Special Guest
The other day, when I was in the plane from Orange County to Fort Lauderdale, I was reading a magazine when the flight attendant made an announcement. Normally I just ignore them, but since my encounter with the special announcements at Kulula, I thought: perhaps it’s worth listening to it. And it was! Not that it was specially funny, but rather bizarre - at least for a not-so-patriotic Swiss:
Dear passengers we would like to welcome aboard this plane a special guest.
After this sentence, I thought: well, normally you don’t announce celebrities and other “special” passengers like that; but before I could continue thinking about it, the flight attendant continued:
[He] just said good bye to his family in Orange County and is now on his way to serve his country in Iraq. Please make this long flight for him as comfortable as possible.
What followed was a big applause - thankfully we were in a plane, otherwise it might have ended up in a standing ovation.
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