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Old Aug 11, 2009 | 3:22 pm
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nickyboy
 
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Turned up at MAN for MAN-AMS-PEK only to be told the flight was the following day.....just went home, rescheduled my meetings in China and went back the following day, never told a soul at work

Forgot to take my passport to the airport 3x in China, once leaving it in a hotel safe after a monster baijiu session the previous night. Had to get a friend to go to the hotel and persuade the manager to let him in the room (which by then was resold) to get at the safe. Mossed the flight, missed the factory meeting.....

Once slept in (forgot to take the "not at weekends" option off the alarm on my phone) and made it to the airport 20mins before take off....no chance, even with an attempted bribe of the manager of the (very small Chinese) airport. Had to get a bus to another city....5 hours....wait for another flight to the desitnation city.....3 hours. Arrived 10 hours late

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