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Lemmy, what are your "missed flight" stories? (lemmy.fmhy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by lemontea@lemmy.fmhy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I just missed mine. Feeling pretty stupid right now. Hopefully your stories will cheer me up.

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[–] Roundcat@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago

Missed train, but eh, whatever.

The year is 2016, I'm teaching English in Japan, and the Olympics is on TV with Nigeria vs. Japan in Soccer.

I'm normally not into Scoccer or any kind of TV sport for that matter, but I caught the game early on, and Japan was neck and neck with Nigeria. For some reason I wanted to see it play out. JAPAN scores! YES! then I remember where I was and what I was doing, and my train to Sapporo had left 30 minutes ago...

Luckily I was able to schedule another train, and what time I got there didn't really matter, but I had to wait several hours for it to arrive. Japan ended up losing 5 to 4.