By: Robin J. Engel “Attention, Ladies and Gentlemen. Is there anyone on this plane that would like to take a later flight in return for a $500 voucher? It seems that we have overbooked.” Sometime, one person’s mistake is another person’s good fortune. The year was 2013. I’d left my job and decided to travel…
TRAVELER By: Robin J. Engel It is the year 2020. It is the time of Covid. I won’t be able to go to another country any time soon and I just got a new passport. I want a refund, or at least a few years added onto the 10 year renewal. I’ve never really fit…
Notes: I realize this is not a story about the Quarantine, or even about things that happened during the Quarantine. It is a story I performed at a story-telling event in Mesa, the night Before everything in my town was about to get shut down and go into quarantine. It was a very surreal moment.…