The seek of the lost horse in the jungle..

Oh my, oh my.. where to begin here..

Mid-flight while I was wandering through the cabin, I realised someone acting a little bit strange. Not strange in a weird way but I noticed something was going on. He was standing on the aisle and was unquiet. Now, many passengers stand on the aisle during a longer flight, sometimes to just exercise their legs, or to chat with someone sitting somewhere else.. So I went to this 40 year-old man and asked him if everything was alright. He very quickly said yes and returned to his seat. But I´ve been flying for quite a time now and I surely know when a passenger isn´t really telling me the truth. And I just can´t let things go. I personally take a lot of pride and passion in making sure that as many of my passengers have the best time while on board in order to leave the plane satisfied with their flight and with a smile in their faces. So I asked him again if he was sure that there was nothing I could do for him. He then said:

-"I lost my horse"

-"Hmm..ok.." - me going like: ?!

-"It looks like that" - he pointed then to his son.
His son was holding the smallest chess table I´ve ever seen. And then all became clear to me. Even not being a keen chess player, I understood a chess piece had simply slipped down. It was a light flight so I bended down onto the next row and tried to find it myself. But even with the scarce of passengers (and therefore feet!) nearby on that Embraer Jet, I simply couldn´t find it. So I went to the galley and grabbed a torch. It was worthless. Mind you, it was really the tinniest, smallest, most petit, litttle piece I´ve ever seen. And its grey colour didn´t help as well. I even took the passengers seat cushion off mid-flight and we simulated a piece dropping down (in order to see where it would fall) but nothing helped. I think the passenger quickly became a little bit embarrassed of my endless attempts to find the piece, he kept saying it was alright if we didn´t find it, it wasn´t that important. But I just wanted to do everything I could think off in order to find it. After all, losing a knight it´s something you don´t want on a chess game!

Oh well, kudos to traveler-edition games and the fun they provide at 38.000 feet!