1.登機起飛
我們走的時候去機場登機離開那段旅程,趕上唐僧帶徒弟們去西天取經了。
一大早,我們把行李數件拿門口,因為叫的出租已經來電話說到了。可門口除了那株開小粉花的玫瑰在晨曦中安靜的吐納著芬芳,街道靜悄悄的,沒有車和人的影子。不一會兒見一輛淡藍色車穿過,我暗想,早起勤勞的人還是有很多啊。不多久,這輛車又重新出現在眼前,車裏人衝我們招呼,我以為她要問路。哪裏知道她就是我們要等的出租車。
這輛家居型出租車沒有任何標誌,裏麵也沒有裏程表。開車大姐熱情的招呼著滿臉狐疑的我,“對不起剛才走錯街道了。那條街也有這個門牌號。我就是你們叫的車。上車吧。”那種熱情,把清晨的清涼都驅散開了。我們看看也沒有其他車了。信任是基礎,我念叨著,指揮大家上了車。
大姐一邊和我們拉家常,無非是去哪裏等等,車飛快的開了出去。可應該直行的路,她輕巧的一拐彎,進了加油站。“對不起,對不起,我得先加個油。”她依舊對待顧客向春風一樣溫暖,可我臉上已經寫滿了秋天的肅殺了。她出了加油站,還問我“去機場是往東走還是往西走?”我就不留情的掃落葉一般,對她轟炸了。“你這到底怎麽回事呢?出租車也沒牌子,還不認路?”
要說大姐還是涵養好,“沒錯沒錯,我就是出租,雖然沒牌子,可我們公司出租車有好多不同類型的。你們不是人多吧,才特意開得這輛。別急,一會兒就到了。”“你送客人去過機場嗎?”“去過去過,我就是加油出來一下迷糊了。”我心裏隻好又念了口號,“寬容寬容,今年要寬容。”就沉下臉不吱聲了。
大姐還在很好心情的和我說話,介紹了自己從哪裏來的,在過幾個禮拜父母也要來。一路就到了機場,下車時候,我問,“多少錢呢?”她報了一個比我平常出租車要高2倍的價錢。我終於又一次爆發,“你太離譜了。我平常隻要你一半錢這麽多。”大姐眨巴著眼睛,“難道也是這麽早嗎?”我說,“半夜來都是那個價。”她給公司打手機,我直接說,“沒時間了,我給你們老板講。”由於我一早上氣憤已經累積到最高閾值,閘口一放,我洶湧而出滔滔不絕把怨氣都衝著那三寸手機吼出去了。
最後結果是,我扔下我平常應該付的價錢,多加了兩塊錢,帶領大家,行李也都拿全了,逃離了出租車。臨走時候看見大姐還幽怨地說,剩下的差價要她自己補。
到了國際化大機場這叫一個壯觀,人流不息,生生不止。我親愛的媽媽一激動,說要去廁所,廁所還得去樓下,要繞大半圈。俺爹怒吼,“你怎麽剛出門就要去廁所?”俺媽怒吼回去,“早上不喝了你買的牛奶嗎?叫你不買你偏買,你又不喝完,出門幾天都浪費了。”我揮揮手,遣散了他們去找廁所,我去排隊。等那沒浪費的牛奶終於到了該到的去處,此時,離我預計的時間已經晚了半個多小時。
於是我帶著大家急行軍過安檢,被安檢攔下我們可疑的背包,三罐八寶粥和一小罐鹹菜壯烈犧牲。同時犧牲的還有我爹的刮胡子膏,沒想到他還這麽愛美。我和我媽都詫異地看了他,他慚愧的低下了頭。
於是,大家趕緊穿好鞋子,我爹的鞋比蜈蚣的百腳多好些個孔洞。等我帶著他們來到坐車的地方,看見上麵紅燈閃爍,還有20秒就要開了。俺百忙之中沒忘記查看應該去的Gate,真是有好心人啊,大老黑司機同誌看見我們一行,主動問我們哪個航班的,我回答了航班名稱,他彎下高高的頭拍拍我說,“快上車,這趟就去。”我們就踏上了西行的列車去Gate。
這期間,大約有10分鍾美好的靜謐,機場機務繁忙有序,飛機們英姿颯爽。可惜沒看見日出東南隅。我看了看表,雖說緊張點,已經開始登機了,隻要到Gate就沒問題了。
然後到了Gate,一下車,我眼見滿眼的都是字母B,可我要去的是D Gate。我讓大家不要亂跑,詢問了一個開飛機的,他穿著製服,很有經驗地告訴我們,“你們的Gate不在這裏,需要坐車在回總航站,然後再坐其他車去D 門。”俺鎮定的拉著大家往回奔,這位開飛機的大叔在後麵衝我大聲地喊“謝謝,謝謝。”切,大敵當前我沒和他計較什麽,我回來再講文明禮貌不行嗎?
