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There was a story some years back about a guy who got on the wrong flight to Oakland ... he ended up in Auckland instead. https://www.cnn.com/2017/12/27/us/wro

There was a story some years back about a guy who got on the wrong flight to Oakland ... he ended up in Auckland instead. https://www.cnn.com/2017/12/27/us/wrong-flight-passengers-trnd https://www.cnn.com/2017/12/27/us/wrong-flight-passengers-tr...

InitialLastName 6y ago
There is a similar classic (much less expensive) mistake between New York Penn Station and Newark Penn Station, which are consecutive stops on the Amtrak line NYC.
- smabie 6y ago
  It can be a more expensive mistake than you think... I would sometimes see Chinese tourists get off at Newark station and always wondered if a) they made a mistake b) they ended up okay. Newark isn't a fun place to be at night.
  - InitialLastName 6y ago
    Luckily, there's another train to the city in 10 mins. Plus, these days the area around Newark Penn is nicer than the area around New York Penn.
  - swiley 6y ago
    Man that sounds like something I would do. I'm born here and ride Amtrack often too.
    - InitialLastName 6y ago
      I had a brief panic about it the first time I took the train to NYC (in high school) because all I knew was that I had to get off the train at "Penn Station" and I saw that on a sign as we were pulling out of the Newark station.
- madcaptenor 6y ago
  At one point they were thinking of renaming the big station in Philadelphia, 30th Street Station, after Ben Franklin, but they didn't do it. One reason I heard because they were afraid people would call it "Ben Station" and get it confused with the New York and Newark stations. (Also, Newark, Delaware is on the same line! But not many trains stop there.)
w-m 6y ago
In Germany we had this woman (unsuccessfully) suing a travel organization for booking her a ticket to Bordeaux, when she phoned them to book one to Porto: https://www.faz.net/aktuell/gesellschaft/bordeaux-statt-porto-frau-bucht-auf-saechsisch-falsches-flugziel-11890813.html https://www.faz.net/aktuell/gesellschaft/bordeaux-statt-port... Bit less fun because she didn’t actually board the plane. But nevertheless met with a lot of glee at the time, as the Saxon dialect is known for the soft consonants, and everybody likes to poke a little fun at it.
- schoen 6y ago
  It seems that whenever I try to order something "mit Hummus" at a kebab shop (ah, pre-pandemic) in German with my American accent, they give me Pommes instead. :-)
triceratops 6y ago
Pretty sure that happened in an episode of Full House too.

InitialLastName 6y ago

There is a similar classic (much less expensive) mistake between New York Penn Station and Newark Penn Station, which are consecutive stops on the Amtrak line NYC.

smabie 6y ago
It can be a more expensive mistake than you think... I would sometimes see Chinese tourists get off at Newark station and always wondered if a) they made a mistake b) they ended up okay. Newark isn't a fun place to be at night.
- InitialLastName 6y ago
  Luckily, there's another train to the city in 10 mins. Plus, these days the area around Newark Penn is nicer than the area around New York Penn.
- swiley 6y ago
  Man that sounds like something I would do. I'm born here and ride Amtrack often too.
  - InitialLastName 6y ago
    I had a brief panic about it the first time I took the train to NYC (in high school) because all I knew was that I had to get off the train at "Penn Station" and I saw that on a sign as we were pulling out of the Newark station.
madcaptenor 6y ago
At one point they were thinking of renaming the big station in Philadelphia, 30th Street Station, after Ben Franklin, but they didn't do it. One reason I heard because they were afraid people would call it "Ben Station" and get it confused with the New York and Newark stations. (Also, Newark, Delaware is on the same line! But not many trains stop there.)

w-m 6y ago

In Germany we had this woman (unsuccessfully) suing a travel organization for booking her a ticket to Bordeaux, when she phoned them to book one to Porto: https://www.faz.net/aktuell/gesellschaft/bordeaux-statt-porto-frau-bucht-auf-saechsisch-falsches-flugziel-11890813.html https://www.faz.net/aktuell/gesellschaft/bordeaux-statt-port... Bit less fun because she didn’t actually board the plane. But nevertheless met with a lot of glee at the time, as the Saxon dialect is known for the soft consonants, and everybody likes to poke a little fun at it.

schoen 6y ago
It seems that whenever I try to order something "mit Hummus" at a kebab shop (ah, pre-pandemic) in German with my American accent, they give me Pommes instead. :-)

triceratops 6y ago

Pretty sure that happened in an episode of Full House too.