While there are a lot of reasons that someone could be uneasy about air travel, the odd truth is that I've always found myself worrying more about seeing my luggage at my destination than actually making it there myself.
Because while there are so many airline employees who are committed to making the transportation process run as smoothly as possible, we are talking about a pretty complicated system run by people and computers that are always capable of making mistakes.
But while it's definitely a rough situation to set out for a vacation only to learn that the airline has lost the things you need for it, that anxiety runs even deeper when they have no idea where the lives you entrusted with them are.
And that's the scary situation that one woman recently had to face.