Plane Stories — Part 1
I want to start a series where I share my plane stories I have with the passengers next to me. Back in the day, I used to fly a lot and I would always ask the person next to me “Going home?” to start off a friendly conversation (no I wasn’t trying to hit on them, I was generally curious). However, you would have no idea the success rate that it had starting an actual hours long conversation. The things you learn about these complete random strangers that I may never see again was just, wild. Not that they were telling me crazy things (okay, maybe some of them were crazy) but the fact that we are complete random strangers that just happened to cross paths at that exact time and we’re now connecting for those few hours, it was incredible. We would talk about anything and everything: life, background, people we knew (yes, one person and I had a mutual connection), occupations, where they’re going (obviously), and above all, family would almost, unequivocally be brought in one way or another. Whether it was “I have one brother” to “Let me tell you about my family background”; it was so fascinating. I’ve even managed a couple of rides out of these conversations LOL!
Anyways, I just wanted to get them out of my head and onto a medium (Ha!) where I can share them with everyone. So here goes nothing and my first story.
This one will probably be relatively quick. I remember I was flying back to San Diego, and I was speaking to a guy across the aisle. Somehow we started talking (I think it was different from the usual “Going home?” line) and I had been telling him how I travel/wanted to. That was also around the time Game of Thrones was hot, and I mean hot, like smoldering. He mentioned a place named Dubrovnik, which I hadn’t heard of at the time so I asked “Where is that?” He told me it was in Croatia and proceeded to ask me Have you seen Game of Thrones?” Ummm… obviously! Who hasn’t?! It was only the greatest TV masterpiece of our generation. Well, until Season 8 unfortunately …
Anyways, he goes onto explain that some of scenes (I think Kings Landing) were shot in Dubrovnik and that I had to to visit. I’m sure I obliged and thought “Man, I gotta go there” Sure enough I have yet to visit haha.
Regardless, it was a nice chat with this gentleman (can’t recall his name), and at one point he ended up asking me how I was getting home (and I’m sure at another point I had told him I lived in PB (Pacific Beach). YEEAAHHH!) So I’m sure I said Uber/Lyft and he said “Nah man, you can come with us” (I don’t think he said that exactly but go with it. It’s for theatrical effect 😂), and he told me his wife was picking him up. Of course I’m sure I was thinking/asked “uhhh you sure” (not knowing him that well really at all, and also I’m just going to show up to his wife’s car and be like “Hi I’m Ridwan, can I get a ride?” LOL like what the?) I guess these sort of things can only happen in particular cities in which this case would be San Diego (this actually reminds me of another story where 2 guys and a dog popped into my UHaul and one of them tried to sell me Diamonds or Weed. I’m sure you can guess what I took? The DIAMONDS! DUH! Annnddd they were obviously fake … )
Anyways back to the story, we pop out onto the curb and walk up to his wife’s car. He says “Hey this guy is going to get a ride with us?” to what obviously you can imagine his wife was a little taken aback. Husband shows up, I’m assuming she’s happy to see him, but confused/probably scared why he is bringing some random guy into their car. I’m just chuckling thinking about it 😂. Anyways, I get in the car and they take me to my apartment in PB. I say bye and that’s it.
So that was a bit longer than a I intended it to be but as I kept writing, certain details kept coming back to me. Anyways, hope you enjoyed this (whoever you are lol) and I hope I continue to write these and you keep coming back and reading them. I’m trying to do my best Dumbledore’s Pensieve impression here. Tootles!
Also, enjoy this last image of Dumbledore and Harry Potter just because I think it’s funny 😂 Okay, but seriously, later!
