“Then you call the pilot,” my daughter said.

Pauline’s children had found such a good storage place for their envelope with money that they promptly forgot to take it with them again after landing.

Pauline (48): “They had both received fifty euros from grandparents, Liv (7) and Evi (9). We had not noticed that they had taken the envelope with the money from their bag during the flight and put it in the storage compartment of the seat in front of them. We found out a few days later, when the girls remembered.

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‘Then you just call the pilot’, Liv responded impassively, when my husband and I were out loud. I consoled myself with the thought that a cleaner might have found a very hefty tip.

We compensated the girls for their loss and urged them not to tell grandparents.”

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