To add insult to injury we were not overweight and allowed a total of 60kg between us. When we got to the check inn counter the inexperienced staff member insisted that he will only allow one piece of luggage to go through which was only 20kg and said that I should pay him a certain amount of money should I wish for the rest of the luggage to go through. It's obvious to me that he was looking to take the money for himself as all excess luggage at the airport has to be paid at a specific counter,
not directly to the check inn staff. So then we started exchanging words and I called up his manager. The manager was quite a bold man with good etiquette and fantastic interpersonal skills.He reprimanded his junior and apologized on his behalf for his incompetent behaviour and said that this will not occur in the future.
We then made our way to the waiting area which was full and chaotic as many flights were grounded and unable to take off. Eventually after a good three hours wait we boarded the flight.We got home past midnight and we dashed straight off to bed. When I woke up this morning I couldn't open my left eye and the first thought that came to mind was conjunctivitis that I probably contracted from the lady I assisted to embark the plane as she had loads of hand luggage but as the day progressed I realized that I had developed a cellulitis (an infection that spreads under the skin, affecting soft tissues such as the skin itself and the fat underneath it) that spread around the eye area. I cut myself with my ring a few days ago just above my eye brow and never really thought much about it. It looked like just a small scratch. However, the skin was broken and hence germs and bacteria were allowed to enter. My colleagues have placed me on high doses of antibiotics and I hope God Willing the infection will disappear within the next few days although they made lots of fun of me.I was told that the reason my eye is swollen is either due to the fact that I have been watching many gorgeous, handsome looking Arab men or on the flip side of things my boyfriend gave me a blue eye LOL The moral of the story is this...Don't take the smallest things in life for granted, for its the smallest things that could land up causing major issues..If you have any small ailment like a cough or a headache that persists, rather get yourself checked up by the physician instead of developing major complications later on.Don’t take your health for granted, that flighty thing. Anyone who’s battled with their own knows how temperamental a body can be. That humans are imperfect machines, short-circuiting beneath our skin a tiny bit each day. Once the health goes, it leaves the door open so that many other things can go with it.!!!!May God Almighty protect us all from sicknesses and calamities and provide complete cure to those who are afflicted with ailments and diseases. Ameen!!
