road trip to the airport and the embarrassing things that happen there because it is fate
on sunday we took a trip to one of my favourite places in the country - the airport! i love it there... it smells of all things adventurous because i like to ignore that i am usually perched in the domestic terminals with names like 'DURBAN' flashing by on the arrivals boardy-thing. the airport is also one of my Places Of Embarrassing Occurances. i have, on occasion, been known to say 'no, i'm not here on business, i'm a TERRORIST' instead of 'tourist' (they both slip off the tongue so easily) and where i have become horribly lost and thus almost miss my uncle's plane when he left for dubai forever (it's ok, he came back 3 years later). there is, however, one day that takes the cake - we were at the airport for some reason i cannot remember and my other uncle (i have lots) was building the airport (well his company was) and so i was pottering around with him when i got lost (i do that a lot. when we were in the deserts of qatar, we got lost and turned on the satellite machine thing that i have forgotten the name of to tell us where we were and it said in its dead pan American accent - 'you are in the gulf'...). i digress. so i went to find him, only to run into tourists (this time they were not terrorists. they were british, you see)
British boy we will call charles"'ello! are you souf affrican?"
me : um... yes
charles (brandishing a hockey stick) : lads!! our first souf affrican girrrl!
me : probably looking petrified
charles and friends : crowd around me and TAKE A PHOTO presumably called 'random british hockey team and their first spotting of a 'souf affrican' (sic) girl.
i ran away...
...only i would have run away if i hadn't run smack bang (that was the day i realised the meaning of the term 'smack bang') into a large pile of bags that were piled on the floor. all of a sudden a large crowd of very tall men all wearing the same clothes gathered around me and picked me up and dusted me off and then laughed hysterically at me like this :
'ahahaaaaaa hhhhhaaaa ahahahahaaaaaahahhhhhaaaaaaa that must be sooooo embarrassing!!!'
yes. yes it was.
i then found out that they were the nigerian soccer team on a tour. yes. yes it was.
i love the airport
ps - i made the short list for japan - they send it to tokyo and they decide there who goes. weird though- they're only taking 30 - 40 instead of last years 80 odd!
pps - PRISON BREAK STARTS TONIGHT! yaaay for me and shakti's mom! and i am at work ;( and yes i know that it is one of those 'unbelievable shows' (thanks mike) and i am a sucker for western culturisation (one of the uncles) but bite me
British boy we will call charles"'ello! are you souf affrican?"
me : um... yes
charles (brandishing a hockey stick) : lads!! our first souf affrican girrrl!
me : probably looking petrified
charles and friends : crowd around me and TAKE A PHOTO presumably called 'random british hockey team and their first spotting of a 'souf affrican' (sic) girl.
i ran away...
...only i would have run away if i hadn't run smack bang (that was the day i realised the meaning of the term 'smack bang') into a large pile of bags that were piled on the floor. all of a sudden a large crowd of very tall men all wearing the same clothes gathered around me and picked me up and dusted me off and then laughed hysterically at me like this :
'ahahaaaaaa hhhhhaaaa ahahahahaaaaaahahhhhhaaaaaaa that must be sooooo embarrassing!!!'
yes. yes it was.
i then found out that they were the nigerian soccer team on a tour. yes. yes it was.
i love the airport
ps - i made the short list for japan - they send it to tokyo and they decide there who goes. weird though- they're only taking 30 - 40 instead of last years 80 odd!
pps - PRISON BREAK STARTS TONIGHT! yaaay for me and shakti's mom! and i am at work ;( and yes i know that it is one of those 'unbelievable shows' (thanks mike) and i am a sucker for western culturisation (one of the uncles) but bite me
posted by sarah @ 8:32 AM
7 Comments:
*bite*
Sarah bunny I don't think iot's necessarily your trip to the airport that make your life interesting, but rather, it's your fascinating life and exhuburent charisma that makes AIRPORTS interesting. ;-)
For instance, those people walking in the airport the other day would have had such a dull experience - but you made it more exciting for them by making them, "Who are thou, Oh-Girl-Who-Looks-At-Me-With-Big-Grin?"
That's so fuinny! I can't believe that sort of stuff really happens! It's so cool!
Ha ha. V funny.
There is a comedy show here called CNNN news.
They bought 2 plane tickets off the net in the name of Al Kyder and Terry Wrist.
And then they didnt board the flight.
The show then played how the airport kept paging for Al Kyder which sounded like Al Qaeda and Terry Wrist which terrorist.
Well, maybe it's funnier on TV.
Terry Wrist! That's so awesome! I'm tempted to try that in a Pick and PAy or something. "Paging Al Kyder!"
GPS
global positioning system
so, were they english or nigerian?
oh yeah, and on what chai said, here are the links:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GZwJKBYUsE
here's another one too:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0n4Oehj6y8
possibly the best show on tv, pity it got axed
Congratulations!!!! On making the list.
ps
was that info there all the time? Or did you add that after? I dont remember seeing it there before.
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