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**** **** ****!

Easy mistake to make. I once turned up in Inverness instead of Ipswich, mainly because both place names began with the same letter and I didn't bother to read the remaining letters. Or, maybe not :wink
 
we all know MF hasnt gone to the wrong airport. He probably had one two many shandys last night and went to the wrong bedroom at home.

The Irony of Fate - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Following their annual tradition, a group of friends meet at a banya (a traditional public bath) in Moscow to celebrate New Year's Eve (Новогодняя ночь, Novogodnyaya Noch). The friends all get very drunk toasting the upcoming marriage of the central male character, Zhenya Lukashin (Andrei Myagkov) to Galya (Olga Naumenko). After the bath, one of the friends, Pavlik (Aleksandr Shirvindt), has to catch a plane to Leningrad; Zhenya, on the other hand, is supposed to go home to celebrate New Year's Eve with his fiancée. Both Zhenya and Pavlik pass out. The others cannot remember which of their unconscious friends is supposed to be catching the plane; eventually they mistakenly decide that it is Zhenya and put him on a plane instead of Pavlik. On the plane, he collapses onto the shoulder of his annoyed seatmate, played by the director himself (Ryazanov) in a brief comedic cameo appearance. The seatmate helps Zhenya get off the plane in Leningrad. He wakes up in Leningrad airport, believing he is still in Moscow. He stumbles into a taxi and, still quite drunk, gives the driver his address. It turns out that in Leningrad there is a street with the same name (3rd Builders' street), with a building at his address which looks exactly like Zhenya's. The key fits in the door of the apartment with the same number (as alluded to in the introductory narration, "...building standard apartments with standard locks"). Inside, even the furniture is nearly identical to that of Zhenya's apartment. Zhenya is too drunk to notice the differences, and goes to sleep.
 
Well that was a long trip.

Had to wait for hours for the ticket desk to open. I missed the flight in San Fran and over the phone they wouldn't help me. In the end they charged me a token $194 to join the San Diego flight. So i paid $700 to upgrade.

I will not be turning up at the wrong airport again.
 
Turned up at the wrong ******* airport! Supposed to fly from San Fran and I'm in San Diego!!!!!

Argahhhhh!!!!!!:tantrum:

Confusing San Fran with San Diego is the least of your worries.

If you look closely at the destination. it doesn't say Canada.
It says Kandahar.
 

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