IT CAN ALSO HAPPEN TO YOU MY FRIEND!!

It’s the vacation season presently and many schools have closed down for summer vacations in Jaipur. In Jaipur the vacations are from may to July. I was traveling to Doha via Muscat with my mother and my sister. We were going to first fly to Muscat by an Oman air flight and then wait at the airport for 12 hrs to catch another Oman air flight to Doha. It was going to be tiring journey. We had started packing from a week before. Our flight was at 6:05 am I.S.T. I woke up at 2 in the night and got ready. I was completely prepared for the trip and the airsickness that awaited me. But nothing happened as I predicted as the trip Came to an end even before it started. We had got our baggage checked and were at the check in counter checking in our luggage . That’s when the blooper took place. The person at the counter was quite friendly and even asked my sister her name and where she was traveling to! And then the next minute from his mouth came out some words that I had not even expected in my dreams! He looked up at my mother and said-“sorry madam, u cant travel”. At first all three paused for a second!! We were completely shocked and perplexed. Then he told us that there was a spelling mistake in my mother’s name on her Qatari visit visa. This was a mistake my mom had noticed as soon as she had got the visa and had even talked about it to the concerning officials in Qatar. But they said it wasn’t going to cause any problem. But now here we were at the check in counter of the Sanganer international air port of Jaipur with a man telling us to go back home!! We tried to argue with the person at the counter but he told us that there was no way he could let us travel. He said that he had got direct instructions from the Qatar embassy to not allow any person with the difference of even a single alphabet on his name to travel. And hence we were forced to go back home with gloomy faces!!