Mike is arriving tonight at about 7 pm, so I need to get to the airport for about 6, just so I can find somewhere to park (the website is not very informative about how to park when picking up passengers) and I set off about 5. The drive is easy, as is parking; I wonder why I thought it would be any other way?
Anyway, I am early and the flight is slightly delayed, so I have to hang about a bit, having a coffee in the hottest Starbucks ever (no aircon) and I get a chance to look about the shops: I need some after sun lotion, as I can feel my head radiating with the heat, and my arms beginning to sting from this morning’s session. Ah – a Bodyshop – they’ll have what I need.
As I approach, all four shop assistants welcome me to the shop with a sing-songy "Hello sir" that is very annoying, but anyway, I go to one of them (who is trying not to stare at my burnt head) and I ask if they have any lotion for soothing said head, and she points me towards some pink concoction that smelled like grapefruit and was for softening the hard skin on your feet.
Err, no. I want after sun cream, you know, for soothing burnt heads, like the one I have got and that you are staring at! How can you not understand ‘sun tan lotion’ in Malaysia? Weirdly though, they don’t actually sell anything like that, just lots of cucumber and mint foot lotion. So I abandon that and leave the giggling assistants behind. There is a general store over the other side that sells everything, and I find some luminous green aloe vera gel, which should do the trick.
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