So, there I was – the flight had just been called, we’re all waiting at the gate and I’m reading my book. Occasionally I look up (yeah girls, just in time to catch the cute guy in the combats… with his girlfriend) and this time I zone in on the old dears.

Asking a fellow passenger to take their photo by the window (plane in view) the ladies posed. After a couple of successful snaps, the chap with their disposable camera asked if they would take one of him and his family in the same spot. After giving it some thought, one of the old girls answered “Sorry dear, but we only have two pictures left and we wanted to take some photos of the palm trees.”

Rather than try and explain that he wanted to use his own camera, the chap walked away looking more than a little perplexed, before the second lady whispered to her companion “I wouldn’t want photos of him anyway, did you see that stain on his shirt?”, both completely oblivious to the comedy of the situation.

I’ve often wondered why those 2 little old ladies were in Tehran airport (come on, it’s a strange post-retirement holiday destination isn’t it?) but they did make me chuckle.

Woman, rolling her eyes – it must be all that Marijuana they have in this city!

- Overheard while checking out at the Sheraton Amsterdam Hotel