Things I've learned over the last week that possibly you might be interested in:
1. Bored at the airport? Find the Chanel perfume.
Last week I went on a quick weekend trip to Sana’a with a work friend. In my efforts to “practice arriving early” (please note Post: "I Know You", October 27), I arrived at the airport and made it through security with 40 mins to spare. And then I had nothing to do. My friend told me that when she is bored at airports she goes to Duty Free, finds The. Most. Expensive. Perfume on the shelf and sprays it all over herself. Sure, we average 31 years of age between the two of us but before you could say “American passport” we were in Duty Free looking for perfume. Within a few moments we located the latest Chanel, selling for a cool $100/ 8 oz. I chose the Nile-inspired version (perplexing since the Nile is full of "yuck"). My colleague chose the Taj Mahal-inspired version (perplexing since the entire city of Agra smells of, well, not good things that normally end up in the toilet). We respectively sprayed ourselves and the 5 foot vicinity area in it.
Bonus Travel Tip: When you board a plane full of people coming from Malaysia who have just finished up a long haul trip, you will find the plane trashed and smelling nauseatingly of body odor. At which point you will be very glad you sprayed yourself with the perfume and wished you given it one more squirt.
2. All the stories you've heard about gypsies are true. Beware and you've been warned.
"The gypsies are scary. They'll try to get you...You'll be innocently looking at something and then next thing you know 5 of them will have surrounded you forcing shawls into your face, as they move you closer and closer to their wagon and then BAM! You are locked in a cage and your friends have no idea what happened. True story."
Thank you, Susan, for wise words shared.
5 comments:
This is why I never go to see you in D.C. You're never there! I generally swing by once or twice a week, but I guess my timing's no good. Is this because my family smells like "airplane folk" and behaves like gypsies? Quit blowing us off, man.
Gypsies:
They will kiss you and touch every part of your body with their hands while other, erstwhile, gypsies are picking your pockets. Then, you will have to body check them because physically pulling their hands out of your pockets isn't bad enough. Also they will try and keep you off trains. With children. Basically, gypsies are the worst.
Thank you for the travel tips. I can just imagine you repelling gypsies with clouds of expesive perfume. You're like a superhero, but no cape.
Don't forget the Broadbent Urban Legend that gypsies will throw birdseed at you, and then (while you're fighting off the ensuing pigeon attack) they'll steal your camera!
clearly I touched a nerve. who knew that the kearl family was tortured so by gypsies. table this discussion till the "Funky Family Room" at Lava Hot Springs...
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