Sunday, June 29, 2008

In moderation

On the way from the US to Manila recently, two colleagues travelled on the same plane – and one ended up with too little water, the other with too much. One suffers badly from travel sickness and was taking a commercially available anti-motion sickness preparation. She ended up becoming seriously dehydrated and needed to be taken from the plane by ambulance. She was rehydrated at hospital and released a day later. The other colleague suffered too much water when she had a mishap with the tap/faucet in the washroom and turned it into a gushing fountain which saturated her and the flight attendants who tried to bring it under control. She spent the rest of the flight under a blanket, wet, freezing and mostly unhappy. (And who said business travel was glamorous?)

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