Flying home
from New York City/Carlos Pueblo
While I was
waiting at Laguardia Airport to fly home from New York City,
I ran into
two persons at the waiting terminal, one Chinese widow and
a retired
Asian Indian doctor. The retired physician is 84 years old, a fellow
passenger at
the cruise and the Chinese lady, a current widow of an
old American
from Maine. She saw me and spoke to me immediately while
Amy was
checking on her i-phone connection. She knew that I was from
Taiwan by
listening to my accent in Mandarin Chinese. She indicated that
she became a
widow after 3 months marriage a year ago and inherited all
the asset
from her late husband in Maine, $900,000 in cash and an un-
liquidated
200 acres in Maine with a house of $220,000 in value. She showed
me her
husband’s picture when he proposed at Kweilin, Kwanshi Province,
China, a
handsome man of my age and the Green card copy at her i-phone.
Then, the
Asian Indian cut in for conversation. I had to apologize to her and
Respond to
him. He complained about the taxi fare of $90 from the cruise
terminal to Laguadia
was a rip off and he wrote down the driver’s name. I
had no idea
of such cost because that we walked to the 8th Avenue and took
a subway and
transferred to a bus, of course, I carried Amy’s luggage during
the walk and
also including an unfriendly subway station for the disabled, no
elevator. He
shrugged and said that his wife was handicap. In order to get my
additional
sympathy, he told me that someone from London took his luggage
by mistake
and he got his instead. I asked him how to manage this crisis. He
pointed out
that his daughter in Houston was involved to solve the mess. I
disagreed to
the consequence as a reasonable result. I thought that he should
leave the
others luggage in the cruise terminal office and asked the cruise
customer
service to locate that person who was taking another Cruise line back
to London
and got his luggage back to Laguardia in time for departure. I guessed
that the
cruise line didn’t think that there was enough time.
The Chinese
widow was very impressed with my conversation with that old man.
She asked me
to help her to transfer flight in Houston and of course, we would
be glad to
help. She told Amy that she had been so nervous since she came to
the State to
settle all her claim. She complained that her translator and the attorney
involved
both cheated on her. I didn’t pay very much attention to it yet Amy got
excited and
explained the reason why this lady could not sleep well.
