The Fluent Mind ESL Podcast The A to Z English Podcast | My Worst Flight
In this episode of The A to Z English Podcast, Xochitl and Jack discuss the worst flights they have ever taken.
Transcript:
00:00:00
Jack
You're listening to the A-Z English podcast.
00:00:13
Jack
Welcome to the A-Z English podcast. My name is Jack and I'm here with my co-host social. And today we're going to do a quick talk episode where we just chat about a a random topic and today's topic is what's the worst flight you have ever taken?
00:00:33
Jack
And so so it sounds like you have a really good story.
00:00:37
Jack
For this one.
00:00:39
Xochitl
Yeah, I do. I do. Jack. You know, towards the end of my time in Korea, I really was homesick. I wanted to go back and interestingly, didn't want to go back to the US. I wanted to go back to Mexico. I hadn't been back to Mexico since the pandemic started because I was trying to be mindful of COVID. And a lot of people don't have the same.
00:01:00
Xochitl
Access to healthcare and to vaccination like we did in the US and in South Korea. So I hadn't gone back and I I was just really sick and tired of.
00:01:13
Xochitl
You know, being in Korea at that point and I wanted to go home. I was just homesick. So I.
00:01:22
Xochitl
Bought my flight back to Mexico after I quit my job and I think I initially was thinking about it just being a vacation that I might come back to Korea. But I I just never went.
00:01:33
Xochitl
Back and the flight. Yeah. The flight was really, really insane. I flew with Asiana Airlines.
00:01:43
Jack
Yeah, I've taken them before, yeah.
00:01:45
발표자
It was so.
00:01:47
Xochitl
Bad. Oh my God, it's.
00:01:48
Xochitl
A really long flight. It was from South Korea, so South Korea to San Francisco.
00:01:55
Xochitl
And you use like a 17 hour flight and.
00:02:00
Xochitl
The aircraft that we were in for some reason had these really tiny seats. No one could like. I'm not a big person and neither were most of people sitting around me, but no one could like fit properly because they were so small. So everyone had their feet out in the aisles, including myself, you know, you know how short I am. Like, my foot had to be on the aisle.
00:02:20
Xochitl
Cause it was so cramped and.
00:02:23
Xochitl
The seats were really uncomfortable and they're like at.
00:02:25
Xochitl
An angle so you couldn't really sleep.
00:02:30
Xochitl
And I was like, against the back wall, so I couldn't recline my chair at all.
00:02:36
Xochitl
The food was OK. I think that was the only thing that was not.
00:02:40
Xochitl
Horrible. And they gave you these little mini toothpaste. So we're really cute. But besides that, it was so bad and I was just.
00:02:49
Xochitl
I was so sleepy probably by that.
00:02:51
Xochitl
Point I had a really bad headache I.
00:02:52
Xochitl
Felt horrible and I.
00:02:55
Xochitl
Got so and I it's not like I can.
00:02:58
Xochitl
Crash thing. I take a flight from San Francisco to Mexico City and then Mexico City to Oaxaca. So I think I the whole travel time was probably around 48 hours, of which I didn't get. Like any sleep really. In fact, I didn't get any sleep maybe a couple hours here and there. And by the end.
00:03:17
Xochitl
I had such a bad migraine that I was.
00:03:20
Xochitl
Like about to throw up. I just felt horrible. Horrible. I will never do that again. I will never do the, you know, 8 hours thing. No, it's not worth it. It's just not worth it.
00:03:35
Jack
The three stops, yeah.
00:03:36
Xochitl
So I would.
00:03:39
Xochitl
Yeah, just it's crazy. I would just stay in San Francisco for a few nights and take another, you know, take the flight next to out to Mexico after a couple of days or something. Just like plan around it. But I would never, ever do that.
00:03:54
Jack
You know.
00:03:54
Xochitl
How about you, Jack? How was?
00:03:56
Xochitl
What's your worst?
00:03:57
Jack
Well, I've taken that airline before too, but I had a good experience. I don't know, maybe you know.
00:04:02
Xochitl
Everyone tells me that everyone's like I had a good experience.
00:04:04
Xochitl
I'm like, well, I don't know what to tell you. That was really. Yeah.
00:04:07
Jack
Yeah, yeah, maybe it was just the that one plane or something. It was, yeah, I the worst flight I ever I've ever taken was from Bangkok to San Francisco. So pretty. Similar to what you were describing, but.
00:04:12
Xochitl
I think so.
00:04:24
Jack
The problem was I waited too long to get my ticket so I wasn't able to. I'm 6 foot eight. I mean, that's tall. I'm super tall and so I remember getting a flight where.
00:04:38
Jack
It's like uh, I'm in the middle of the row, so there's a person on my left and a person on my right. And I always take the aisle so that I can stick my feet.
00:04:52
Jack
When you know everybody's sleeping overnight, when everything settles down, I can stick my feet out and I can. It gives me just a little bit of of stretching ability, but this time I was stuck in between two big guys. And then there's me, the biggest guy in there and we're all just crammed in and I'm.
00:05:12
Jack
I'm the I'm in the middle of this sandwich, you know, and.
00:05:19
Jack
And it was a 14 hour flight and the lady in front of me immediately puts her chair all the way back.
00:05:26
Jack
So my I can't even it's like the tray food tray is basically.
00:05:32
Jack
Hitting me like in the stomach or like hitting my knees and so I've got this. Like food tray this basically her head is like the back of her head is like right in front of my face. I can't even move my chair back because.
00:05:50
Jack
I'm it doesn't help me because it's not even comfortable even if I put my, even if I recline my chair. So it was just A and that and that was 14 hours of just like every minute was so slow and and it was it was the longest flight I've ever taken in my life. It was horrible. Just a horrible, horrible.
00:06:11
Jack
Like every minute was miserable and yeah.
00:06:16
Jack
So I that.
00:06:16
Jack
That's basically the worst flight ever had. It wasn't.
00:06:17
Xochitl
You will be.
00:06:19
Xochitl
Basically, and it's been a long flight.
00:06:19
Jack
Yeah, it wasn't because of like.
00:06:23
Jack
Yeah, 14 hours of just suffering in this tiny little claustrophobic.
00:06:28
Jack
Middle seat. Yeah, it's just terrible. It's just so it's why when you fly, you have to prepare, you know, for things like when you, when I'm tall, you gotta get those like bring your neck pillow bring all your little stuff that you need to make it comfortable.
00:06:47
Jack
And I just didn't do any of that. I just was like Ohh, just buy ticket. I'll just fly back home. And of course it was torture because I didn't make it comfortable for myself. So I think both you and I were kind of running away from places and we were just like, so.
00:07:06
Jack
Kind of hypnotized by like getting home that we didn't care. You know about the actual trip. You know, it's like.
00:07:15
Xochitl
Yeah, like you didn't think it through all the way. Just Get Me Out of here because the mentality.
00:07:16
Jack
Just Get Me Out of here.
00:07:22
Jack
Yeah, yeah. And that's a fine attitude until you're on the plane. And then you're like, wow.
00:07:28
Xochitl
I should have bought this through.
00:07:29
Jack
I really messed up. Yeah, yeah.
00:07:31
Xochitl
That's exactly what it's like.
00:07:34
Xochitl
Yeah. All right, well.
00:07:35
Xochitl
Shoot us an e-mail using A-Z englishpodcast@gmail.com leave a comment down below on our website at ozenglishpodcast.com and we will see you guys next time. Bye bye.
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