Continental Airlines and Underwear corp

Gotta be.
I travelled five times this year--a tad high for me but nonetheless, I was fortunate enough to have lost my luggage only two of those five times. Feeling fortunate, I brought out my calculator to quantitatively assess my arithmetic good fortune. There it was: counting all trips, I had lost my luggage only 40% of the time.

I then realized that each trip was round in nature, so I recalculated and came out with a much more pleasing 20%. Twenty percent! Alas, I would need to buy new luggage and shorts only one out of every five future trips.

But before I poured a glass of congratulatory wine, I pursued a tad further and deduced that, in those trips, there were some multi legged flights, resulting in a total of 14 different planes and corresponding luggage hand offs. Recalculation: a joyous 14.3%

Then, to my further joy, I remembered that on three of those trips, my wife accompanied me for a total of 24 couple flights and a family percent of 8.3%

Yes, that would be joyous but then I remembered that a business associate accompanied me on one trip and, alas, his luggage was lost. I decided that, that was his problem and would probably appear in his very own blog.

I put my calculator away and wondered what Continental Airlines was doing with all of my shorts.