My move to edinburgh for the winter has started off in pretty typical fashion.  I got a car service to the airport early this morning — and it’s a good thing I got an early start.  I forgot my passport, so had to call the car service guy immediately to come back to the airport (luckily he wasn’t very far away) and pick me up, then take me all the way back to the other side of Brooklyn to get my passport, then take me back out to the airport.  So that whole trip to the airport this morning cost me about $100.  Then it turns out that the 3rd bag (my banjo) costs $200.  So between transportation and baggage fees this morning I dropped about $350.  That’s only $50 less than the plane ticket to Edinburgh.  The $100 cab I’m fine with.  That was due to my own stupidity in forgetting my passport, but $255 in baggage fees!?  That’s robbery.  I thought I was flying KLM Royal Dutch, but it turns out the flight is operated by Delta.  Had I known that, I would have known that I’d end up being screwed.  I have *never*, not ONE single time flown on delta without having to pay a bunch of extra $$ for something or other.  I usually just don’t fly Delta.  Even if it’s a lot cheaper to do so.  Because I know I’ll have to pay eventually…  But this time they fooled me by hiding behind the good name of an airline I actually like.  Oh well, as long as they get me to Edinburgh safely I guess I can’t complain to much.  Delta is the worst.