My One & Only such Adventure

I really, really, really should have known better than to book my flight to Singapore online.

Not only had I been stung – more than once – buying not-as-advertised merchandise over the internet (even through reputable outlets like eBay!) but long before that I’d been a mail-order sucker, sending off money for promised goods that never matched promised fantasies when they arrived with the sorrowful-faced postman. Magic massage necklaces! Guaranteed pimple vanisher! Motor Honey! And so on.

It all seemed so easy. And AirAsia (referred to here within as “AA”, as in “ack-ack” or “anti-aircraft” or “Alkies Anonymous”) was buying big red display ads in all the local English-language media. “Fly for Free!” Hmm.  “We’ll pay you to fly with us!” Uh, well, ahh, let me think it over… “Hell, we will even give you the airplane if you fly with us!”

And so on.