Have you ever missed a flight........................well it’s a bad experience,
I have missed buses on more than one occasion but there is huge difference
between the two; buses easy you just go to the booking office the guy writes
open on your ticket and you can use it any other day and in my case I have used a
ticket 6 months later.
Let’s
just say I have the bad habit of underestimating the time that is required to get
from point A to point B and I'm mostly like 5 minutes early or just on time. A
little background on me and my time issues and what it has made me miss I
was to have my braces removed in December and left the house to the doctors
place at 2.30PM on the 23rd figured I will be there in time and I still had to
go the bank, the line at the bank!!!!!!!!!!!! apparently every one banks with the listening caring financial partner, I reached the doctors place at around 5.10
and found this notice on their door'We are closed for the holidays and will re-open on the 3rd of January, what do I do I buy cake go home have a lot of tea
and cake after all these two have a way of making everything better
right?, There is a time I stayed up up-to 4am making a presentation, requested
extension on internal deadlines a lot of times basically I am a last minute person, more than
anything I need to work on my timeliness of making it to places.
So back
to the sad story of me missing a flight first my work place will make you pay
for a flight that you miss and these flight are expensive and why oh why is
that when you miss a flight you always arrive when its just taking off so you
see it and wish you could run and make it stop.If I was a child I would
have started crying but the adult that I am have to behave mature about it. Me
and Bare (our driver) stand there and look at it leave he starts blaming me for
the lateness and he says it me who made us late.He goes like why did you stop
to have tea,surely dude has no courtesy, I buy him tea and he blames me for it. If I spoke I would cry so I just keep quite and look at
the plane take off.thinking of how I'm going to explain why I was a no-show and
I can't say we decided to have tea on our way to the airstrip how can I make
such poor judgement!!!!!!!!!
We stand
there in silence and watch the plane disappear a guy comes and asks us
'what are you doing here?' we tell him our story and he says I think there is
another flight.You should have seen us get into the car. we get into
the airstrip and indeed there are 2 more flights and I thank God for my lucky
stars(but I celebrate too early)
To avoid
going back to the office and explain the story of how I missed the flight I
decide to sit at the waiting shed. Atleast I'm not the only one who ,missed
the flight there was also someone else but he seemed less worried
than I was.We were relieved that we would get a flight to so we started
looking at the positive like we will still get to Nai and not have a long time
at Moga in transit and..................generally trying to see the glass as half full so
we kill time and talk about a lot of stuff, 'our' flight comes but unfortunately
it develops technical problems and its official we are NO SHOWs.now I'm truly
worried I go back to the office do the dreadful e-mail it reads in part 'I
was scheduled to travel to Nairobi today but unfortunately I did not make for
the first flight and a later flight was cancelled. This is because the driver’s
wife went into labour on Saturday and therefore we could not travel from Luuq
to Dollow on Saturday as was the initial plan. We travelled from Luuq to Dollow
today in the morning and due to security reasons could not leave earlier than
6.30 am. We arrived in Dollow at 8:35 am but the plane doors had been
closed and no one could board(a lot of stories being a no show is a serious offence
here) ............................................... I’m requesting
if you could talk to the UNHAS Nairobi office and see if it’s possible that
they put me on the Tuesday flight.
I pray that it will work out and wait for Monday
Lady
luck decided she has been too mean and goes easy on me the flight guys
agree to re-book me for free on the next flight but I have learnt my lesson
from now hence forth I'm going to be in time for everything Insha aa Allah
