funkybaby:

Yeah, nice topic.

I had to travel urgently to Jos late last year. I had depended on Nicon airways (they offered rebate tickets) only to call them to book and be told that their licence had been suspended by the authorities. I had no other choice but arik air. On getting to their stand at the International airport, i was told that flights to Jos were from the Old local airport and only flights to abuja took off from the international airport and that i had less than 15mins before the plane departs.

I then rushed outside to pick a cab. The dude charged me 3,500 naira just to drop me at the local airport from international airport. I begged the dude, flashed my nysc id card, the guy wont reconsider. All i had on me was the money i had budgeted for a DIRECT flight from lagos to jos.

After coughing out the money, i got to the local airport and i had missed the flight to jos. I had to buy chachangi's ticket to abuja. They offered no rebate. This meant i had to board a cab from abuja airport to jabi park before then joining a vehicle to jos.

With a gloomy face, i boarded the flight, thinking of how much i would pay to those greedy abuja airport cab drivers (this would leave me with very little or no money to get to jos) and it is almost impossible to 'stroll' out of abuja airport to the major road.

To cut the story short, an elderly man sat beside me on the plane and he started a conversation and we ended up talking about the crazy air fares, missed flights, air mishaps, etc. Told him my experience that morning. He just laughed and told me to serve my country and stay put at jos. Anyway, he asked his driver to drop me at jabi park and even paid my fare to Jos. God bless him because without him that day, being cash strapped with just my cab fare to jos, i do not know how i would have left abuja airport.   

landis:

I was in shopping mall in northern Malaysia: Kota Bharu.

This is purely a muslim town. It reminded me of Ibadan but much more developed.

Some group of  mean-looking-people saw me and started shouting at me: AMERICANA. AMERICANA

I was scared to death; I don't want to be kidnapped or Bombed. What would I tell my mama in Naija.

I shouted back: NO, NO NO. No Americana


Nigeria, Nigeriana. Nigerian. Africa.


The shop owner said Okocha? I said yes. Nigeriana. He talked to them.

Funny enough: they left me alone. I got out town with next available flight back to KL.

~What a lovely way to start my day!! Your Post got me ROTFLMAO . . .Scary it it must have been for you,am sure you see the humour in it now!!

tRoOE:

This guy gave me his phone to use on the flight from UK to Naija, I couldn’t use my cell becos I don't want sprint to charge me 4 international dialing. I could have used a public phone in the airport but my flight from NY landed late, and i had to change the money to pound before i was allow to dial out. The trouble was just to much to go through jare

I meet a lot of kind people but[b] they are mostly males[/b] , one actually fall in lust with me in my 6hrs flight !!Gosh men

~"Damsel In Distress"!!~ 

~Must have been an Interesting Flight @ 6hrs Lust