Many years ago I was in Dubai at the hotel swimming pool with several of my colleagues (all flight crew). There was this huge guy (300+lbs.) on a deck chair wearing these small black speedos, his big belly balanced on top of this dude. In addition he was laying there with his legs spread.

We made several (nasty) comments about his appearance in Dutch and had a blast at his expense.

Don't you know our jaws dropped when after a couple of hours tanning the fat guy got up and wished us a great day in perfect Dutch. It was even worse when I discovered that he was one of my first class passengers later that evening on my flight. ......well you had to be there.

Speedos and my mouth = my downfall

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Alex Jonker