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Birthday in the clouds
We were on holiday in South Africa on my 11th Birthday and were due to get an internal flight from Johannesburg to Cape Town.

Disaster struck, however, as the flight got delayed... indefinitely!!!

After about 6 hours sitting in that cesspit of an airport (by which time it was about 2'o'clock at night and nothing was open), the manager from the airline came down to apologise. My mum mentioned it was my birthday that day, so the guy promised me that he would come back and give me a present - Customer relations and all that.

Anyhow, about half an hour later, the man returned, handed me a small, rectangular box with a picture of an aeroplane on the front! I was very polite though, and thanked the man for the thoughtful gesture. He left to get on with his job (badly), and I excitedly opened my gift, wondering what was inside!

Could it be a model aeroplane? - It would be slightly ironic, but at least it might pass the time!
Could it be free tickets for another holiday? the least I would expect after being treated so badly.

Alas, no. When I opened the box, I looked inside and saw...




Nothing.

That BASTARD had given me an EMPTY BOX for my birthday! An EMPTY FUCKING BOX with a picture of the FUCKING AEROPLANE we should have been on 6 HOURS AGO!

And to top it all off, we had to wait 10 hours in total for the flight.

Great Birthday.
(Thu 23rd Sep 2004, 20:19, More)

» Strange things you've been paid to do

Best Job Ever
My friend has contacts in the film industry, and managed to get us parts as extras in "Johnny English" (I'm one of the pages in the coronation scene!).

We got paid £8 an hour, and did 8 days of 10 hours.

£640 for appearing in a mainstream film.

And the best bit was that we only actually worked for 2 days in total... The rest of the time we were playing cards/chatting/getting free cooked lunches in the extras tent, waiting there in case we were needed!!!
(Thu 30th Sep 2004, 10:27, More)