How One Phone Call Can Let You Escape Death

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Escape death

To escape death makes you think differently. A regular Thursday morning 1996 checking in at the airport in Lima, Peru, for a one-day business trip to Arequipa in the southern part of the country. With the boarding pass for flight 251 to Arequipa, I had time to take a cup of coffee at a small coffee-shop close to the boarding area. The weather was beautiful and the fog that sometimes could delay early morning flights was gone. The pre-boarding was loudly announced in the airport’s old speaker system. At the same time, my mobile phone rang. It was at the beginning of the mobile phone era, and particularly in a country like Peru the cellphone system still wasn’t very reliable. In the other end of the phone, I had our branch manager from Chiclayo, in the northern part of Peru. By only listen to his voice, I could immediately notice that he had something serious to tell me. – Señor Nilsson, he started. – The tax authorities are here right now with instructions to close down the branch if we can’t show the…. The loudspeaker announced the last call for the boarding of flight 251 to Arequipa, and I had to take a quick decision

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