SOUTH AFRICA: Experience The Case Of A missing Shoe InFlight

When I was a lot younger my dad used to travel a lot for work. One day he was on an SAA flight from Johannesburg to Port Elizabeth and coincidently the EP cricket team was on the same flight home.

They were apparently in very good spirits after a successful tour and in the midst of their shenanigans they decided to steal my poor sleeping dad's shoe.

On awakening, just before landing, he realised he was missing a shoe. He alerted an air hostess to this, who kindly asked the pilot to announce about the missing shoe.

This was however not successful. On landing he had to walk off the plane, one shoe less than when he embarked on his trip. He walked into the arrivals area where the carousels are and I saw through the glass my shoeless dad.

Now being only about 2 years old at the time, I found this immediately distressing that my dad had lost his shoe and promptly burst into tears.

Bags, Cricket gear and other luggage were arriving on the carousel but no sign of the lone shoe! Eventually after all luggage and other belongings were collected, it seemed that the shoe was never to be found again but alas a few minutes later my poor dad's lone shoe appeared.

With the appearance of the shoe, the remaining cricket players in the vicinity all started clapping. Later, the pilot actually said to my dad, in all his years, he had never seen a person walk off his plane missing one shoe.