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| A corner store in Ethiopia inadvertently sums up my Ethiopian experience |
What if you had merely booked a flight to Uganda?
Is there a difference? Turns out there is. I had booked my flight, but hadn’t confirmed my flight to Uganda.
What this meant in practice was that I was one of four poor bastards left behind to watch our booked (but not confirmed) flight disappear into the difference.
This meant I was in some sort of transit limbo in Ethiopia.
What was even more concerning was what had happened to the solar panels I was transporting? I harassed and re-harassed many airline staff and they ensured me that the panels would be on the flight I would be on.
But, ya know…. *shrugs*
The four of us left did the walk of the damned through the airport as we were shuffled between various checkpoints before being carted off to the Pacific Hotel. I was woken after six hours of comatose sleep before being carted off back to the airport.
I know have a boarding pass. I’ll probably be on the 10 o’clock flight to Uganda and pick up my luggage and solar panels.
But, ya know…. *shrugs*
Post script: Happy ending!
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