more discs?

@woodhouse I’m still mad about this. Here’s a non-drunk-and-exhausted person’s take. https://thenightgallery.wordpress.com/2015/05/07/is-black-mirror-truly-a-modern-twilight-zone/

@jbartus

(From an 11 year old AOL article.)

@jbartus Re: extra bags - I can’t guarantee anything, so if I were you I’d probably get the one at Marshall’s. I hate to send you elsewhere, but I’d rather that than you miss out if we can’t help you out. Sorry to be vague, but I don’t wanna overpromise and underdeliver. You can always check the meh encore on Morningsave.com, see if they pop up there before you go (I’m still learning the timetables on that stuff, sorry!).

@woodhouse no, you’re fine. I just wasn’t sure if you knew whether you guys would have kept a back-stock for issues or not. Thanks for being frank.

@jbartus For sure! I always try to underpromise and overdeliver best of luck with it, though!

@woodhouse

Hi Frank.

@PlacidPenguin http://imgur.com/xiqP6cT

@woodhouse

Here ya go:

@PlacidPenguin Still working on gif placement.

@woodhouse

When it comes to using gifs and images, I generally will just take the image, open it in a new tab, which will give me the gif/image on a page of its own with a URL ending in .gif/.jpg/etc.

@woodhouse Dude, I showed you the gif thing!

@timhomework04

Estimated Delivery
FedEx SmartPost: Wednesday, March 8th - Monday, March 13th

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Was your order shipped at least?

@PlacidPenguin Long story. Yes, shipped on 2/20. Never came toward Missouri. Went from Texas through New Mexico, Phoenix, AZ on to Bell Gardens, California. Now says being delivered to local post office for delivery. Contacted FedEx. They say there is a problem but I could not reach anyone in meh support to find out how to resolve this.

(Kinda jealous that it’s cheaper for luggage to travel around the United States than it is for a human.)

@woodhouse @galmaegi - ping

@PlacidPenguin Tell me about it. I’ve strongly considered hiding in luggage to save on flight costs.

@woodhouse

But where would you put your ax?

@PlacidPenguin I have them stashed all over the country.

@woodhouse Good News, The luggage is now making a stop in Des Moines, Iowa. So, progress has been made. (Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, California, Iowa)

@timhomework04 Your luggage will be world travelers before you even get it! Maybe a quick stop in Mexico for a nice vacation will be next? Only USPS knows (hopefully not, though. We want you to get your stuff ASAP).

@timhomework04 beep boop please hold momentarily