Comments on: T I A

By: ImPrecision Air 2/Me Nil « Reluctant Memsahib

ImPrecision Air 2/Me Nil « Reluctant Memsahib — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 10:41:34 +0000

[...] Imprecision Air has a better, certainly more truthful, ring to it. [...]

By: Mozi Esme's Mommy

Mozi Esme's Mommy — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 20:04:32 +0000

Just read Retired Memsahib’s comment about computerization! I wish! There is NO END to rubberstamping at least where I’m at! You gotta have the stamp no matter what technology is available. And all the power is in that stamp. Who needs a computer when you are the holder of the stamp? Forget etickets – You CAN’T fly without the paper ticket and the stamp.

By: reluctantmemsahib

reluctantmemsahib — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 11:48:07 +0000

absolutely Mozi; TIA is the mantra to live by …

Mom de Plume – i think you’re right. And it is oddly, perversely, heartening to know you are not the only one whose baggage has ended up where you are not … thank you

By: Mom de Plume

Mom de Plume — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 09:11:34 +0000

TIA indeed, everyone I know who has travelled by plane recently has mislaid luggage, my Sister-in-Law’s went to the US while she came home…both leaving from Heathrow!!! As for corruption, perhaps it is so much the norm here that no one refers to it as corruption any more?

By: Mozi Esme's Mommy

Mozi Esme's Mommy — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 06:38:43 +0000

TIA is my mantra, too! I love it when the Mozambican airline agents act all shocked that we would expect to pick up our luggage when we arrive – this IS a 3rd world country, after all. And deliver it when it finally arrives? What are we thinking? People are starving here, how can the airline afford delivery service? Never mind that the airline ticket was purchased for megabucks and somebody is making a fortune off of us.

By: reluctantmemsahib

reluctantmemsahib — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 16:29:50 +0000

Tash, Retired Mem; thank you. I am a little anxious about gng home to tz, my faintly distantly jangling memory tells me i might need same to return home and simply cannot afford to cough up similarly. may have to improvise some kind of a stamp of my own …

By: Retired Memsahib

Retired Memsahib — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 15:36:05 +0000

Oh what memories you bring back! We used to make our own Yellow fever and Cholera certificates using a local coin to produce an official looking stamp! I imagine computerisation has put an end to such “innocent” sport. Enjoy Nairobi, if you can!

By: Tash

Tash — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 11:05:02 +0000

What candour!!! Mambo kawaida tuu!

By: reluctantmemsahib

reluctantmemsahib — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 04:47:04 +0000

oh but Mr Sherman, what would I have to talk about without such experiences! have a good trip.

Rob: I do Rob, I do indeed. x

By: Rob

Rob — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 21:26:42 +0000

Glad bags arrived ok. Happens in Europe too if that is any consolation. Lost my case for few days last time I flew back to Ireland from Africa. Apparently it had been sitting out on the (wet) tarmac at Heathrow for a day. The clothes were all damp but luckily the coffee beans and the Embassy survived unscathed. Glad your sister got her yellow fever cert sorted. I’d say it is just a money making racket. Do you remember the days when you could buy the full allowance of £15 foreign currency and you had to pay £10 in airport tax (in forex) leaving Kenya…