MinnieMel
Why Be Normal?
Once upon a time there was a mermaid who waited to the last minute pack for a Florida Family Fun Faff (despite her well meaning friends encouraging her to start sooner), and because of her mad rush to pack she accidentally forgot to pack...
her permit to travel in the airline cabin; having a tail instead of feet causes all sorts of red tape issues at airports. When she arrived to check in it all went smoothly for the rest of the FFFF gang but when it was Pooks turn they took one look at the tail and immediately called security and requested assistance from the Animal Reception Centre. Pooks blushed furiously in embarrassment and her face turned almost the same colour as her tail; which was still recovering from recent events in the castle moat and was a very pretty colour of deep plum. The FFFF gang stood quietly in the background, rolling their eyes upwards, and thinking "here we go again" as Pooks slammed her passport down on the check-in desk, looked the uniformed assistant straight in the eye, shimmied her tail and said....
"Do you know who I am?" as she rumaged in her hand luggage for the portfolio of recent and not so recent promotion photos of her appearances in all the Disney movies and a dog eared poster of Free Willy and her at a red carpet event. The staff looked puzzled and said...
Why didn't you just swim over? We can't sit or serve fish in First Class -- we have other patrons with allergies. I guess you can sit up front in cockpit pit as I've heard fish have excellent navigational skills and our flight engineer/navigator just called in sick. So, Pooks put on her new uniform and took her place next to the pilot who bore a strong resemblance to...
..John Travolta!.."ooh, I feel the need for a boogie coming on" thought Pookie. Almost immediately..the sound of Night Fever was heard playing throughout the plane. The cabin crew were somewhat alarmed when the passengers started to...
move out into the aisles and begin dancing the hustle to Pooks' own personal soundtrack. Pooks was impressed for a while but then realised in horror that the trolley dollies could no longer get along the aisle with supplies of water from the galley to spray on her tail to prevent it from drying out. Aghast Pooks flicked a few switches on the console which resulted in the plane going into free fall and the dancers ended up in a heap piled against the cockpit door. Pooks was trapped with her tail beginning to take on a snake-like appearance as the plane nose-dived downwards; then she had an idea...
She grabbed the fire extinguisher just as the pilot righted the plane and started to spray down her tail. Unfortunately, when a fire extingusher has been deployed the plane is required to make a safety landing and go through a thorough check. So, the pilot had to divert to Iceland and make an emergency landing. Once on the ground the airline announced that everyone was going to have to disembark and prepare for a two night stay whilst another plane was sorted (apparently that dive caused some cracks in the wings). Pooks was pleased as she had always wants to swim in a geothermal pool -- plus she had heard that...
her permit to travel in the airline cabin; having a tail instead of feet causes all sorts of red tape issues at airports. When she arrived to check in it all went smoothly for the rest of the FFFF gang but when it was Pooks turn they took one look at the tail and immediately called security and requested assistance from the Animal Reception Centre. Pooks blushed furiously in embarrassment and her face turned almost the same colour as her tail; which was still recovering from recent events in the castle moat and was a very pretty colour of deep plum. The FFFF gang stood quietly in the background, rolling their eyes upwards, and thinking "here we go again" as Pooks slammed her passport down on the check-in desk, looked the uniformed assistant straight in the eye, shimmied her tail and said....
"Do you know who I am?" as she rumaged in her hand luggage for the portfolio of recent and not so recent promotion photos of her appearances in all the Disney movies and a dog eared poster of Free Willy and her at a red carpet event. The staff looked puzzled and said...
Why didn't you just swim over? We can't sit or serve fish in First Class -- we have other patrons with allergies. I guess you can sit up front in cockpit pit as I've heard fish have excellent navigational skills and our flight engineer/navigator just called in sick. So, Pooks put on her new uniform and took her place next to the pilot who bore a strong resemblance to...
..John Travolta!.."ooh, I feel the need for a boogie coming on" thought Pookie. Almost immediately..the sound of Night Fever was heard playing throughout the plane. The cabin crew were somewhat alarmed when the passengers started to...
move out into the aisles and begin dancing the hustle to Pooks' own personal soundtrack. Pooks was impressed for a while but then realised in horror that the trolley dollies could no longer get along the aisle with supplies of water from the galley to spray on her tail to prevent it from drying out. Aghast Pooks flicked a few switches on the console which resulted in the plane going into free fall and the dancers ended up in a heap piled against the cockpit door. Pooks was trapped with her tail beginning to take on a snake-like appearance as the plane nose-dived downwards; then she had an idea...
She grabbed the fire extinguisher just as the pilot righted the plane and started to spray down her tail. Unfortunately, when a fire extingusher has been deployed the plane is required to make a safety landing and go through a thorough check. So, the pilot had to divert to Iceland and make an emergency landing. Once on the ground the airline announced that everyone was going to have to disembark and prepare for a two night stay whilst another plane was sorted (apparently that dive caused some cracks in the wings). Pooks was pleased as she had always wants to swim in a geothermal pool -- plus she had heard that...
