On one of our flights during this vacation, my husband and I had 2 seats in a row of 4. My husband was sat next to a woman, who didn’t utter one word throughout the journey. She didn’t even go to the loo, and it was a 7 hour flight

She passed the time watching films with her earphones in.

As we were getting closer to landing, my husband settled back and removed his earphones, and I decided to tidy up (a first).

I removed the earphone plug in his seat and began to roll up the wire… sadly, they were still attached to the women’s head at the side of my husband.  I had removed hers instead of my husband’s, and she wasn’t best pleased.

Then we arrived at Bangkok airport, and I was shattered.  Ever since being a child in assembly at school, I have never been able to stand for more than 10 mins without wanting to pass out (low blood pressure).  Heaven knows how people stand in pubs for hours on end, anyway, we were stood in a holding area waiting to be called through to board.

There were no seats, and hundreds of us were herded like cattle into a pen.  I told my husband (to his horror) that I would have to sit on the floor.  He gave me that look…. why can’t you be normal and stay standing like everyone else.

I sat on the cold marble floor, trying to be elegant and discreet (for his sake).  I got sat down and then all of a sudden there was this tremendous noise. I had knocked over a large metal fire extinguisher which promptly rolled across the marble floor to about 3 feet away.  The noise was deafening.

Everyone looked, and my husband looked the other way!

I had to try and get up to recover the fire extinguisher, my legs were numb, and I couldn’t walk properly.  It was horrendous!

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