THE HEADLINES!!!

I got a kick out of reading this article. It seems that a businessman from Tacoma Washington on a business trip to the Far East was sent to the wrong place. The gentleman one Eugene Nelson was supposed to be on his way from Hong Kong to Taiwan, but ended up in Taiyuan, China which is deep in it’s interior, and not on the coast as Taiwan is.

Mr. Nelson survived in this town for a few days, with no money, very little help from American Express in getting money wired to him (It seems that you can't even use American Express where it is supposed to be taken.), getting a flight out of there, almost getting hit by a car, and a definite language barrier.

The AP Article does not state who was responsible for the error. Mr. Nelson is an engineer for Intel ® so I am figuring that the Travel Company that has the corporate contract with Intel may be to blame. If that were the case and this was me the headlines would read “Retired Special Forces Soldier Shoots Travel Agent”

Also on this we cannot overlook Mr. Nelson as far as his degree of fault. If I got a ticket that stated Taiyuan and not Taiwan, I would be questioning this fact by going to the local Chinese restaurant and asking Wonton, “Hey is this how you spell Taiwan in a literal translation into English?” Come to think of it I probably wouldn’t do that because every time I go to Mr. Wonton’s and I say thank you Mr. Wonton to the manager, he doesn’t look too happy. So he would probably tell me yes, and send my happy ass to Taiyuan instead of Taiwan. (Maybe Mr. Nelson did this very same thing in Washington?) Irregardless here we have an educated man with an engineering degree, and he can’t even get to the right city. Just makes me wonder if there should be a minus sign preceding the Intel Logo. (-INTEL®)