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Everything ran pretty smoothly for our journey to Crete today. We had the longest bus ride from the terminal to the plane that I've ever experienced. It felt like we were going to a different airport. The flight took off 45 minutes late, but made up time, though the baggage retrieval system at Heraklion added maybe an hour to our journey, the conveyor belt kept stopping and having to be reset and a heavily tattooed man next to me said I was being very cheerful about it and that he wanted to punch someone. His wife, also impressively tattooed told me that I needn't worry as he was the sweetest guy, but he later made another joke about punching (I'd mentioned my suitcase was yellow and then three yellow suitcases came down in a row and he said - "you know if you see a yellow car you're meant to punch someone" and made as if to do it). He looked like he could knock my head off. But for some reason I wasn't scared and I joked back with the couple and we became firm friends and are going on holiday with each other next year.
On the plane the flight attendant had interrupted me playing on my phone to tell me how much she loved Taskmaster. I graciously thanked her and she told me she had watched the shows several times and it was her favourite thing to do. I then realised that I was wearing a Taskmaster "You time starts now" T-shirt and wondered if she was just talking to me because she assumed that I was a fan as well.
She'd really had to distract me from my phone to talk to me, so maybe she had recognised me. But wouldn't that be worse? It would mean that she saw the bloke off series 10 of Taskmaster going on holiday and he was so desperate to be recognised that he'd worn a Taskmaster T shirt.
It's one of the perils of having been on TV but not actually being famous. I am still not sure if she knew who I was. Either way it's faintly embarrassing - either she's a fan who didn't recognise the champion of champions of her favourite show or she thinks the champion of champions of Taskmaster only wears clothing with Taskmaster branding.
She didn't give me a free sandwich either way.
