My First Airplane Experience

CCB Reader Shares his experience..

  

At first, I thought it won’t happen because the travelling agent almost disappointed me. As at 11pm the eve of my trip, I had no idea if my travelling detail was ready. The annoying part was that the travelling agent wasn’t picking my calls no more, I was confused and worried. My mind was made up on taking a bus the following morning… But that will be about 11-12 hours drive, I was prepping my buttocks for the journey, because the last time I travelled that long my buttocks was at the receiving end of the journey. 

We all know that thing that happens when you’re travelling long distance on a bus, you sit down and both partitions of your butt starts paining you, then you decide to sit on one partition of your butt while raising the other partition up, thereafter sitting on the other partition while raising the previous partition up. At a point, both partitions of your buttocks will be raised up, either you’re sitting on the air or supporting yourself with your knee. I didn’t want to experience this “bus” thing again. 

It was 12am, the morning of my trip and no information whatsoever from the agent. The night happened to be my longest night as the morning wasn’t forth coming. I was tossing round the bed, thinking of everything, anything possible. Finally, the agent called in the morning and said I wasn’t going to be on a 7:30 flight anymore but 9:30. I went to the airport, collected my boarding pass and checked in. 

The process of checking in was what I found funny as I laughed throughout the process, I had to remove my shoes, wristwatch, phones e.t.c placing my belongings in a basket and the basket was passed through a monitor. I was also scanned, **for my mind I just talk say this people think I be terrorist** after all security checks, I wore my belongings and headed to the plane.  

In the plane, I was trying to pretend everything was normal after all the stories about planes. But as the plane accelerated into the atmosphere, I felt this jiggling sensation in my stomach. At first, I didn’t know how to wear my seat belt correctly, but a very nice lady sitting beside me helped me **Embarrassing**. 

As soon as the plane took off, this very fine fair tall coca-cola shaped red lips girl came out and demonstrated how to use the emergency tools in the plane in case of emergencies. She demonstrated like a robot on mute mood. I was paying huge attention to everything she was saying, if I was this focus in my days in school, maybe, just maybe I would’ve graduated with a first class. 

Five minutes later, they served us refreshments. One funny moment on the plane was when the co-pilot announced to us that In the next 5 minutes we would be reaching Portharcourt, we all started laughing **No be Abuja we dey go.. shuu!!!**.

Shortly after, the Dana flight that last for 45mins en route to Abuja from Portharourt touched the runway and I was like yea!!!