Extremely Pricey Incredibly Reliable Samsonite Luggage

I had to buy a black Samsonite luggage for €185 at the Asian tourists’ filled La Vallee Village yesterday when my parents’ luggage that I brought to Europe literally broke on the road to Paris Disneyland.

I came from a household with a cap of $20 bucks for a luggage purchase.

All my previous luggage was an old hand-me-down or borrowed-but-never-returned kind.

Except for the one which I broke. Amma bought it recently from the Mustafa Centre. The plan was for me to borrow it for the trip and return it the next time I visited home. It’s practically brand new, and I broke it within days.

Was it due to my overpacking? Or was it my usual carelessness?

And for me to replace it with another one which cost ten times more. Oh, Lord! I had been carrying a pang of guilty feeling that follows me forever.

When I texted my friends back in Singapore to update them about the trip, the luggage guilt was the first thing I shared with them. But all three of them justified my unwilling Samsonite luggage purchase.

I whined:

“But why would a brand matter on luggage? A piece of luggage is just that. Luggage!“

Me circa 2011.

“It’s a good investment!” they replied in unison.

I hope my best friends are right about the pricey Samsonite luggage.

Update: 2020 ━ It has been a decade, almost, since I bought the luggage. It has travelled with me all over Asia and Europe, multiple times between Melbourne, Singapore, Indonesia, and Japan. I have dragged it, sat on it, and dropped it multiple times. I have squeezed more than its’ 30 kg limit into it plenty of times. It has transported undeclared food from one country to another. I am incredibly happy with it. It’s one of the best purchases I have made in my life. even though I was “forced” to do it.

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