奔回來剛好看見那位助人為樂的黑人司機同誌,他得知送我們錯了地方,也很氣憤。抓起車前麵的電話,通知總台,“你們牌子寫錯了。那個航班不是在B Gate。你們最好改過來,省得大家犯錯誤。”等料理完這些事情,又開著車送我們回原來的大家係鞋帶的地方了。
再剩下的事情,我就不羅嗦了。總之大家都看過好萊塢的電影了,基本就是壞人抓007或者黑社會抓黑社會的場景。我在百米奔跑中發現,我娘身體最好,她跑得比我還快。我爹不行了,但他耐力還不錯,這裏麵就我速度和耐力都跟不上。拍這種警匪片可真不容易啊。等最終跑到Gate檢票的就等我們仨了。
上了飛機剛係好安全帶,飛機就直插藍天白雲去了,我們期待的美好愉快的旅途就真正開始了。
俺爹怒吼,俺媽怒吼回去,
our family always like this as well
俺有一次在路上耽誤了,鐵定得誤機了,到了機場才知那班飛機誤點了~~
噢,秋月冬雪,你們姐倆兒的照片真好看。可愛極了。
趕火車
我們從長沙坐火車去廣州再搭飛機去馬來西亞,把豆豆的推車忘在家裏了。結果隻能大部分時間抱著他,尤其是他睡著的時候。去廣州的火車晚點,我們為了能趕上飛機,換了一班也是晚點但是比原來那趟早的列車。
一開始不知道是上那一號車廂,我們跑了很長的路去12號車廂,結果又折回來去5號車廂。我抱著32磅的豆豆一路狂奔,LD和一個送我們的親戚拿行李在前麵跑。終於來到5號車廂了,向列車員求情說要趕飛機,才讓我們上的。
上了火車,好不容易擠到補票台,隻買到一張臥鋪票和一張站票。怎麽辦呢,7個小時的火車啊!LD就把我就和豆豆安置好,然後去餐車買了100圓的坐票。到了早上六點,餐車的人又要趕人走了,LD就買了一份早餐,就一直坐下去。
下了火車,LD提兩件背一件行李,我抱著豆豆去奔出口。從出口到車站又是大概1000米的距離。我們匆忙奔跑向的士車站。快到車站時,我實在抱不動豆豆了,把他放下來牽手繼續跑。終於坐上的士,我們囑咐司機我們要趕飛機,請他加快。幸好最後順利上了飛機。感覺真的像在逃難啊。
若幹年前,也曾在芝加哥機場有場類似遭遇,登機後就剩下喘氣的力氣了。
謝謝明亮的遊記,篇篇精彩!
