Overheard on Easyjet:
So, as you know, I thoroughly enjoyed my people-watching at Gatwick but the next level up in entertainment value is eaves-dropping. I know this isn’t a very virtuous pastime but when you’re piled into a plane and delayed for an hour with no headphones (cheers Easyjet…) it’s a little difficult NOT to listen to the conversations going on around you!
As I was travelling solo I had plenty of time to pretend to read and one particular conversation was absolute gold it would be rude not to share it!!
As I was a lowly fly-on-the-wall I’ll call the parties involved A and B:
A: I’d like to go back to America and go somewhere other than Disney…
B: Yeah? Where would you want to go?
A: Umm, I’d like to go to LA and ... Los Angeles... and umm what’s that gambling place?
B: Las Vegas
A: Yeah there… I’d like to go to LA to go to that prison… umm what’s it called? On an island…
B: Fort Boyard? (At this point I was smirking to myself trying to not laugh)
A: No… they did a film about it… Oh yeah Shiraz. That’s it, Shiraz!
B: Hmmm don’t know it…
By now I’m thinking do I butt in and tell them it’s Alcatraz and San Francisco but risk sounding like a pretentious dick... Nope, I’ll just keep quiet and carry on smiling!
The conversation carried on in the same vein, repetition of wanting to visit LA AND Los Angeles (neither of them realising it was the same place) and incorrectly naming a variety of other US place names while I I struggled to keep the smirk off my face and not bust out laughing!
It was probably one of those #HadToBeThere moments but I thought it was too funny not to share!!!
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