Friday 30 January 2015

Clara's Travel Tales: The Bookworm Edition

For my first post for the 15-for-15 challenge, I thought I'd write about the mishap that almost befell me two weekends ago.

The "Alakoba" Book
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As I may have mentioned a few hundred times on this blog, I LOVE reading. This has unfortunately got me into trouble many times, but today we're going to focus on those of the Ajala kind.

I once missed my flight to Stockholm although I was on-time and already checked in, because I was focused on the book I had with me. I remember the airline attendant looking at me bizarrely, once she noticed that I had been sitting next to the counter all along,  and asking me how I could possibly have missed all the announcements calling for me. She sha looked upon my innocent baby-face, felt sorry for me and booked me onto the next flight, free of charge.  I knew I was lucky that day, and since then have been very vigilant about reading in airports. That is until 2 weeks ago, Friday the 16th of January to be precise...

I was scheduled to spend the weekend in Vienna with T whom I hadn't seen since just after Christmas, and was really looking forward to leaving Brussels for a few days. So as a bona fide OCD-er, I made sure that I was at the airport on time and at the gate at least 1hour before boarding was meant to commence.

However, in spite of my best efforts, I got bored and pulled out the interesting but not-so-well-written book I had been trying to finish. And that my dears was when the bookworm demon struck! I started reading, and got so into it that I didn't notice the time passing, hear the announcements for boarding, or even see people around me moving. As in I was gone! I was far far away in India, Delhi where the story was taking place.  By the special grace of a God that said I would see T that weekend, I felt a pain in my neck, looked up and noticed that the area around me was empty. Panicking slightly, I looked around, saw a line forming just ahead, and kia kia joined it.

Imagine my surprise when the airline attendant told me that, that flight was headed for Warsaw in Poland. Olorun lo yo mi, I could have ended up on the other side of Europe! The man sha saw my confusion, took pity on me and directed me to my own gate which was just behind me. There, I was lucky enough to meet another kind attendant who checked my documents quickly and literally ran down with me to the plane. I was the very last person to board, and had to do the walk of shame down to my seat. Still thank the gods of long distance relationships who were up there, looking out for T and I.

10 comments:

  1. Hahahaha the walk of shame to your seat! Liebe, du bist sehr lustig!! hahahah aber ich? Kein Buch lesen wenn ich im Flughafen bin. Oder etwas zu machen weil ich mein Flug nicht vermisst kann(probably wrong word order) so am Flughafen mache ich nichts. Ich muss ganz langweilig sein or I get distracted and miss mein Flug! Das passt nicht oder??!!
    Aber Gott sei dank dass du T siehst! A walk of shame ist mehr besser than getting to Polen

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    1. Es war sehr peinlich! Und du, was tust im Flughafen? Üblicherweise finde ich die Wartezeit sehr langweilig! Das ist warum ich habe immer ein Buch. Aber jetzt habe ich mein Lektion gelernt.....kein Buch im Flughafen ( wenigstens werde ich versuchen!), außer ich möchte nicht reisen.

      Wie üblich, danke schön für dein Kommentar auf Deutsch. Ich lerne und lerne und lerne...grenzenlos Ausbildung!

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  2. Hian nurse Clara kindly be at alert in the airport oh. I don't read in airports because even when I'm alert, I don't get the announcements most times due to the affected manner in which the announcers speak.

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    1. My dear, I have learnt my lesson (although I am sure I will soon backslide!).

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  3. This almost happened to me last year thank God i wasn't there alone else e for bad o

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    1. Not a bad idea to start travelling with companions...but what do you do when nobody is an Ajala like you? Maybe I should put out adverts for partners lol!

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    1. My sister, it was not funny at the time o, ra ra!

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  5. hahahahahhahahahahahahahahahahah lmao! lwkmdooo ROTFL.. No be small "The Alakoba Book oh" now this was an Epic read aswear... hehehehehe No be small thing oh! godamnbullshit i couldnt stop my self from laughing like a fish through the post.. kai! I shaa wished you had gone to Poland oh! E for raise your Travel C.V and the gist would have been a very ghen ghen one aswear lmao... Morale of the story.. Dont read and wait ba ?! ;)

    I just knew this challenge was gonna be a whole different level wit thee.. iLikey!! heheheheh Turn down for what?! Turn Up Biko!!! Clara my Egbon toh sure be 'highing' us on laughter ooossshhey! :) xx

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    1. Ah Poland ke?! I'd love to go there one day, but that day was not the chosen one... I swear the book wasn't even well written. I would have written the author if stinking letter if I'd missed my flight sha. Olorun lo yo wa (both of us) lol!!!

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