{"id":2832,"date":"2011-06-17T15:26:51","date_gmt":"2011-06-17T14:26:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/?p=2832"},"modified":"2011-06-17T20:45:10","modified_gmt":"2011-06-17T19:45:10","slug":"airport-lost-in-translation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/?p=2832","title":{"rendered":"Airport, Lost in Translation."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2011\/06\/DeparturesBoard.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2833\" title=\"DeparturesBoard\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2011\/06\/DeparturesBoard.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"214\" height=\"184\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2011\/06\/DeparturesBoard.jpg 214w, http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2011\/06\/DeparturesBoard-150x128.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 214px) 100vw, 214px\" \/><\/a>Coming out of Manchester airport\u00a0security on the\u00a0way out to the World Cup in Sweden, Alan and I were accosted by a hysterical, middle aged Chinese lady. She thrust a bit of paper in front of our noses and started frantic jabbering and arm waving.<\/p>\n<p>The bit of paper said, &#8216;What number is the departure gate for Frankfurt?&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>To be fair, you do come straight out of security into what looks like a crash between Debenhams, Toys R Us and a high class off license, with no signage, but she was going bonkers, looking like she was about to burst into tears.<\/p>\n<p>We tried to calm her down but I suspect the problem was she could not recognise any Roman characters and was like a rabbit in the headlights and scared.<\/p>\n<p>Eventually we got her through to the information point (closed)\u00a0and could at least point to a screen to show her gate was not yet being called (in fact not for another 40 minutes). Then she produced a mobile and asked Alan to speak to her daughter, who eventually calmed her down.<\/p>\n<p>She shuffled off towards the gates (still no number had been called) a little happier, and we felt very good at having been good Samaritans, but a little relieved to have got rid of her.<\/p>\n<p>Over the next hour we kept seeing her at the head of an ever-growing gaggle of Chinese travellers, still seemingly totally confused as to where she was meant to be and when wandering between the various gates. She\u00a0kept us amused, though!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coming out of Manchester airport\u00a0security on the\u00a0way out to the World Cup in Sweden, Alan and I were accosted by a hysterical, middle aged Chinese lady. She thrust a bit of paper in front of our noses and started frantic jabbering and arm waving. The bit of paper said, &#8216;What number is the departure gate &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/?p=2832\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Airport, Lost in Translation.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2833,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,9,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cycling","category-mountain-biking-cycling","category-orienteering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2832"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2844,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2832\/revisions\/2844"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}