Eye catching title right??? Its a bit exaggerated, but not far from the truth. I’ve just returned from a very short trip back from the South of France for the Cannes Film Festival. This trip I will definitely blog later, for now. a short story about the end of my trip. Just to update, I’ve returned fatigued like no other.
So from Nice, France, Wesley & Debbie dropped us off at the airport to grab our flight to London. We took EasyJet Airlines aka Refugee airlines aka the Southwest Airlines of France except ghettoer. They charged me for water on the plane when I was coming into France. So, on this trip, I had barely slept, and decided to do all my sleeping on the planes, and pretty much knocked out to my Khalil Fong playlist on my brothers Ipod. I woke up w/ this unbelievable thirst and craving for food. When we got off in London, I told Kevin & Jae (my travel partners from FM) that I would be real quick and would meet them at the next terminal for our next flight from London to Philly.
I whisked my way to a currency exchange where the guy blatantly ripped my ass off.
Scene : London Airport.
Tom : Hi! heres 20bucks, can i just ask how much pounds would i get if I was to exchange this?
Londouche guy : <click clack click clack> it would be around 9.15 pounds because we take away 3pounds as a service fee…
Tom : (damn thats a lot) hm……welll…thats okay then….(i’m saying it in a tone, that I don’t want it)
Londouche guy : <click clack> here we go…
Tom : uhhhhh i didn’t want to exchange it
Londouche : too late…here we go…
Tom : motherfucker….<under my breath>
So thats just part of it…I run to mickeydees, and get my food run to the terminal. So as I walk into the terminal I see 3 guys & a girl getting searched and getting their stuff checked. Now they didn’t look islamic? or middle eastern or anything. They looked like Akon & Akons brothers & Sister. As I walked by I didn’t think much of it to be honest, because I thought thats kind of messed up…”racial profiling”
As we board the plane I had realized that Kev & Jae would be sitting together and I was by myself like 10 rows a head. So Picture this was the seating chart. I was in 22C…and 22B & A were empty..So was 23ABC.
e= empty / Me=Me
<e><e><Me>
<e><e><e>
Thats how it looked like. Well then comes Akon & Family boarding the plane, and they sit next to me. I didn’t think much of it at first. Once again I’m a very like whatevs about the situation, till the captain comes to us. The captain ask the guys for their tickets. Now I see in his hand, that theres a ticket stub, but the captain wanted the Etickets, but they don’t have it. So the captain leaves and gets another guy. Once again same questions, and Akon (the leader) couldn’t speak english and just gave the captain the Itinerary they had. So this time the Captain makes all of them get off the plane.
At this point, I”m thinking “cool…i have my own row”
But nope another dude comes aboard w/ a CTU vest or something and a badge that says CRIMESTOPPERS and ask if he can inspect my row. He starts tearing through the seats and looking through all the crevices and what not to see if there was anything suspicious. At this point I was kind of freaked out.
Me : I don’t want to sound weird or anything but should I be worried that I’m sitting there.
Stewardess: No no, this is to make you feel safe.
Me : eh…this doesn’t make me feel too safe.
After a 15 minute thorough search, I was informed that I could sit at my seat. Then 5 minutes later Akon’s Sister come back and the stewardess said she could sit anywhere she wanted…(So you’re thinking she sits in the row behind me right?) Nope! She decides to sit RIGHT NEXT TO ME. not even like WIndow Seat next to me…MIddle Seat next to me. (Thats like calling the middle seat when theres only 2 people riding in the backseat. ) I’m so thrown off by this, even the stewardess suggest that she could have her own row, but nope, she decides to sit right next to me.
So thats my exciting trip back.
I’ve been very much fatigued since I’ve been back. I’m trying to rest up. for anybody going to Vegas Memorial Weekend, I’ll be there!
I’ll come back w/ a super adventures update… I promise
- Tom Neezy
ISA x BoBz
