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Are you feeling puky?

Hope my readers don't share this sentiment in the affirmative.  No I hope not.   I did hear this remark loudly on an Air India flight from Mumbai to Delhi. This was our maiden flight with India's national carrier and while our overall trip was only delayed by 90 minutes it was exceptional in many amusing ways.

We left Mumbai for Ranchi (caputal of newly created state of Jharkhand), which was via Delhi which meant two take offs and two landings. I dread such arrangements but getting to our final destination of Jamshedpur (3 hour drive east of Ranchi) leaves us with not many options.

It was during our first leg to Delhi that some lady passanger in a row front of us lost their abdominal composure and began showing facial stress.  The air hostess noticed her plight and decided this breaking news was worth sharing with the entire flight which was getting bored out of their mind staring at soiled seatbacks.

So began a detailed Q and A between hostess and passanger with tips to avoid feeling
nauseous during flight.

Having dealt with this incident she turned her attention during landing towards an errant child that had decided that the best policy during this time was to use his seat like a trampoline.  I was eager to see the results of the test but our super aggressive hostess spoiled it.

'Do you want a big injection from our doctor? ' was her admonishment / threat to this toddler.  Then in a more direct tone of a chess master saying 'check mate'  she yelled 'sit down' to which this experimenting young one relented along with its sheepish father acquesicing to the hawai sundari's not so sunder bhasha.

We landed in Delhi on time but then then plane broke.  Saying 'broke down' is redundant since we were already on the ground so we could not have gone more down.

We only discovered this after the Delhi departees had disembarked and we awaited the new batch to board to head out to Ranchi.


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