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Hey there, it's Stephen Dubner breaking in to your freakonomics radio feed with a special request for your help.
Let me explain.
Whoa.
So there is a suitcase on the road.
What do you have there?
All right, we'll give you a little bit of adventure here.
That's me and Matt Sparks, a senior vp with Delta Airlines.
Matt was driving us across the absolutely massive tarmac at the Atlanta airport when we came upon on that suitcase in the middle of the road.
It had apparently fallen off a luggage cart.
Matt got right on it.
Hey, Phil, it's going to Salt Lake City at 556, so it's got about 3 hours to connect.
Will you grab it?
I can grab it.
Thank you, sir.
All right, so listen, I'm glad you picked up the bag, but it makes me a little nervous that there was just a suitcase sitting in the middle there.
Well, it makes me nervous too.
That's obviously not the way you want to see the process.
The suitcase plainly didn't belong on the tarmac.
What about us?
What were we doing there?