I'd had to go to the doctor to get a note saying I could fly.
I had glandular fever (picked up from an unwashed cup in a backpacker's hostel, not from all the Swedish blokes I'd been snogging) but was just well enough to fly halfway round the world, from Sydney to London.
So they put me in the "problem" row by the bulkhead, between two tiny babies and their anxious mothers.
After about an hour on board, I realized that one of the mothers was "Thereza Bazar":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thereza_Bazar from Dollar, a cheesy '70s pop band, taking her
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