Airport StoriesBack when I was a moody teenager I took a cheap flight that involved changing planes and having to go through security again. My bags were pre-checked so, when I set off the metal detector, I honestly said to the security guy that I had no idea what had set it off.
Until, that is, he searched me and found the metal knife and fork stamped "KLM" I'd nicked off the previous flight.
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chthonic, Fri 3 Mar 2006, 10:09)
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A series of unfortunate eventsI actually spent about six months a couple of years ago constantly fucking up every time I flew.
1. Arrived a day late, having mis-remembered when I was meant to be flying out. Airline was very good about it, put me on another flight.
2. Arrived at wrong airport - turned up at Gatwick, but was flying from Luton. Had forgotten than Luton existed. Realised on the Gatwick Express, got to Luton 20mins after boarding closed, ended up flying out the next day.
I started getting paranoid about reading my tickets repeatedly and carefully at this point, but that didn't stop the disasters.
3. Set my watch to the wrong time zone after arriving at my transfer point, and was sat in the bar when my flight boarded. Why don't they have tannoy speakers in airport bars? Bah.
4. Got really drunk the night before, and on two hours sleep overslept despite three seperate alarms. Of course this also caused me to miss my connecting flight. And when I finally got home, I accidentally left my passport in my jeans when I washed them.
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wangmaster2000, Mon 6 Mar 2006, 11:32,
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