Just once………………just one time………………I would like to be able to sit here and tell you that my flight went well……………that I sat next to a normal person…………….or even that I sat next to nobody and that absolutely nothing happened………………….but whether it’s Murphy and his law or the big boss in heaven………….someone has obviously decided that this is never going to happen.
I thought all was going to be well as the only minor hiccup so far had come when I had put my boarding pass in my carry-on bag before it went through the X-ray machine. I was asked for it by the mall cop who when realizing that I had did not have the boarding pass in my hand shouted “no boarding pass on aisle 1.” This resulted in another officer who had obviously been best friends with the entire McBurger range asking me to “step aside.”…………….
I did and she waddled round the other side of the conveyor belt while I extracted my boarding pass. When I presented it to her, she didn’t even look at it. For all she knew it could have been out of date or a pass to my local library………………………..anyway, as she went of to get another McWhopper I sat waiting for American Airlines flight 108 to leave on time……….it did……………and I thought all would be well. I even ignored the fact that the flight attendants were as cold as an Eskimo’s nipple. It was only going to be a five and a half hour flight………….I was in Business Class…………..and I was going home.
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