A travellers tale
Mar 12, 2003 | 3:31 pm
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A travellers tale
I have just finished an 11 day around Europe trip involving 18 flights. As I live in the UK, I normally finish off by flying from Amsterdam to my home airport in Glasgow or Edinburgh, depending on availability.
However as many of you will know this kind of travel is a real auto-pilot jobbie and the old body gets right out of sync in more ways than one.
Waking up in a morning often involves asking yourself what country am I in ?
I digress.
On my way home my flight was cancelled from Amsterdam and they offered to fly me to London. As it was a morning flight I did not mind and was looking forward to the train ride up the East coast of England.
I duly arrived into Heathrow and headed over to Kings Cross station. I had nearly an hour before my train and realised I had not managed to visit the bathroom in the last couple of days with all the running around I had been doing.
I grapped a newspaper and managed to find a nice quiet cubicle in the mens section.
I knew that its important to make sure you take time for such things so I settled in and began to read.
After about 10 minutes nothig had happened, but I was not too worried.
Another five minutes went by and then I heard a person running into the toilet area and slamming the cubicle door next to me.
The noise and comotion left nothing to the imagination and I said to the man " God I wish that was me"
He replied, "I bet you dont as I never managed to get my trousers down "
[This message has been edited by Ewan Mebabe (edited 03-12-2003).]
However as many of you will know this kind of travel is a real auto-pilot jobbie and the old body gets right out of sync in more ways than one.
Waking up in a morning often involves asking yourself what country am I in ?
I digress.
On my way home my flight was cancelled from Amsterdam and they offered to fly me to London. As it was a morning flight I did not mind and was looking forward to the train ride up the East coast of England.
I duly arrived into Heathrow and headed over to Kings Cross station. I had nearly an hour before my train and realised I had not managed to visit the bathroom in the last couple of days with all the running around I had been doing.
I grapped a newspaper and managed to find a nice quiet cubicle in the mens section.
I knew that its important to make sure you take time for such things so I settled in and began to read.
After about 10 minutes nothig had happened, but I was not too worried.
Another five minutes went by and then I heard a person running into the toilet area and slamming the cubicle door next to me.
The noise and comotion left nothing to the imagination and I said to the man " God I wish that was me"
He replied, "I bet you dont as I never managed to get my trousers down "
[This message has been edited by Ewan Mebabe (edited 03-12-2003).]
& yes, much more than we needed to know...
Mar 13, 2003 | 6:52 am
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Anyone ever remember the Billy Connolly story about the airline survey on passengers passing wind on long haul flights ??? They estimated the average passenger did this eight times on a longhaul run.
He of course turned it around and asked what about the poor guy who had to open the door at the final destination
He of course turned it around and asked what about the poor guy who had to open the door at the final destination