Administrative Boo-Boo
Oh I'm so relieved it's Friday!! Aren't you?GLCB has arrived! Barely. Last night his flight was to take off at 5:10pm. Yea, problem is that it was taking off from the WRONG AIRPORT! When I made his reservations online I mistakenly reversed the flight plan. They had him leaving DC at 5:10pm going to NC. Not the other way around. Woops! To fix my Admin blunder GLCB had to exchange his round trip ticket for a one way to DC & pay $40 change fee. Um..yea but then we were left to buy him another $140 ticket back home!!! When all was said and done we'd have paid $103.70 for the original ticket + $40 change fee + $140 for the ticket home. Practically THREE TIMES the amount of the original round trip ticket!!
All I have to say is Thank God for mothers. Mom talked me down from my heightened state of "KILL KILL KILL!", and while GLCB was flying overhead, I was on hold with Independence Air. Thankfully the FlyI customer service department completely took pity on me and gave him a free ticket home stating "Everyone makes mistakes". So here I was ready to fire at the unsuspecting FlyI agent with statements like "I'll NEVER fly independence again!" or "Why the HELL didn't you just fix it in the FIRST PLACE when he arrived at the wrong airport? Don't you have a DAMN HEART!" or maybe even "I HATE YOU!!!" but alas I held back. Although I lost sight there for a minute I now know what's important. He's here, we're only $40 in the hole, and I didn't have to use my super human PMS powers to reach through the phone and strangle that FlyI agent.
1 hour and 34 minutes until my get away to the beach house. I need it.
posted by Jessiedc28 @ 1:57 PM
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What a story! I made a mistake one time buying tickets for a show. I thought I bought for 7pm and actually bought 3pm. So we showed up for the 7pm show. Thankfully, the still let us in. We sat in little folding chairs in the "I came to the wrong show" section. Yes, there were others.
Like a "play" show, with live actors. For clarification's sake, from the anal part of me. K. Bye now.
I was especially pleased as Independence is guessed to “go under”come the spring of 2005. I didn't think they'd spare $100 for my GLCB -- but I was highly impressed with the agents customer service despite her probable job loss this spring. I've been in that boat and it's not fun!
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