Bryans confession

So here I admit to my greatest cock up so far. Hopefully the only one. On re boarding our plane after a stop for a couple of hours at Dubai I managed to leave my cellphone on the coffee table in the lounge. I  realized what I had done once on the plane so with blood pressure rapidly rising  I approached the cabin crew and told them my predicament. Had we  been flying cattle class they  would probably have said "that's tough luck", but being one of the privileged class they proved very helpful to me. I was escorted back to the lounge and needless to say the phone was not there. Carol was, of course, panicking big time by now as the plane was proceeding towards take off readiness. Meanwhile my escort made a couple of phone calls and established that a lost phone was then residing at the business class lounge reception. Only problem, Dubai airport is big, very big and the offending phone was about 300 meters away (notice that now the phone is at fault, not me). So with my escort in tow and panic rising to boiling point we broke a few records recovering the phone. Now, my passport was at this time on the plane together with a wife who was becoming more than a little anxious. I was assured the plane would not leave without first offloading my cases - small comfort that was, any another sprint and back on  board in  time to depressurise Carol and get strapped in for take off. PHEW!