Ever gotten on the wrong train/subway/bus?
I've done that a few times in Europe. Our esteemed DFW rescued me from my mistake near Dusseldorf, and in Berlin I've caught the wrong subway twice. I am such a newbie to all this but I'm learning rapidly. Florida sucks for public transport (my only excuse), with only a few exceptions in Miami and Orlando. Not sure what Tampa/St. Petersburg have.
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My Dad was a world traveler and I'm grateful that he got to see some amazing places. Back in the '80s he and my mother visited the Middle East and they were on a plane on the tarmac in Cairo headed for Amman, Jordan. My Dad was quite outgoing, enjoyed meeting and talking with people, and he started up a conversation with the gentleman seated next to him on the plane. Just to break the ice he asked he man if he thought it would be as hot in Amman as it was there in Cairo. The man looked surprised and he said "This plane does not go to Amman, this plane goes to Baghdad!" If it wasn't for my Dad being friendly, my parents would have ended up in Iraq! 
Another was when he was on a plane returning from China when he taught an elderly Chinese man to use a fork, LOL. Do you remember that infamous hijacking of a TWA flight from Rome to Athens to Cairo? I think it was in 1985. I remember that a photo of the hero pilot - Captain John Testrake from during the hijacking - made the cover of TIME Magazine. My Dad had been on that same flight not long before it happened. They determined that the lack of security had happened in Athens and my Dad was glued Io the coverage, pointing out the places they showed where he'd just been... 
