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[quote=Anonymous]When I was three, I broke out with chicken pox on an international flight. My parents were like, not much we can do about that now and that was that.

In college, I was exchanging my last big USD with a black market money guy in Russia when the cops came to shake him down. As they were taking him to jail, I played super dumb and like I didn't speak any Russian and went with him -- it was all the money I had and I wasn't about to lose it. As we were walking to the police station, he said to me under his breath "Why are you coming with me" and I replied "I can't lose this money, it's all I have." So he goes, "You're an American, they won't search you, hold this" and start putting all his hard currency in my purse: USD, Deutche marks, pounds, francs....you name it. He then said "They just need a little money to feed their families, wait for me over there" and went into the station.

I am standing outside the police station with god knows how much money for 20 min, then he eventually comes out and is like, let's go for a stroll. He paid them off way less than we would have had to since he offloaded so much cash onto me, and I didn't lose my last $100. He told me he would have come back to complete the transaction and I didn't need to accompany him to the station. I was so flat busted I couldn't take that chance.

Another trip, I was about 10 weeks pregnant and puked in the airplane toilet for about 8 hours over 5 different countries. That was awful.

One time, I was flying alone to Central Asia with a 5 year old and 2 year old. Someone had a medical emergency on the flight, we turned around partway over the Atlantic and landed back at Dulles at 2 AM. I somehow managed to get the 5 year old to haul ass through the airport to the taxi stand with me while carrying the two year old, getting home at like 3 AM. Then I was on the phone another 1.5 hours getting rebooked, and had to head back out to the airport that night with the kids to do it all over again. 
 
Then there was a time when a bomb went off at CDG when I was there (pre-internet days). Total chaos, all systems manual, missed my flight. Had to spend 24 hours in the airport with $5 to my name. That was not fun.

A few years ago a cop in Ghana waved my taxi driver over and hopped in the front seat with a rifle. My colleague's eyes got huge. I just smiled widely and said "Hello there!" All he wanted was a ride closer to the station, it was hot as blazes out there and he didn't want to walk. 
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