looking sexy while flying across the atlantic

With just 2 days to go, I am left with nothing to do. I have tried to re-pack and adjust things in my overweight cases for the sake of shaving off a few grams here or there, but it looks like I'll have to carry atleast one overweight suitcase, despite having to leave behind so many things. Worst of all, there is no way of accurately telling how much the luggage weighs, as our $5 weighing scale tends to be very optimistic, and there are no friendly neighbourhood flour mills where you could make use of their balance scales. Mom's clinic has a large floor-mounted weighing scale(that is fluent in metric) which may come to our rescue.

There is also this strange, fervent last-minute spending spree that is coming on, and despite me knowing that I have neither the money or the payload, I am beside myself with ideas of what else I'd like to buy.

Thanks to the hefty luggage, I have no choice but to use the garish red-and blue el-cheapo stroller luggage, already coming apart, and held together with Krazy Glue (not kidding) for my carry-on baggage. My smart and sexy black laptop bag will ride in the confines of my large suitcase in the belly of the plane. I have this thing about looking cool while travelling, It's as if I had to attend a high-power exec meeting as soon as I got off the bird. As It became clear that the mass of my cargo would be a lot more than fashionable, I knew that the idealised picture I had in my noggin, with me sitting comfortably in an airport lounge, sipping on a espresso, with my laptop flurrying across the WiFi; or on the plane, with a good view and a comely airhostess, was not to be. I had better be prepared for another agonizing 24 hours of travel, complete with loud jet engines(thank you, Boeing and GE) louder infants in mid-flight, sweaty, smelling uncles who like to cuddle, robotic airhostesses, and bad weather.

Piece of advice- Never, ever buy bargain-basement priced luggage, even if you travel once a year or less. I'd rather buy something decent and reliable rather than cheap and disposable, even for a single trip.