We'll take more care of you alright
Back in 2004, the wife and I went to a preview screening of the Denzel Washington movie, Man On Fire - set in Mexico City, he plays a bodyguard and the story ties in with the spate of kidnappings taking place there at the time. I remembered that my sister had been there for work a few months before and sent her a jokey email (with my brother copied in) saying that I'd seen the movie and no wonder they chauffeured her around everywhere, haha, etc.

A short while afterwards, I got an email from my brother to say our sister had actually flown out to Mexico City that morning for work again. Whoops. Well, I have a habit of putting my foot in it, so that was true to form.

But as it turned out, my email wasn't the the most tactless part of the story. Oh no. Not by a long way.

That honour went to British Airways, who, as my sister told me when she replied to my mail after landing, had decided to show Man On Fire, a graphically violent movie about kidnappings in Mexico City, on a London to, er, Mexico City flight...
(Capo, Sat 5 Nov 2011, 20:46, 1 reply)

Ha ha!
Excellent. I had a similar experience with watching the first Final Destination, 3 hours before a flight from Corfu. I very nearly shit myself.
(Mr Fudge It shouldn't be illegal to have sex with an eagle, Mon 7 Nov 2011, 13:14, closed)