Monday, January 12, 2009

my first international flight

Hi there,

This is my first ever blog. Iam more interested in these stuffs and used to read many blogs. And today i mark my very first word in the world of blogging. I welcome myself :) . bear with me and correct me all through this.

Me and my wife started our travel from Chennai - Dubai-New York JFK after our vacation at India. We noticed a couple geting down at the airport and making the whole place a chaos. A attender came uttering beautiful words about them and shouting with a Rs.100 note in his hand. When enquired he said the following -" he offered them a trolley and took care of their luggage till the ticket counter. They took the pride that its a normal procedure for international travellers and said a warm thank you for the 2 minutes travel he offered for their luggage (from the gate to the ticket counter). When he asked for Rs.500 there started the clash and they started the bargain and finally gave him Rs.100". I got stunned and did not utter a word. I saw my wife and she neither had a letter to spell. The ticket counter was so free .We noticed the same family travelling all through the zig-zag queue lines even though there were no one to stand in the queue. Me and my wife cut through the lines and entered the parallel counter and we noticed the adjucant fmaily members were also travelling chennai - Dubai - New york JFK. They were so eager in purchasing a window seat at the flight and had a please sir please sir with the ticket counter fellow(he wears a coat suite so will be respected though he does the same job what our bus conductors do). The ticket fellow then came to us and said -"country fellows travelling in international flight". It was to the other family. I again had no words to describe and my wife ran out of the scene. We then took the flight and saw the other family travelling first time taking all photos of the seat,window, flight,apple,breakfast cup ......I laughed at my wife with a funny face and she did the same to me. Finallywe reached JFK and the new family got down the flight and they were clueless to go even in the escalator they were holding a queue behind them as they did not know how to step in. Me and my wife stood in the queue ashamed .We got stamped for port of entry and went to the hertz rent a car counter -got a Chevy Equinox SUV. We noticed the new family pushing their trolley and waiting for the pickup bus.

I could not resist and i slowly looked at my wife and said - "honey ,looking at the family we just travelled with i was taken back to our first flight experience". My wife said -"honey would that someone that day would have looked at us in this angle ?". There was a moment of silence well almost for a minute .We looked at each other and bursted out in laugh.

First time travellers are always happy of their own world.