Dad dropped us off at the airport with hours to spare so we
were in no rush, just had to cruise on in find the Air Asia desk, check in then
relax for a few hours. I couldn’t seem
to locate my flight on the departures board, but I knew it was only because I
was too early.
We lugged our bags
up and down the terminal searching for the elusive Air Asia desk, Bear Grills
(Man vs Wild) would have been at the drinking urine stage if he had to carry as
much weight as far as we did. Julia was
keen to ask someone but my plan was to walk back and forth another dozen times
until the desk appeared magically where it hadn’t been before. Jules pointed out that some flights scheduled
for departure after mine had now appeared on the board, I panicked a little,
took a glance at my ticket and relaxed,
L “Don’t know why it isn’t up there, Air Asia are probably
to cheap to warrant a mention.
Julia then collared
a passing airport worker:
J “Excuse me do you know where the Air Asia desk is?”
AW “Usually opens up over there, but it looks like they’ve
closed for the day”
J “That’s funny, Lock’s flight leaves at 1.20”
AW “Are you sure? Can I look at the ticket?”
L “Sure, see Melbourne airport, not Avalon, 29th
Jan”
The airport worker took a look at the ticket, Julia looked
sick,
J “This isn’t good Lock”
L “What”
AW “Oh”
At this stage I’m the only one who hasn’t realised I’m about
to either blow the holiday budget or the holiday altogether.
J ”Look at the time!”
L “Yeah, 1.30”
AW “Left this morning mate, 0130…the Air Asia office is
upstairs if you want to speak to them.”
Bloody low cost airlines just don’t wait for anyone!!.....bastards.
I looked at Julia
sheepishly,
L “Can’t believe I didn’t look”
J “ What are we going to do?”
I tried more wandering back and forth waiting for my flight
to appear to no avail.
Julia looked as stressed, I giggled: They
say if you can keep your head while those around you are losing theirs maybe
you haven’t grasped the seriousness of the situation.
We decided to see if
I could get a seat on Julia’s flight.
This provided Jules with the first chance to tell her new favourite
story about how I didn’t realise there was an AM as well as a PM in every day.
Jules didn’t have long to wait for the second telling as we went around to book
a flight at flight centre. It did make
me feel better when the flight centre staff said they get a bit of business
from jokers like me. Got the feeling
they didn’t have many jokers laughing as much as we were.
(Except from Malaysian adventure- 29th Jan 2009, Melbourne )
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