These days, I have become quite innovative in packing for a business trip.
Dreading those luggage waits, I want to maintain my hand-baggage-only lifestyle. Squeezing out smaller portions of shampoo and cologne into vials and cream and toothpaste into sachets, I have assembled several “mini” travel kits. I check in my luggage with these travel contents on my first trip, only to leave this kit behind in our branch office in the location I visited. This allowed me to make all my subsequent trips without checking in any luggage.
However, recently visiting an important client, I committed a faux pas. After my meeting, much like a reflex action, I handed him one such parcel with the thinking that I would visit him again. He thanked me profusely for my “gift” and invited me out to dinner that evening.
Embarrassed, I then had to tell him what the contents were.
