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
Sri Chinmoy, The world-experience-tree-climber, part 3, Agni Press, 1993