I was watching something SF where a woman had a large, unrealistic-looking white camcorder and she filmed something, then gave it to a guy to hold while she unscrewed the microphone. Then I was in the movie and the woman was screwing the microphone into a socket in the ceiling and we were in a plane although it looked inside more like a large ferry. I was given another microphone and told to strap myself into a seat with a socket next to it so I could listen, and I saw it was actually a headset.
We were already moving and although not all the seats were taken I couldn't find one with a socket next to it. Out the windows at the front and back (which were the wide and scenic-view type) I could see traffic all around us. We were moving very fast but we were on the harbour bridge. I said to someone I'd try going upstairs to first class to find a seat with a socket but a dark-haired woman said to follow her. Then I was on the outside of the plane, on top, and saw we were moving very fast on water. I couldn't see if the plane was on top of anything but although at first we were on the harbour and suddenly next moving along a canal or river I understood that we were "taxiing" to open water so we could take off. It wasn't a seaplane and I didn't understand how a plane with wheels could do that.
Then we were slowing down but it wasn't a plane any more, it was a small orange rowboat. I was at the front and I saw we weren't on the water but on a wooden pier. I jumped out but the boat nudged me and I fell into the water. I had a different bag to my usual one and I was concerned about my mobile and camera getting wet and tried to hold the bag up while I paddled around. Instead of climbing up onto the pier I swam about five feet away where there was a brick island with a planter box and a small wooden bench and climbed up there. Then I was going through my bag to make sure the electronics were okay.
Meantimes people were getting out of the boat and getting ready to get on a plane. I called out to one of the stewardesses not to forget me and she said she'd get a cardboard box so I wouldn't get wet. There was a woman and a girl about 5yo on the brick island with me and the girl was curious about what I was doing. The camera refused to stay in its case and the flash kept going off and the girl said, "Movies!" and the woman was trying to stop her from pestering me. To my left I could see a big metal stairwell with thick chicken wire to prevent people from falling off and all the people who were going on the plane were going up those stairs.
I was panicking about missing the plane, then I remembered I could get a train to the airport and next I was on the train with some other people who hadn't been able to go up the stairs to get on the plane. When we got close to the airport stop I remembered I hadn't packed talcum powder or deodorant in my suitcase (for some reason the suitcase had been packed months before and had already been taken to the airport). I decided I would probably be able to get some at the hotel when I arrived. Then I realised I didn't have a boarding pass or any proof that I was entitled to be on the flight and started looking in my bag for my chequebook since I remembered being at the post office and writing a cheque for $2,000 and sending it off for the ticket (and perversely, remembered coming out of the PO afterwards and running into a girl who had supposedly taken over diaryland).
When I was going through my bag I saw my camera was missing and I had to keep taking things out of my bag because I was sure it should be there. I had another bag with me which was like a wooden cashbox and I looked in that but it was full of self-adhesive stamps in dispensers and some cheap plastic rulers. A large woman came and sat down where I had been sitting and I had to ask her to move so I could check down the side of the seat for my camera. She found another camera that I was going to accept as my own since I wanted to take photos when I got where I was going. When I looked in the wooden bag again it was full of rolls of film. I realised I'd missed the airport stop and wanted to get off the train but couldn't even though it had stopped at another station. A man was arguing with one of the train staff about something but I couldn't quite understand what. I wondered if the plane was still waiting for me.
