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Kirsty's avatar

On a recent flight I was sat next to a couple who were fascinating, for many reasons. This nut allergy message came over the tannoy and I observed them both getting quite worked up. They called over an attendant and said they would like to know how close they were to the nut allergy traveller cause they wanted to eat their kinder buenos - which if you dinnea ken is nut-tastic!! The attendant told them he wouldn’t be divulging this information. So they asked could they eat it in the loo (?!) and the attendant could tell the nut allergy passenger to use the other loo. They were told NUT! Nae nuts!! After that they wore masks for the flight even when eating the overpriced Pringles. Popping them under their masks as they munched.

Thanks for allowing me to relive that very odd and comical time in my life 😆 I love the absurdity of humans.

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paul lambie's avatar

MUST HAVE KINDER BUENO!!

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paul lambie's avatar

Oh this is wonderful, extreme and bizarre! The poem was a reaction to my own inability, in a hangry tired moment, to see the situation from another person's perspective. I couldn't see past my own expectations. I found spending a little time writing from the perspective of someone in peril really helped my dig into some empathy. But we can be mad illogical and self centred when our energy is low. More and more of us spend our whole lives in that kind of state! Silly humans.

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