After returning to the point where I joined the queue to terminal 4, I started realising why she wasn't certain about it. To go to terminal 1, I had to wait for a transfer bus along with many others, and once I got to terminal 1, there were like millions of people stuffed up waiting to proceed through. I challenged my patience by waiting in the queue for 5 minutes, and saw no hope that I would have got through by waiting in the queue, I started pushing through the crowd in front of me, apologising along the way, letting everyone know that I only had 15 minutes left before the plane took off and I didn't want to be left behind, blah blah blah... I started sweating when I got to a check point and was told I was once again at the wrong place, I hated the London Heathrow airport more than anywhere in the world. I thought I could read English, like many other people believe that I could, but all the complicating signs and information flying from everywhere just kept throwing me to the wrong places. I lost my pretended calmness and started to run at that point. When I eventually got to the boarding gate, I was nearly out of breath, it was 7 minutes to 8:20am. However I was told that the flight was delayed and there was no hurry for me to board the flight as there was no one having boarded yet. What a shit! Sorry about my Spanish.
The flight wasn't delayed for 10 minutes as they first told me, it was delayed for 1 hour and a half. The captain apologised for the delay, but his British humour didn't get to me and rather, made me really nervous. He said,” The plane we were supposed to fly this morning had some technical problems that I am not fully aware of, but as you know, when you are flying with British Airways, we always have a spare one at hand. So we pulled this one out of the wardrobe, cleaned it and prepared it...and on and on." The mentioning of pulling a plane out of a wardrobe and cleaning it only meant to me that the plane was an old craft and was never touched for a long time. I was worried that the 'newly-out-of-wardrobe' aircraft would throw us off from the sky at some point, and my worry went more serious when we had encountered a bad turbulence while we were already in the territory of Spain. Nothing terrible happened, otherwise I would not be sitting here typing it all out, but the landing was a dramatic shake as well, although I always say I don't fear death, I didn't want to die right there in that poor old plane after travelling all the way from Australia. At least I should see some of Madrid first, right?
兩年前的經曆了,抄過來跟你湊個趣兒。:)
http://blog.wenxuecity.com/blogview.php?date=200806&postID=38690
片片很震撼,等一下介紹我家領導來學習一下。嗬嗬
機場這事我也幹過一次,在國內,那天,下大雪,朋友送我去機場,他一個勁兒提醒他的司機,小心開,小心開,結果那車就跟烏龜爬行差不多!我衝進大廳的時候,gate幾乎就要關了,我大叫,可能是陰曆臘月二十九的緣故,機場人員照顧回家過年的旅客,那gate 就為我開著,還允許我拿著兩大件行李登機,我是最後一個上去的。和慢性子的打交道真是把人急死啊!!
我一般是看到自己特別想要的東西,會全力以赴地爭取. 有時也會闖禍,但基本最後都能擺平.我嘴巴是很饞,有點像那個功夫熊貓裏的熊貓阿寶.如果說讓我上癮的東西,我想應該是一種挑戰的快感.
punny,哈哈,你也幸運。我覺得大家都有快誤機的時候,那句話不是叫,常在機場走,怎能不誤機嗎?:)))
whispering weakly: a typo?
開車的大姐真可憐.:))
歌兒,切,你自己講講你為什麽演追捕吧。你看我一路遇上事情多多啊,還多虧我留出的時間富裕啊。:)
我前邊有人嗎?坐到你身上別介意啊,不要跟‘忙’人計較嘛。:))
哈哈,有趣有趣
好喜歡咱爸咱媽,講話,跑步都像我大餅自己的爸媽,喜歡阿!
jwayne_1, 要不你還是把我當黑熊吧,碰上就算好了。:) 我總覺得我父母很奇怪的,難得你也有共鳴啊。:)
嗯,麥片,是有驚無險。反正咱人都回來了,你們就放心吧。:)
哈哈哈哈,原來黑車事件後有那麽多好玩的,明亮的確很有大將風範,那麽鎮靜的,嗬嗬
你有多勤快,我就有多忠實:)
等那沒浪費的牛奶終於到了該到的去處,此時,離我預計的時間已經晚了半個多小時。---哈哈,哈哈:)
同時犧牲的還有我爹的刮胡子膏,沒想到他還這麽愛美。我和我媽都詫異地看了他,他慚愧的低下了頭。----我也替他感到臉紅,哈哈哈,哈哈哈:)