Stupidity

This morning I was supposed to catch my cheap AirAsia flight from Phnom Penh to Bangkok that I had booked a month in advance. Instead, I caught a much more expensive (but nice) Bangkok Airways flight to Bangkok an hour later than I was scheduled to leave. Wherefore the discrepancy?

This morning, I ignored the three wake-up knocks that the hotel staff gave me this morning, because I kept looking at my watch at the side of the bed, and it was telling me that I had plenty of time before my driver was scheduled to leave with me for the airport. But, it turns out that sometime between yesterday and today, my watch stopped working for an hour and a half, so it was actually an hour and a half later than I thought it was. I suppose I should have judged that something was wrong by the height of the sun outside the window, but I just went by the watch, and I thought that the staff must have gotten the wrong wake-up time for me, thinking that I had requested an earlier time. This combination of bad luck and ignorance on my part caused me to miss the AirAsia flight. The moral is: Never trust that you are in complete possession of the correct time. Truly, time is fluid.