Well here iam sitting at my desk totally jobless, wondering what to do... and voila suddenly i wonder why not do what i have been dying to do for last 2 years now!!! So here iam with my first blog.. Iam not really literary kind of a person but what the hell why not try it... and what best way other than sharing a real life incident involving a flight from chennai to bangalore some good 7-8 months back...
let me introduce you to charachters of my story first ;-)
The hero: Sujay (the impish hero :p )
Support cast: My dad, fellow passenger (god knows who he was) and of course Myself
The villain: Air deccan
So here iam waiting alongwith my dad at airport (as usual deccan was half an hour late and we had arrived one hour early) and suddenly we catch sujay looking at departure notification board.. his reactions are too obvious to give me hint that he may be travelling alongwith us.. we catch up on him and he confirms what i was thinking.. We all decide to have dinner at Golden chariot at Airport.. After hogging and stuffing (literally ;-) ) myself, I propose that we shall take our boarding passes as only 2o miutes are left for departure. While checking in my dad casually asks The deccan guy "So what time does the flight leave"?
Deccan guy: "sir the flight will leave at 10:15 p.m."
(look of astonishment on all our faces!!!!!!! it was 10:20 p.m. in our watches)
My dad: Its already 10:20 the flight was to leave at 10:40 no!!!!!!!
Deccan guy (Dazed but unapologetically) : "Sir that was earlier departure time, flight would now leave at 11:00 pm)
(Damn i think another half an hour delay, but what the hell its cheap airlines afterall :P )
So with boarding cards in our hands we await the departure call..
Voila there it is bang at 11:20 p.m and suddenly we see a stampede... My dad wonders what happened.. Me and sujay explain In deccan you can select seats on first come first serve basis... a big Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhh from Dad.....
Here we are standing to board the flight from the rear door (no one boarding from front) and an impish smile appears on sujays face... we whisper something to each other while my dad is looking at us wondering what these guys are upto.. we both suddenly move away from the queue and start walking quietly towards the front door.... and suddenly we increase our speed.. and before u know it now it the whole queue sprints towards the front door... and we devilishly return back to our queue with moi dad in front.. (after all they were not allowing ppl to board from front that day)... we laughed as some passenger gave us that devilish look and dad a big smirk on his face... we laugehd our hearts out till we got in our seats.. but wait the real story starts here........
The flight takes off and my dad seems a litte restless today.. he touches the window by finger and SHIT , the window "falls off and drops" on his lap with all eyes on him... suddenly all the people are tensed up in flght..
we summon the flight attendant among the rucous and tell her of the situaion.
Dad: "the window is fallen off, get me a complaint book"
Air hostess to my Dad : "Sir, WHAT!!!!! (astonished, looks at the window in dad's hand") .. oh sir outer window is o.k no??? then its alright..
(yeah right, as if outer window wouldn't have been there , we would 've still been there to ask for complaint book, we would have been doing what deccan boasts off "Simply fly" not to destination but to heaven)
and without even bothering to get complaint book she moves on.. my dads flabbergasted at her behaviour... and suddnly me and sujay are into laughs again because of her dialogue...
Slowly while laghing i notice Sujay's laughter turning to a smirk.. he whispers something into my ear... Now it was my turn to be dumbfounded.. he says he's gonna take the window.. i am like HOW??? His answer "just wait and watch"..
Flight lands and before other passengers could move Sujay gets up, goes to the Hostess and....
Sujay to air hostess : "i would like to take that window"
air hostess( rudely and with attitude) : "NO sir. Thats not possible."
Sujay (calmly) : Why not?
air hostess (still with attitude): " Sir, its a part of the flight"
Sujay(calmly and this time with attitude): "It doesn't look like"
whole of the crowd erupts into laughter. For a second even the second air hostess gives a smirk enjoying the whole scene.
Sujay (again, more kiddsihly) : Mam can i please have that window as momento? please please
(crowd enjoying all drama now)
Air hostess ( with no attitude this time and nothing better to say) : "Sir, maybe next time".
Hyuck hyuck.... they surely want us to Simply fly next time i thought... and so i decided no more deccan for me now on...
Things should change after Mallaya's takeover though cos kingfisher believe me is the best domestic flight i have flown in...
got too stretchy i guess but can't help it, couldn't cut any of it further....
so adios for now... catch you guys soon with some memoirs from my trip to coorg...
