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It might be more common to see this kind of situation if you are travelling in Indonesia (domestic flight). so here we go.
Firstly, it is amusing to see a girl, perhaps in her senior high school year brought so many boxes. I counted, it was 5 boxes including one looked like a full speaker (imagine a home theatre speaker). Obviously, she needed to pay for more extra baggage. Other than that, when I was on queue for checking in, I saw many people were kinda illiterate. It was written very clearly on te screen that those particular counters were opened for NO BAGGAGE Passengers only and still you would see people with trolley full of their big luggages went to those particular counters.
Secondly, again, it was written clearly "Please stand behind the yellow line." It was me who stands behind the yellow line, there's a guy behind me but his trolley was already besides me :) And of course when it was my turn, he also went front. Again, he was behind me but his luggages were besides me. I also carried a trolley and he needed to be back a little bit for me to put on the scales. So, I took conclusions; 1. He is color blinded
2. He likes to do some extra work like moving backward and forward.
3. Or maybe he was really in a rush because he needed to go to the toilet. LOL
Thirdly, I was in the waiting room. I read a book as usual and when I moved my head up from my book the only scene I saw was people with their phones. 80% of them, and it was only me who held a book besides a phone. There were only 4 types of people in the room. Majority was with their phone, second majority was just day-dreaming (doing nothing), one or two were with their laptops or tabs, and me who's the only one who bothered to read. I found it was quite an amusing scene.
Fourthly, and I thought it was the most amusing thing I saw on my trip. We were on the queue to board on the plane. It was not a new story to see two big FAT lines from two different directions (imagining an L shaped line), and then there's one man rushed came to te CENTER of the lines, 'shouted' in silence to be served first. He got served finely, but the funny thing was... he was actually with a group and he rushed to get all of them got trough the plane fast, unfortunately his group was wayyyyy behinddd the lineeee. And I was just laughing out loud in my heart. Oh poor man, his effort was useless because he ended up waiting the rest of his company. Lonely and looks like a fool hahahahaha. The moral of the story;
1. You should have communicated with your party before you did some cheated thing like cutting the line
2. Or, you just have to stand in line like everybody peacefully, your seat in the plane won't be taken unless you sit on the window seat. Which is actually my next amusing story.
Number five, it was pretttyyyy normal to see that your seat on the window side was taken already although that person knows very well that it was not his/her seat. So, I gave up my window seat, but the amusing part was the reason I heard from that person... with a wide smile she said.. " hhehehe, it was the same number anyway... hehehehe" hadeh bu... yes tht's the same number, but your husband (who sat on my seat) has to change his name temporarily becoming CHendani Budhi and I became ur husband's name. Ok, I let it go.
Number six, it is similarly like number four. When we got trough the gate, there was an airport crew who said clearly "number 16-30 please go trough the stairs". "NUmber 1-15 can go straight." Maybe, they don't put a sign because people here don't bother to read like the point in number 1 and number 2. Anyway, my seat was in 6F, so I went straight and I sat nicely on 6D instead. Then, the flight attendance was asking a man who just got into the plane with his little box.
FA: "Which number sir?"
The man: "Number 30" and I couldn't help my self not looking at the man. He needed to go all the way back and struggled a bit because people were coming from the back (his seat was near the end of the plane, BAH). hehehehehe I could only laugh. THe moral of the story;
Go through the procedures and you will just find your seat in 5 minutes, yes you need to go down and go up to the plane, but at least you don't need to go across all the passengers in reverse direction with your little box.
Number seven, I caught a girl looked at me amusingly because I was reading a book and I smiled while reading it. Perhaps, she never seen one strange girl with a slanted eyes reading in a plane and smiling. She might have thought that I was a bit crazy? Well, I did not mind since I saw her quiet an amusing girl as well. She was wearing earmuffs in the plane, and I believe the temperature is not even hitting 10 degrees. But, well... I am a strange one myself, so I have no right to judge eh? hahaha...
Lastly, amusing is not the right word, it was more an admirable.
The wife and husband who sat next to me were doing shalat during the plane. It was my first time seeing it, and it gained my respect to them even tho the husband took my seat lol. But, sincerely admire them. They did it silently and in rhythm. It was a beautiful scene.
I might have been in silence for a long time considering I lived alone, I rarely had someone that I could communicate, so all of these were caught on my attention. But, it made my trip had a story to begin with haha. It surely gave me a lot of laugh. At the same time, I felt saddened. That's the society becoming right now. Illiterate, ignorant, and can't live without their phone. Sad, but well... not many people got to experience an early introduction to reading like myself. So, I am not blaming anyone. I am typing this merely because it is an event happened in December, and oh I was so amused.
Btw, MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!
I am glad to be home for Christmas. In these two days, I had a conversation with my opa, slept with my papo, cuddling with Gassing and Echong, and went out with my super cousin. More to come of course.
Once again, Merry Christmas...
CVB
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