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Back on Boracay: Part 2 (crazy girl)
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The Korean Air flight from Stateside was interesting as I had been awake for 45 hours, was having trouble thinking straight, body aches – then a Korean girl (late 20′s) starts flipping out. She complained of stomach pain but couldn’t describe it, then looked confused, tired, tried wandering around. They isolated her to the back, lying on the kitchen floor where she rotated crying, mumbling, humming, puking, and arguing.
When they called on the intercom doctors or medics on the plane, a few of our eyes met and knew we’d better keep our mouths shut. One idiot didn’t and went back where they expected him to do some over-the-Pacific life saving — what a dumb-ass. Watched her a few times trying to wander off, trying to sleep but not making it, stomach pain…. I knew exactly what it was. This girl was on shrooms at 40,000 feet and couldn’t handle it.
They put her in my center row seating right about the time I started hallucinating tracers from a lack of sleep and too much cold medication. She appeared to be the only one noticing my condition and tried telling me it was gonna be OK. Great, the crazy girl is taking care of me now.
She spoke English but kept using some kind of hand signals to communicate… oddly enough, I understood. She couldn’t figure out if she was hot or cold. I slept finally and we woke to differing movies…. of course, I was thinking of taking her for a mile-high club membership but figured I’d get arrested for taking advantage of a crazy person. She signed her desire for my bottle of Gatorade – I gave it to her. Not because I was nice but ’cause I wanted to shag her in Korea.
Woke again shortly before landing……… she was gone. Her stuff was gone. The flight attendants asked where she had gone to which worried me, losing a person on a plane over the Pacific Ocean doesn’t normally happen.
Korean Air planes are nice and the service staff has got to be the best service attendants I’ve seen anywhere in the world. One note, unless you speak Korean, take your own entertainment. The western movies are in Korean and even the subtitles are in an Asian symbol-language. The in-flight magazines are mostly Korean as well as the SkyMall, which is huge but mostly women’s cosmetics and accessories…. and in Korean. An mp3 player with a lot of blue-collar comedy recordings goes a long way.
The flight back didn’t go as planned so I never made it through Moscow but instead stayed in Seoul overnight and got back a day earlier than planned. I gotta say, Koreans (in Korea) are possibly the nicest, most polite humans I’ve ever encountered. Considering how they act here… who knew? Guess I went from living 15 years in war zones to living in the Philippines a few years ago, and forgot what real hospitality and nice people were like. People in the US are also nicer than here but Koreans take the award, hands down.
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I lived there for a year and thought they were pretty nice people too. And I was all over Korea.
Sep 18, 2009 at 3:24 PM -
Koreans nice? Your lack of sleep definately skewed your observations…but you were here one nite. Try living here for 10 years. The younger Koreans are the same here as they are in Boracay. There is a lot of racism, prejudice and anti-Americanism here…you just don’t see it and ave to deal with it.
Sep 18, 2009 at 7:34 AM
@Rod: Could be true, after all you live there, not me. I can only go from my small experience, which was really pleasant. Not just the service people either, I mean even strangers. No-one tried scamming me for money, getting rude when they found I wasn’t gonna buy from them, charging me a different rate than locals, etc…
And that Inchon airport is pretty nice too although it’s not easy finding a simple pub with WiFi, plenty of restos upstairs but no WiFi. A large free internet cafe’ but no beer. But man, they do like smoking… every 20 feet was a hi-tech looking smoking room.
Sep 19, 2009 at 2:08 AM