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We just came back from a month in India with our lovely 1.5 y/o twins. They honestly made the trip 10x better. Their awe and wonder really opened our eyes. And

• Arnt 7y ago
  AOL. Arriving in India with a six-week-old child after an overnight flight taught me something about travelling with children: Problems evaporate. Everyone was queuing for passport control — our whole flight and several others, probably close to a thousand people queuing in a very large room. One of the minders saw me carrying the baby and waved us out of the queue at once. Would we please go over to the VIP&Diplomat queue. So we did, and another minder waved us out of the queue again. No, we should not queue with the VIPs&Diplomats, we should go straight past that queue and be processed immediately. The whole thing took about a minute. That was how the trip started and that was how the rest was, too. 10/10 would do again.
  • taneq 7y ago
    This is not how it always goes, especially in India. You were incredibly lucky.
    • Arnt 7y ago
      Incredibly lucky? Incredible means unbelievable. People consistently bent the odds in my favour, is a positive outcome unbelievable then?
      • taneq 7y ago
        If you want to play semantics then let’s say exceptionally lucky instead.
        • Arnt 7y ago
          I wondered whether that's what you were doing... setting up a sneaky strawman comparison using "always" and "incredibly", which are everyday words and unremarkable because of that, but both words strong in literal meaning. If having no problems in a place like this: http://yris.yira.org/essays/1150 http://yris.yira.org/essays/1150 is the exception, then what's the rule?