A few years ago, I was flying as an unaccompanied minor. To ensure that the flight attendants know that you’re unaccompanied, the usual song-and-dance was that they would give you a red and white 3″ badge to pin on your shirt, and they would write on it with a black magic marker. This time, however, the gate agent was out of badges. After a few phone calls, she decided to improvise, and tied…wait for it…a paper plate around my neck with a piece of string. She then wrote my information on the paper plate in giant letters with a magic marker. I protested about my new fashion statement, but wouldn’t hear it. Total, instantaneous humiliation for a 14-year old.
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probably the best story on here.
hilarious!
i'm sorry
That is freaking hilarious! I am sitting at my desk laughing out loud….thanks for posting!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!
LOL! I'm tearing up…so…freakin……FUNNY!
Don't tell me that going to be your excuse when your on top of the UTexas Tower shooting people with your rifle.
You know I don't know why they bothered wasting a perfectly good paper plate. They could have just used that magic marker on your forehead.
Too funny! Its nice to see someone can get their point across in one short paragraph.
Happiest moment in my life is when I turned 13 and didn't have to wear the dang badge (fly unaccompanied minor style).
The best story I have read tonight!!!
Thanks.
Hilarious! Loved it! But I'm so sorry you had to go through that.. Never mind though, your little experience entertained a whole lot of readers! Think of it as one of those of those stories you can tell to make everyone around you laugh til they cry.
Poor kid but highly entertaining!
That is too funny! My 14 yo daughter balked at wearing the stupid badge, (but did it anyway since that was the cost of flying alone), but I'll have to tell her it could be a lot worse. Hope you got a photo of yourself for your facebook page!
best story on here. ha ha.
wow; that is funny as hell. I bet even JB liked this one.