Ok guys, this is true and happened to me in the airplane :
The last time I was visiting Pakistan, an illeterate man was sitting next to me. When the stewardess gave out the forms for people to fill out before landing, the guy asked me to fill out the form for him. I was like “sure, I will be glad to do it.” And then as usual, I started to write down passport number etc etc, and then I asked him " sir, what is your family name?" THe guy got all red, and had this shy smile on his face. He answered me, “Farzana”!
[This message has been edited by LaDy iNtElleCT (edited May 03, 2001).]
WEll Yank,, listen to this,, I know there isn't a concept of "last names" amongst the common population of pakistan. They call it "family name".... so I was supposedly asking for his last name and he ended up giving me wife's name... meaning "family name" to him was his wife.
Couple of years back I was travelling back to London from Lahore with a friend, who was sitting next to window (window seat), I was in the middle and one the isle seat was a middle ages guy (he was from mirpur but no offence to any mirpuri).
His family was sitting in the middle seats ... .and pretty much annoyingly loud. Particularly Waqas was really annoyed about their interference. After nearly three hours of flight when Waqas was looking out of window the old guy asked him (in punjabi), "assee kithay hasray aaN?" (where are we now?) .... Waqas looked at his face and looked down through the window, looked back and replied him, "Kamokee aa gayya ay." (We are approaching Kamokee.
Kamokee is a small town about twenty miles from Lahore on the way to Islamabad.
It was so funny at that moment that I couldn't stop laughing.
It happens so often. I used to do it for the growing number of “customers” provide you a good pastime at the tale-end of the journey. But now I prefer to give my passport to someone else to fill in my form. It needs just a little bit of acting
When I came to US 19 years ago, on a PAN AM Flight, the air hostess asked me 4 time some thing before giving me a form before landing, and every time I asked her to repeat it for me, then she asked me do I speak English?? And my response was
YES.
Later on I found out that she was asking me if I am visiting US or am a US citizen/permanent residence.
Long time ago they used to give 2 different types of forms, 1 for visitors and the other for residence/US citizens.
