韩国Korea[英][kə'rɪə] [美][kə'rɪr] 在韩国时,犹他州的州长麦克·史密斯正在汉城机场的要人休息室里休息。他在等着飞往日本的航班。与此同时,他的新闻秘书、詹妮·维蕾拉,在售票房被告知没票了。 她坚持说要乘此航班,因为她是一位美国的州长的随员,这样美国大使馆的一位副官介入了。维蕾拉拿到一张待机票并赶在飞机起飞前登了机。 略略镇定后,维蕾拉到机舱前部去告诉史密斯她的经历。他不在那儿。她后来得知,有人告知州长,他的飞行被一位紧急待机乘客冲撞掉了。这个人就是维蕾拉。 While in Korea, Gov. Mike Smith of Utah was relaxing in the VIP lounge the Seoul airport, awaiting his flight to Japan. At the same moment , his press secretary, Jenny Varela, was being told at the ticket counter that she had no ticket. After insisting she had to make the flight because she was with a U. S. governor, an American embassy aide intervened. Varela got a standby ticket and boarded just before take-off. Regaining her composure, Varela went to the front of the plane to tell Smith of her adventure. He was not there. She later found out that the governor was told that he had been bumped by an urgent standby passenger.It was Varela. |