Good ole social media strikes again.
This is the kind of fun fact social media users just can’t resist retweeting or reposting: So many travelers who intend to visit Australia are accidentally buying tickets to Austria that the country’s second-largest airport has had to set up a special counter to redirect misguided tourists to the correct continent.
Really?
The notion of a help desk for planeloads of absent-minded holiday makers who set out for Sydney but wound up thousands of miles away in Salzburg just wouldn't happen. Even if someone made that initial mistake, once he or she got to the airport the gate agent would correct the error. Wouldn't that be embarrassing?
The answer, as Australians would say, is “nah.” Or “nein” if you happen to have found yourself in Austria.
Know your facts and know a little world geography.
One of my mother's demented uncles went into a bus station and asked if they could take him to Ithaca. The next day he was in New York, he wanted the Ithaca in Michigan (that has not had bus service since the 1950s.)
ReplyDeleteYou mean you can't believe everything you read on the Internet??!!! 😮
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