A Journey to Remember!
It was a cold typical day there in Twin
Cities, Minneapolis. I had a flight to take back to Bengaluru, back
to my country and followed by a flight to Delhi to travel to my home
town. It was just a very normal day there and was bit excited to go
back home and the weather was a bit pleasant that day as Americans
says it but by Indian standards -22C can never be termed as a
pleasant day.
Anyways, after packing all the stuff in
that huge bag of mine and post doing all checking out formalities
from my hotel, I called my daily taxi guy, Mahmood and as usual he
was there in less than 10 mins to take to the St. Paul Airport. I had
to take a Delta Airlines flight, approx. 7 hr. to Paris and then an
Air France daily flight to Bengaluru. After doing my check-in, which
was also a bit exhausted because of too much Christmas rush, I moved
to the waiting lounge to rest as it’s another 2 hours I need to
wait before boarding.
I was praying that I don’t get those
kind of creepy guys around as they were when I was coming to
Minneapolis ( it’s a long story)., still I was sure God is never
with me during such kind of situations.
So, I started playing with the free
iPads on airport, watching live stream of Packers playing (these
Wisconsin guys are too lazy nowadays) and this girl next to me was
continuously staring at my screen and I was thinking she seems to be
a die-hard fan of packers (pun intended).
Then I heard an announcement related to
my flight and it was something that they are changing the seats
because some couples want to sit together and some don’t (strange
it is, I think they fought on airport only and went to airlines guys
to put them far on the plane). And this rejigs of the seats made the
flight delayed by 30 minutes and I was getting bored and bored and
hungry.
Finally, the boarding started and in 10
mins I was in plane searching for my seat 21A. I was going and going
and suddenly I found it and what it was seeing was an astonishing
sight. She was a girl in 20s sitting next to my seat. I can’t
believe how in the earth a lady like that will be sitting next to me
on a long flight. I was not able to remove my eyes out of her for
some instant and suddenly a tall guy screamed “ Hey, you, are you
gonna sit or just wanna travel standing” and my sense came back and
I put my luggage in the overhead cabin and excused that lady to let
me sit on my chair.
She was wearing red top, sporting boy
cut short hair, nice long earnings and a cute smile. I was just
staring at her as dumbstruck and suddenly she said “hey” and I
was like, “Really, is she saying this to me”. I said Hey too and
just tried to see out of window and the plane started taxing around
and everyone had a sigh of relief that finally, it’s moving.
Caption said, it’s a bad weather out
there so sit tight and we will be cruising soon and hope we will not
hit the storm over the New York. So, in few minutes we were in Air,
seeing the magnificent Twin Cities and its amazing lakes and the
sightings. The lady in RED was just busy with her book. It was a book
in French and I knew what she was reading because she was reading the
book which I have finished only few days back and have seen all three
season of Game of Thrones. SO, suddenly those pictures of Daneryssy,
jeoffery, Starks and lannisters started coming to my mind and the
plane was going in the clouds moving up and up.
I started seeing some videos on the
screen but I kept looking at her face. So, in 45 mins or something we
got something to drink and I had a glass of Juice which I have
finished in a gulp and asked for the second one along with some
peanuts and lady was looking at me (maybe she dint liked that :p).
She was having her red wine and some peanuts which she has asked me
if she should take as I have tasted them already.
So, post that I have started sipping it
very slowly like she was doing and just tried to concentrate on the
video on screen but in reality I my focus was going on her face again
and again. Then, a crew member came and dumped my vegetarian food on
my table like she dint liked that I was having the veg stuff instead
of what all others were having. Anyway, I was busy with the video
(and her face too), sipping my juice slowly and slowly. Then, after
few minutes, plane started shaking suddenly and the sign to tie the
seat belts switched ON and it’s started shaking more and both of us
started looking at each other with a smile.
She told, we should take our liquids in
our hands so they won’t get spilled on us. She put her book down
and had her wine in her hard and I had my juice and at the same
instant, something have happened and we got a major jerk and voila I
was wet with the Wine and she with my juice. And people started
screaming and the guys next to our seats had a coke on him.
The funny part was that the Wine
spilled on top of my head and I was fully drenched with that red wine
and you can see the wine on the windows, the cabin overhead and the
people next to us. She was wet with the juice I had but I was the one
who was completely soaked. Both of us started laughing hard while all
other people were scared to death. Suddenly, I have realized that my
veg food is on floor of the plane and I can feel that warm rice from
my socks. So, it’s all fully messed up there.
Caption was screaming, please sit
tight, there is more to come and it’s started shaking again and
both of us were just laughing and laughing. She was apologizing to me
for spilling her wine on top of my head and I was saying sorry to her
spilling my juice on her top. She started looking for some tissues in
her bag but she dint found and we were looking for crew to help us
but everyone was stuck to their chairs and scared. Now that pungent
wine smell started coming from my clothes and she was looking at my
face. She said I can’t believe this had happened and saying how she
will explain to her family back home as what exactly has happened.
Then soaked in those fluids we started
chatting, asking each other names. She was Glenn, working in Chicago
in a fashion magazine as a columnist and belongs to Lyon in France
going there for Christmas vacations with her family. After sometime
plane got settled and we got our tissues and she has changed to a
nice white top and I have changed my shirt. Then our chatting started
again with random things and about the France, palace of Versailles,
Chicago, India and Game of Thrones.
She took out a map and explained how
she will reach her home after renting a car from Charles De Gaulle
airport and will go to Lyon. And after few hours we were flying over
Paris where it was raining and the wind was strong too and pilot was
not able to land. Pilot took a very long turn and tried to land three
times but in vain and at last it started descending again from
another point on a different runway and our pilot has landed the
plane on 30 degrees and a jerk again and we were on the land and a
sigh of relief.
Now, it was time for me bid adieu to
Glen and what I see was she took the airlines blanket and stuffed in
her bag and I was like WHAT. Still, I said “au revoir” and she
said bye and we headed to our respective locations and this was how
my journey ended till Paris with those moments which I will never
forget in my life and that cute thief Glen too.
Though I have checked my wallet and
other things to verify if the cuteness has made me poorer of some
money buy thank god everything was intact except my box of
chocolates. :p
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