How would you handle these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights?

the same way

Carry an umbrella, go to the lost luggage booth, and untangle the lights. I've dealt with all three of these things, and it worked out ok in the end in all three cases.

Rainy day? Bring an umbrella. Lost luggage? I would have brought necessities in a carry-on, and I'd call the airline at regular intervals until they found it. Tangled Christmas tree lights? I'd patiently untangle them (done this more than once). Someone I knew had tangled Christmas tree lights and he hung them from the ceiling in a corner of his basement and called it his "clot of festivity".

A rainy day - stay home and watch movies with the blinds open. I like watching the rain.

Lost luggage - an excuse to buy new clothes!

tangled Christmas tree lights - I like to untangle stuff like this, so I'd sit down and work it out.

I would be surprised at rain in summer and grateful for it, especially during a dry year like we've had. Lost luggage doesn't apply since I don't travel. I also don't decorate trees with lights, nor do I use other Christmas decorations. If I did use the lights for other than a tree (don't believe in cutting down trees then tossing them out after the holidays) I would just untangle them.

Rainy days are cool. Tangled Christmas lights are no big deal. Lost luggage would be annoying.

oh.. I was thinking emotional handling.

I'd do nothing about a rainy day. I'd ignore the rain. I'd try to track down the lost luggage. As for the Christmas lights, I'd just not use them.

Use common sense.

Rainy day - this whole summer has been one long rainy day. I'm kind of used to it. I don't know how to handle a sunny day anymore.
Lost luggage - fill out forms and stuff and wait hope for it to arrive.
Tangled Christmas tress light - Untangle them. I don't celebrate Christmas and I don't put up any Christmas decorations so I really don't care.

Oh i might just get a bottle of wine and have a party if all this happened to me

No big deal. I've had all 3 happen

Turning losses into gains
Every single time it rains

> Turning losses into gains
> Every single time it rains

Oh yes "cheers" to you Linda yes losses into huge gains and anytime it rains indeed hats off to Linda yeah , yeah yeah

You deal with them.

I enjoy rainy days as long as they're not five in a row.

I don't enjoy lost luggage but if I'm not too tired and too stressed out from travel... it's hopefully not a big deal. I usually carry with me the things that I really need to not lose.

I don't put up Christmas tree lights, but aren't they designed to get tangled?

Rainy day: Take a nap.

Lost luggage: Hit the local Wal-mart

Tangled christmas tree lights: Plug em in first to make sure it's worth the trouble.

"clot of festivity".

I love this idea!

> his "clot of festivity".


I love this idea!

Okay now there's thinking ahead. Wouldn't be much fun to spend 5 hours untangling lights, hang them up, and plug them in, only to find you should have just went out on bought new ones.

sleep, dog, dog.

I had something like that in my apartment in college.....we called it my "Christmas Blob" - it had tinsel - lights and ornaments - straight outta the box from last year - just basically plugged into a wall socket and hung, which I imagine was as much a fire hazzard as it was festive.... ahhh Christmas memories!

I only think ahead because I've been stupid before

Booze and/or drugs... and lots of them... Although I do like rainy days so would probably just kick back and enjoy that...

umbrella, complain to managment and try to get a free something, discontinue putting up Christmas lights for future years

none of these are really particularly serious problems when they happen to me, so I would just deal.

rainy day=absolute love! covered in warm fuzzies
tangled xmas tree lights=either untangle them or say fudge it and get new ones
lost luggage=since i just purged all of my crap, (seriously), lost stuff is simply that... stuff. glad to be whole, don't need stuff to be whole

Feel free to borrow it, then! I'm sure he'd be honored.

Sounds like a really FAST way to decorate. No muss, no fuss, and liable to burst into flames at any moment - the perfect thing to adorn a student apartment!

A rainy day I can cope with easily. I live in the UK, it's common. Lost luggage is a bit trickier, becasue the chances are the person who had to tell me wouldn't be the one who was responsible for having lost it, so no point in going mental at them. I'd handle it graciously but make it clear I'd be looking for compensation. And the lights, well, just start at the beginning!

If all three happened on the same day, I might start to feel the corner of my eye twitch though...

it was! and it packs away and stores easily under the bed until next year !

I love rainy days.
I've never experienced lost luggage, but since I'm a materialistic bee-yotch I'd probably be unnecessarily freaking out.
I'd just borrow Christmas lights from my neighbor, or substitute with velvet ribbons (We did that one year).

Probably the same way I would handle no rain, no lost luggage and untangled christmas tree lights. It's the human emotional aspects I do not handle well. The friend that stood me up in the rainy day, the lost luggage that was tainted with bad feelings from somewhere, and the tangles tree lights left over from another miserable christmas with the family. Those kinda days aren't so well handled.

I looooooove Maya Angelou

Spiked eggnog.

Drive slower
Go to the lost baggage claims
Untangle them; It isn't really that hard.

With patience and good humor, I hope, 'cause S... happens.

Rainy day - be depressed
lost luggage - panic
tangled Christmas lights - cuss and throw them in the garbage, buy new ones

Who is Maya Angelou??

All the same. Just deal.

easily, terribly, and methodically (respectively)

Rain is just liquid sunshine, I'd go about my day as usual, lost luggage would piss me off. tangled christmas tree lights would go in the trash if they were mine, if they were someone else's I'd fudge with them for awhile before they went in the trash.