{"id":4233,"date":"2020-04-05T11:37:23","date_gmt":"2020-04-05T09:37:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bullesbygundula.com\/?p=4233"},"modified":"2020-04-08T16:08:34","modified_gmt":"2020-04-08T14:08:34","slug":"the-tale-of-cdg-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bullesbygundula.com\/en\/the-tale-of-cdg-airport\/","title":{"rendered":"The tale of CDG airport"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/bullesbygundula.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Airport-300x122.jpg\" alt=\"L\u2019attribut alt de cette image est vide, son nom de fichier est Airport-300x122.jpg.\" width=\"212\" height=\"86\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>I was dashing through the airport with my phone to my ear. A passenger pulling his wheeled suitcase called out to me \u201cDo you speak English?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I stopped, always ready to be of assistance. He asked me if I could help him out with 20 euros. He had run out of money at the airport and didn\u2019t have anyone he could ask for help. Lots of things ran through my mind, I was in a hurry, I wondered why he\u2019d picked me, I didn\u2019t totally trust him and in the end I told him I didn\u2019t have any cash on me. By way of reply he flung at me, \u201cWhy don\u2019t you just say you won\u2019t help me instead of bothering to dream up an excuse?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I went off feeling a bit ashamed at my lack of charity. I told myself \u2013 later, obviously \u2013 that I could have asked him for his story, given him something towards his 20 euros and in return got a nice warm feel-good glow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Two weeks later I once again heard a voice calling out \u201cDo you speak English?\u201d It was the same man, with the same little wheeled suitcase. I smiled at him and replied, \u201cYou ran out of money last week as well!\u201d Surprised, he turned and fled. And I got my warm glow after all!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I had not believed the man\u2019s story the first time I met him. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What about you? Do you trust your intuition?<\/p>\n\n\n<p><!--EndFragment--><br>\n<br>\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was dashing through the airport with my phone to my ear. A passenger pulling his wheeled suitcase called out to me \u201cDo you speak English?\u201d I stopped, always ready to be of assistance. He asked me if I could help him out with 20 euros. He had run out of money at the airport and didn\u2019t have anyone he could ask for help. Lots of things ran through my mind, I was in a hurry, I wondered why he\u2019d picked me, I didn\u2019t totally trust him and in the end I told him I didn\u2019t have any cash on me. By way of reply he flung at me, \u201cWhy don\u2019t you just say you won\u2019t help me instead of bothering to dream up an excuse?\u201d I went off feeling a bit ashamed at my lack of charity. I told myself \u2013 later, obviously \u2013 that I could have asked him for his story, given him something towards his 20 euros and in return got a nice warm feel-good glow. Two weeks later I once again heard a voice calling out \u201cDo you speak English?\u201d It was the same man, with the same little wheeled suitcase. I smiled at him and replied, \u201cYou ran out of money last week as well!\u201d Surprised, he turned and fled. And I got my warm glow after all! I had not believed the man\u2019s story the first time I met him. What about you? Do you trust your intuition?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4389,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2289],"tags":[2609,2848,2849,2846,2847],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v16.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/bullesbygundula.com\/en\/the-tale-of-cdg-airport\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The tale of CDG airport - Bulles de bonheur\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I was dashing through the airport with my phone to my ear. A passenger pulling his wheeled suitcase called out to me \u201cDo you speak English?\u201d I stopped, always ready to be of assistance. He asked me if I could help him out with 20 euros. He had run out of money at the airport and didn\u2019t have anyone he could ask for help. Lots of things ran through my mind, I was in a hurry, I wondered why he\u2019d picked me, I didn\u2019t totally trust him and in the end I told him I didn\u2019t have any cash on me. By way of reply he flung at me, \u201cWhy don\u2019t you just say you won\u2019t help me instead of bothering to dream up an excuse?\u201d I went off feeling a bit ashamed at my lack of charity. I told myself \u2013 later, obviously \u2013 that I could have asked him for his story, given him something towards his 20 euros and in return got a nice warm feel-good glow. Two weeks later I once again heard a voice calling out \u201cDo you speak English?\u201d It was the same man, with the same little wheeled suitcase. 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