Saturday, April 10, 2010

You should have seen the poor thing trying to move around with the airbags happening and the plane movements. She surely ended with a couple of bruises. A couple of minutes later she came back holding herself from any thing she could. As she was passing by me I stopped her and asked her if everything was fine. She answered a simple yes with a really scared face. I grabbed her hand to try to comfort her but she got scared and took her hand away almost instantly. To try to recover from that i winked and told her - Faster your seatbelt. She tried to smiled and se went back to her seat.

Shortly after the captain made another announcement - Dear passengers, i would like to inform you that we will be arriving to Narita shortly. A Please remain seated with your seatbelt fastened... (really? I believe it will be easier to use the “Technology” from the roller coasters that way that way the wouldn't have to ask nicely, although I don't think anyone want to stand up now)... there might be more turbulence.. (Oh my God!, really? is that possible? I though the drying cycle was over already!)

I turned to see my neighbor and he was sweating. He seemed to have merged with the seat and i told him while i smiled - a little nervous? I have never felt so much hatred towards me in my life. I felt his glare so strongly that it almost reached my brain. I was just glad that he was graving on to his seat so tightly that his wasn't going to hit me. Suddenly another airbag reminded me the “might be more turbulence” part.

We went down and then up, down again and up again and we we could see some lights we went up again... and again... and again. The comforting part was that the airplane movement and the air bags didn't happened as frequently as before, or maybe it was that we were closer to the ground and we had a greater survival rate if we crashed. The problem was that our time was running out, the typhoon was getting closer. As the time passed the tension increased.

After a while we heard another announcement - Dear Passengers (I regret to inform that we are running out of fuel)... I would like to inform you that because of the weather conditions we wont be landing at the Narita airport as planned and we will reroute to the airport that we were assigned to (Please let it be on the south!, on the south!) we will update the information on the screens in front of your seats. Please remain seated with your seat belts fastened. (Well it seems the gas was not a problem, or as usual it is the problem and as always no one is informed).

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