Please fasten your seatbelts.
I’ve recently discovered the best muscle tightening exercise known to man. A flight between Copenhagen and Warsaw in an aircraft that’s only identifying marks were the airline logo and a safety statement that referred to the aircraft a ‘Q400’. A what? I’ve never heard of one of those! Who makes those? More importantly, who services those and how regularly? I’m sure my face was a picture perfect replica of Edvard Munch’s ‘The Scream’ as I stepped off the transport bus onto the tarmac in Copenhagen airport. My initial thought; where’s the real airplane and why have they let us off the bus in front of this antique, pretend, wannabe aircraft? Obviously someone working for the airline had a sense of humour as when I managed to drag my eyes away from the rather narrow body, faded paint job and silver propellers, which I found myself staring at in a sort of terrified disbelief, I noticed the quote painted next to the entry door, which read “An open mind is the best travelling companion.” Obviously a number of Munch’s muses had boarded said aircraft over the last number of years and some airline marketing whiz kid had decided that putting this quote on the side of the aircraft was the best way to placate the terrified passengers. This comedic genius undoubtedly won employee of the month as even in my distressed state I managed to break a shaky smile at the appropriateness and the irony. The one hour and fifteen minute flight to Warsaw seemed to take an eternity and was bumpier than the face of an adolescent male. When we finally landed, I realised that I was going to be as sore (if not sorer) as someone who had spent the last hour on a Nordic-trac machine. Not until I sat on the bus transporting the passengers to the terminal building in the Frederic Chopin airport did my body relax. I am, no doubt, going to require a full body massage to recover. “How tragic?” I hear you say. ;-)
posted by Kath @ 11:50
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