Today's sappy story.
Oct. 6th, 2008 11:57 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
theweaselkingIn 1988, an American woman marries a Norwegian, is shipping all her stuff on the plane, and is told at the last minute that she needs to pay an extra $103 in overweight charges.
Her husband is already in the air on a separate flight. She's in Miami, where she knows nobody. She has no cash on her. Oh, and it's 1988, making internet-phone-based solutions difficult.
She's breaking down crying because this is everything she owns, and she's trying to figure out what she can leave behind and what she can possibly keep, when the man behind her steps forward and says he'll pay her charge. He writes his name and his mother's address on a scrap of paper and she promises to mail him a cheque to pay him back.
Some of you might recognise him.
Her husband is already in the air on a separate flight. She's in Miami, where she knows nobody. She has no cash on her. Oh, and it's 1988, making internet-phone-based solutions difficult.
She's breaking down crying because this is everything she owns, and she's trying to figure out what she can leave behind and what she can possibly keep, when the man behind her steps forward and says he'll pay her charge. He writes his name and his mother's address on a scrap of paper and she promises to mail him a cheque to pay him back.
Some of you might recognise him.