Planning a trip to France? Read this real story and plan carefully.

In short:

• It turns out employees of Air France live by one motto: I will only put enough energy into my job so as to prevent my customers from hassling me.
• The next day, I was back at the airport, on my way to Nice. … She said that my bag would be on my new flight, and that it would be waiting for me when I landed. Great! But, in actuality, this was the first case of someone lying to me to just make me feel OK so I didn’t hassle her. So, I land in Nice, and of course, no bag.
• So, we land in Paris, and discover we have no baby stroller, but it’s now on it’s way to Amsterdam.
• That stroller never showed up. Several days later, when we were back at that awful Paris airport, I decided to look for the stroller. I went to the baggage office outside the main baggage claim area, but they told me I had to get into the restricted baggage claim area. Uh, how do I do this? Well, he told me to wait for someone leaving through the one-way door, and then sneak in. Basically, breach security. Ok, I can roll with that.

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