No seat? part 2 席がない？その２
Previous story: An old tall woman said to me," It's my seat." My seat in the airplane to Adelaide seemed to be double booked.
Truly, I sat on the seat before her. I was the first even it was just 5 minutes earlier.
I could have beaten her, but I didn't. I didn't have enough energy to fight after the first game in the immigration. Besides, how could I beat the old person? I have a heart.
I said to the lady, "I think it's a double booking. ok, you have a seat and I'll ask them." and I looked at the beautiful flight attendant at the front. I pulled myself together and talked to her.
"Excuse me but..." I was thinking that there was no reason why I have to express my excuse in this case, it's not my fault, anyway, I continued, "but I think this is a double booking." and I showed my ticket. The flight attendant said, "Is it? #％＄＃＄Y%$#$Y%$#Y." She seemed to explain something maybe the why they booked double and so on. But I couldn't catch her words at all. The reason didn't matter to me as long as I could go to Adelaide safely. I needed my seat. It would have been very hard to stand all the time to Adelaide without a seat in the airplane even if they forced me to do it.
Finally she beckoned me to sit on the seat. It was a first front seat, if the airplane crashed, 100% I would die instantly. The penalty seat...
Just on the limit of taking off, a man rushed in and sat on the penalty seat next me.
He smiled at me said, "Hi"
To be continued....
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No seat? part 2 席がない？その２
Previous story: An old tall woman said to me," It's my seat." My seat in the airplane to Adelaide seemed to be double booked.Truly, I sat on the seat before her. I was the first even it was just 5 minutes earlier.
I could have beaten her, but I didn't. I didn't have enough energy to fight after the first game in the immigration. Besides, how could I beat the old person? I have a heart.
I said to the lady, "I think it's a double booking. ok, you have a seat and I'll ask them." and I looked at the beautiful flight attendant at the front. I pulled myself together and talked to her.
"Excuse me but..." I was thinking that there was no reason why I have to express my excuse in this case, it's not my fault, anyway, I continued, "but I think this is a double booking." and I showed my ticket. The flight attendant said, "Is it? #％＄＃＄Y%$#$Y%$#Y." She seemed to explain something maybe the about why they booked double and so on. But I couldn't catch her words at all. The reason didn't matter to me as long as I could go to Adelaide safely. I needed my seat. It would have been very hard to stand all the time to Adelaide without a seat in the airplane even if they forced me to do it.
Finally she beckoned me to sit on the seat. It was a first front seat, if seat way in the front. If the airplane crashed, 100% I would die instantly. The penalty seat...
Just as we were on the limit verge of taking off, a man rushed in and sat on the penalty seat next me.
He smiled at me and said, "Hi"
To be continued....
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No seat? part 2 席がない？その２
Previous story: An old tall woman said to me," It's my seat." My seat in the airplane to Adelaide seemed to be double booked.Truly, I sat on the seat before her. I was the first even if it was just 5 minutes earlier.
I could have beaten her, but I didn't. I didn't have enough energy to fight after the first round with the immigration people. Besides, how could I beat the old person? I have a heart.
I said to the lady, "I think it's a double booking. OK, you have a seat and I'll go ask them." and I looked at the beautiful flight attendant at the front. I pulled myself together and talked to her.
"Excuse me but..." I was thinking that there was no reason why I have to express my excuse in this case, it's not my fault, anyway, I continued, "but I think this is a double booking." and I showed my ticket. The flight attendant said, "Is it? #％＄＃＄Y%$#$Y%$#Y." She seemed to explain something maybe why they booked double and so on. But I couldn't catch her words at all. The reason didn't matter to me as long as I could go to Adelaide safely. I needed my seat. It would have been very hard to stand all the way to Adelaide without a seat in the airplane even if they forced me to do it.
Finally she beckoned me to sit on the seat. It was a first rowt seat, if the airplane crashed, 100% I would die instantly. The penalty seat...
Just on the verge of taking off, a man rushed in and sat on the penalty seat next me.
He smiled at me and said, "Hi"
To be continued....
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Swearing? hahaha! I didn't know that. It made the story funnier!
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Also, usually when someone says "#％＄＃＄Y%$#$Y%$#Y" it means they are swearing (you know, 汚い言葉). But what you wrote does give the impression that the Barbie Doll flight attendant was speaking fast, incomprehensible English.
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笑！！Your Adelaide Tales have been great. I have only one correction that the previous corrections didn't tell you about. For some mysterious reason, you have to say "a tall old woman" and not "and old tall woman." (I'm sure that Steven Pinker explains this in his book 『Words and Rules』But I can't find my copy. It is also unfortunate that this is one of the few Steven Pinker books that hasn't been translated to Japanese. But because it's a book about English grammar rules, I understand why).
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