Great news! I had broken my Sony 505 screen, but opted to buy a Kindle 2 as a replacement. I've treated it much, much more gently now that I know they can be fairly fragile.
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...a friend who found out the hard way that airport baggage handlers are BRUTAL - especially around the (US) Thanksgiving holidays.
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Just to stick up for the Airport Ramp workers of the world, it really isn't the easiest job. Not only are you lifting a few thousand bags a day, those suckers are heavy! Imagine how hard it is just lugging 1 or 2 of your own bags around an airport, then think about doing that for EVERYONE on the plane, over and over all day long.
Then of course you get the jokers who somehow manage to pack 85 pounds of luggage into a tiny little shoulder bag, and you nearly bust a gut lifting it when you expect something light. Or my favorite, the "late check-in" passengers, who have bags coming out to the plane a minute before it's due to push, and you have to scramble to open the cargo doors back up and get it on board.
I know chuckin' bags is just "grunt" work, but we do try to be as easy as possible on the luggage. Well
most of us. But having inside knowledge of the entire journey a bag makes, even before it ever reaches our hands, I can honestly recommend never packing anything overly expensive or fragile in luggage. We just don't often have the luxury of enough time or energy to treat things with kid-gloves.