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So the bag is safely at home now. Had to get it back ‘manually’ -as my brother would say- they wouldn’t bring it back apparently I hadn’t complained early enough. The idiots, who surely are nice people but are suppressed by an evil corporation they work for, hadn’t been capable of neither reading my contact details from my business card or look me up with the details on the tag. No can do, sir.

The bag is also badly damaged. I will need to seek for refund. And damn sure I’ll have them pay postage for the letter to Ireland.

I guess I wouldn’t be this pissed of with them if they truly were a cheap airliner. After paying €180 for return to Finland, you can expect some level of service and respect.

BTW, if you google ‘smelly ryanair’, my previous blog post comes on the top. Cool.

Take care,

kristian

Getting a bag from place A to place B is not rocket science. Brain science is rocket science. My bag was lost tonight en route from Tampere to London. Now, ok, bags do get lost once in a while (this was a first for me) but taking that this flight was the ONLY flight to depart from Tampere, it’s pretty damn hard to put it in a wrong plane. This was on top of, again, very very bad service they had. I’m not going to bore you with details other that details of what was lost:

- Jeans. The ones I always wear and almost my only jeans.
- a shirt
- three pairs of Muji pants (dirty)
- Fake Steve Jobs t-shirt (ouch)
- random set of cables, couple of firewires, power adapter for my external HD, camcorder and digital compact, a phone charger
- Manfrotto mono pod and its head
- 2 packs of Hiillos sausages and one of Camping sausages
- 1 kg of Fazer salty licorice chocolate. The girlfriend said I’m not to return home without it

So basically everything is pretty easily replaceable but it still does hurt. A lot.

I wrote the following song on the plane before this happened. It describes the feelings I have for that company. I had to edit it a bit because the original used such bad language that it wasn’t suitable even for internet. And it suggested things that should not be said.

(to be sang in the melody of ‘Smelly Cat’ by Phoebe Buffay)

Ryanair, o Ryanair
Why do you hate me?

Ryanair, o Ryanair,
O’ Why do you hate me and my family?

Copyright notice: Anyone is free to sing, record or perform ‘Reverse Ode To Ryanair’ (the song) but 5% of all profits made from ‘the song’ must be donated to RSPCA. Also, the copyright holder, Kristian Tapaninaho, must be notified of any use of ‘the song’, including humming. Copyright holder takes no responsibility over infringement of Phoebe Buffay’s melody or if content of ‘the song’ causes nausea and anxiety which might result in depression.

Kristian

[update] After reading Michael O’Leary’s (CEO of Ryanair) profile in the Guardian Online, I should maybe change the song back to it’s original state. He is a bit of a*.

*Insert the c word here (not cabbage). No matter how much I want write the word i’m not going to.