A Faulty Johnson Rod

Free lunch. Woo hoo.

So here i sit at 158pm near gate 37 at Sydney Airport waiting to board my flight that is due to leave at 4pm, but was originally due to leave at 1005am before it was changed to 1120am. But first we need to go back back back (cue going back in time music) to the start of the day.

Woke early only to receive a message from Cathay Pacific that our flight would be delayed a bit over one hour. Excellent. I wouldn't have to wake up our grumpy ride to the station early. But we did anyway. It did give me the chance to walk to the shops in order to buy a loaf of bread for soon to be chefless son. We are away 26 days, so yeah, a loaf should see him through.

Then my mind set to breakfast. What's the best food for travelling in a crowded cylinrical and air conditioned container? Mmmmm why not finish that can of baked beans?

To the airport we went. At the speed of Cityrail we travelled. Checked in our bags in no time at all, having to pause briefly for photos as I won an award for "lowest weight of luggage" for the category of 26 days or more away. 9.6kg. A new record!

Then we joined the longest queue ever, until we joined our next queue, which broke the record of the last queue.

Once again they chose my chiselled specimen for the full body scan. As the only passenger in the airport wearing shorts and a t shirt it was just natural that I was trying to hide something. The scan indicated that I needed to be "patted down" unless I wanted the alternative. Visions of that Blink 182 album cover shot through my mind, so patting down it was. Cue Seinfeld reference 2, the title being number 1. After a light patting down of my thighs, it didn't move. Apparently it was just my suspicious hanky.

Annette proceeded to claim back $57 of gst for spending a fortune which may come in handy if it reaches our credit card before the end of the trip. 

To gate 37 we went where we were just in time to wait, until we boarded the plane where we waited until our Captain, and I cant remember his name, advised us that a light was flashing on his dashboard. Immediately, the international traveller in me suspected Johnson Rod. " this could take a while" i thought. Then halfway through Family Guy we were told to get off the flight. Then we got our $20 hush voucher. What 2 people could spend $40 in lunch? One hamburger, one steak sandwich and a pepsi max later, lunch cost an additional$1.50.

Thats when everything that has happened so far proved to work out.

You see, had we been mid air at the time of the completion of the hamburger, just at the time the baked beans kicked in, then the proximity of the toilet on the plane in relation to our seats may well have caused a problem.

That's it so far. Still waiting to leave and listening to the staff talk about overtime.