HOW TO TELL TALES OF TRAVELLERS' MIX-UPS - Australia, France and Singapore

Have you had a holiday disaster?
You have the ingredients for comedy.

What kind of disaster?

PACKING
Packing Success
Co-ordinated clothes: black, white, red, scarves.

Packing Disasters
Example
Too much for the suitcase - on my return.
Solution. Pack what you came with. The rest is in a second bag.

Suitcases - broken and lost
Broken suitcase

Lost suitcase or key
An American couple lost their suitcase for a fancy dress party in England.

Examples
Swapped suitcase with spouse (happened to me)

Car
What can't you do?
Open the boot
Turn off the alarm
Happened to me in Oxford England.

Lost car in car park
(I lost my son in the Watford shopping mall car park. I tried to phone him but he was on the phone. Eventually he phoned me. 'Where are you, Mum."
"I've been all over the the top floor and the whole mall looking for my little lime green car. It's not here. Where are you?"

"Where you left on the top floor. I am not in your lime green car. I am in my little grey two seater. I drove you here. Remember."

I drove off without my son when he was loading the car.)

Bus
Bus Stop

Coach
Railway
Station

Passport
Lost Passport
Examples
1 Happened to me in France,
2 On the way to France

3 Left behind at airport security scanner in the USA before boarding a flight to London. Was my husband sympathetic? No.
 My husband said, 'Don't ever do that to me again!'

Useful Websites and Books
How to be an Alien by George Mikes



Useful Websites
https://www.a-speakers.com/speakers/brad-ashton-keynote-speaker/
 Brad Ashton's books on comedy: 
“How to Write Comedy”, 
“The funny Thing about Writing Comedy”, 
“The Job of a Laughtime”, and 
“Stand up and Be Laughed at”.

About the Author
Angela Lansbury is a travel writer and photographer, author of 20 books, and a speaker and speech trainer.
Her books include:
Wedding Speeches & Toasts
Quick Quotations
Writing Poetry For Fun
Angela's Alarming Animal Poems


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