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worse, I had to change terminals. As I was about to
check in at the Hyderabad airport, I prayed to Guruji to
help me. The line at the check in counter seemed larger
that day and I was sure I would miss my connecting
flight. Out of the blue, the girl at the 'platinum card'
check-in counter signaled me to come to her counter.
Without seeing my e-ticket, she told me, “Ma'am, you
hardly have enough time to catch your connecting
flight. Let me put a 'priority' sticker on your baggage so
that it's the first to come out and you can save some
time.” And she checked me in. How did she know? Why
did she just call me and no one else? Is it normal to
book in an ordinary passenger through the platinum
card counter? I think not. What I do think is Guruji
had heard my plea. As I was expecting, the flight from
Hyderabad was late by almost half an hour, and that
meant I had just half an hour to claim my baggage,
change my terminal and catch the connecting flight. As
we reached the arrivals, the belt number for our flight
was not displayed, thus precious minutes were lost
trying to frantically look for familiar faces when an old
potter came up to me and said, “Your luggage will
arrive on belt no. 2.” How did he know which flight? As
I reached belt no. 2, thanks to the 'priority' sticker, my
luggage was the first to arrive. I rushed to the next
terminal and was just in time to board the bus before
the boarding gates closed.
In another incident, I had to suddenly make some
unavoidable purchases worth 15,000 regarding my
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