Red Eye to Taiwan

Hello, Barbara bought me on the plane.  My name is LaVie.  I heard through the LaVie grapevine that I am the first water bottle that Barbara has had to purchase since leaving Sacramento in November 2015.  Not only that, but she had to pay another $1 sky tax which is something the airline added to the normal fee.  I am probably the most expensive water bottle that will ever be purchased in Asia.  Anyway, as you know, Barbara came from Vietnam and is taking the red eye on VietJet.  She used her usual trick as the last person entering the plane so she could see which aisles were empty and get a whole row to herself.  It was a nice flight that left Ho Chi Minh City at 1:30 am arrived in Taiwan at 5:55am.  The only glitch was having to purchase a return ticket in order to get the USA free 90 day visitor Visa.  Taiwan, like many other countries, will not let you enter the country if you do not have an exit ticket.  Thankfully, a nice lady at the ticket counter let us use her computer to purchase a ticket with a 24 hour free cancellation.  She say she has helped many people this way.  I wonder if she can fathom the depths of her good deed. This simple act by a person working at a obscure job in an obscure airport in the middle of Southeast Asia has probably saved people thousands of dollars, not to mention, mountains of stress and everything that goes along with that.

Barbara: Alright, it's been a lot of fun writing in the third person, but since the budget airline didn't give me a free water bottle,
I'm in a new, less attractive phase now, the phase where every trip to the airport is filled with trepidation. The phase where something goes wrong every time.....