Backpack

[Rodgera]

Sol, a pilot for a major airline, carries his running clothes in a
backpack, freeing his hands for his luggage.

On one trip, he told me, he noticed people grinning at him in the terminal.

Sol smiled back.

Maybe some of them were on my last flight, he thought.

Sol's ego was brimming until he got to the cockpit and stowed his bags.
That's when he saw the "Parachute" sign his co-workers had stuck to
his backpack.

[joe greiner]

In 1967, I was stationed at Fort Hood Texas and sent on temporary duty to Georgia. I was a member of a skydiving club at Fort Hood, and wanted to participate at a club in Georgia. I brought my parachute as carry-on luggage. Nowadays, I'd be arrested instantly.

Cheers,
Joe