Overweight luggage

At the Delhi airport when I was returning to Japan, the man behind the counter told me, “Unfortunately, your luggage is sixteen pounds overweight,” and he gave me a very amused smile.

I said, “Yes, you are smiling and I am crying.”

Then he checked in my luggage and said, “You don’t have to pay extra. I don’t want you to cry.”

— 29 September 1984

From:Sri Chinmoy,The World-Experience-Tree-Climber, Part 3, Agni Press, New York, 1993
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