.. it ends tonight .. it ends tonight! Check-in - hurray !! "The plane is SUPPOSED to land here within 2 hours and HOPEFULLY we shall reach milan 5 hours from now" was the response I got from the check-in counter. What was the question you ask? "Hi, what time is the flight expected to land in Milan?". Simple isn't it ? Wonder why the suppositions and hopes were still a part of the answer I got, wasn't 8 hours enough of a buffer for the incompetence of Myair to be taken care of? Ah well, like any normal being, my follow up question was - "Well if the initial flight was supposed to take 1 hour 40 minutes, why is the new flight going to take double that time?!" - did the time-space continuum freeze for them, or is it because the God of Time is yawning in the morning so it gets stretched to the extent of making things happen doubly slow ? At this point in the conversation, in a cartoon a light bulb would have lit up on the lady's head as she understood the question, but that's cartoons, in reality what I got was an "I dunno" with a shrug of the shoulders and a "have a nice flight" with a pretentious smile - I don't care if am being obnoxious or negative - I deserve to be all that and even more especially after tonight!
I guess if its 5 hours from now, the connecting flight is screwed, lest it be late too following in the footsteps of this one. Totally exhausted and literally yawning while writing this post, I wonder what makes these people tick like clockwork - the enthusiasm is bubbling as if the Italians were waiting to get their hands on all the duty-free goodies. People buying boxes of Turkish delight, baklawa and what not - hell there's even a Turkish lady who now has 5 bags in her hand and is trying to control her 3 bratty grandkids! For want of change, and pretense, I amble into the duty-free shop, picking up colognes and trying them on, as a towering lady stands right next to me and out comes a heavy Turkish voice - "can I help you with anything?". When you're half asleep, groggy and pestered for the past so many hours, even the slightest of sounds feels like echoes in the head, and this one was like shouting in the Grand Canyon !! I get up with my reverberating ears, and drowsily walk back to my lappy to write this adieu.
Great - a woman just started the beep system because of a Red Bull - why would someone be so dumb to hand out a Red Bull to a friend outside without paying for it and ask if its cold enough - i thought cold was a binary expression -it is or it isn't !! Well when in Rome do what the Romans do, but when they're in Istanbul, never follow what the Romans do ! I do not know why but apparently the lady next to me seems really interested in my screen, am giving her a mention so that she can be happy reading while i write this.
There is a lot more to tell, especially on what happened just before and after check-in, but for now am praying I catch my flight from Milan on time, so that I can crash on the bed, and sleep all day long! Am sleepy, groggy, bored, tired and very angry, so I guess the funny is out the window, so no bad jokes - I bid adieu, till next time am conscious and in a frame of mind to complete the tale of the night that never ended - almost ;)
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