What about this, then?
Luggage that weighs itself.
I fucking love it. No more paying extras to that money-grabbing bastard, Michael O Leary. In future, all I have to do is pick up the bag and it tells me how heavy it is. There's an LED screen near the handle and some sort of a gadget built in to measure the weight.
For €79.99, you get two bags, one for the cabin and one to check in. The carry-on bag is made to exactly the dimensions specified by Ryanair so that it fits snugly in their ridiculous steel-mesh bag-checker thing, but it won't get stuck. I like it.
What I like even more is the fact that two local guys are producing it, and you can look it up on their website HERE if you want to find out more.
They'll deliver anywhere in Ireland for €5, right to your front door, but how about this? If you're within 25 miles of Limerick and you phone them on 086-8109682 or 061-625910, they'll deliver free when you tell them you read about them on Bock the Robber.
Now I can't say fairer than that, can I?
Well by Jesus. In the middle of a recession, somebody is always still thinking. This idea has a lot of merit. I have a bag for Ryanair that fits in the overhead lockers, even though it's too big for the steel-frame template gadget at check-in.
The delivery arrangement is a nice touch. I wonder if they need a Meath-based distributor? Mick could do it for them in his taxi at a fiver a drop, it's not like it picks up too many fares anyway, and go beltin' along the bus lanes.
One of the local supermarkets had an offer for matching luggage sets a few years ago, you have to save up so many stamps. Every bastardin' package holiday flight into Shannon for three years disgorged nothing but those bloody luggage sets – hundreds of identical black cases. You would lose an extra half-hour at the luggage carousel poking about in other people's socks and wondering who had yours.
These guys could do with a facility for a unique identifier on the bags.
NUts
A brilliant idea. Well done to the inventors . No doubt Mick “lick lugs” O’Leary will counter by having the cage made smaller and instructing his slaves to argue the accuracy of the device.
Who knows? Maybe Mick might like it.
Brilliant.
How very profound!
Well, it is a profound subject after all. Suitcases.
Hi Lads,
CONGRATULATIONS on your prodject may your idea develop and grow into the future