Stupid boy

....wandering around all day with the right contact lens the wrong way
round.

No wonder it felt a bit odd.

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Contact Lens Fairies, a favourite trick of theirs. Also watch out for
transposed lenses, solution not neutralized, hidden lenses and
memorably, the chilli contamination.

They are bastards, if I ever catch one of the little shits...

 

On Sun, 09 Nov 2003 11:51:41 +0100, Frank_Leake

A personal favourite

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Heh! Can beat that.

This week flying back from Bankok assumed I was on the Thursday (6th Nov)
evening flight leaving at 00.35 arriving back in the UK Friday morning.
Problem was that flight on the 6th left 24 hours earlier & I was trying to
get on the Friday the 7th morning one. At £130 each x 4 to change the ticket
was going to be expensive - except they very kindly dropped the charges for
the kids so ended up costing £260.

A big thank you to Trail Finders for having completely ambigous itinery
confirmations and who couldn't give a shit and big vote of thanks to Thai
Air for the help, discount, biscuits.and getting us on a full flight. (we
ended up with a gang of four seats - I reckon someone else did the same).

Lessons learnt:-

1: Check your itinery in detail
2: Any flight departure time after midnight corresponds to that date.
3: Always reconfirm your flights
4: I'm a thick twat

Buzby

 

On a business trip to somewhere in the US, I checked out of my hotel,
and got a colleague to take me to the airport. While I unloaded my bag,
he went to find out what check-in desk I had to go to. While he was
gone I looked at my ticket to find that I wasn't due to leave for
another 24 hours.

I got back the hotel, checked back in to the same room - which,
fortuitously hadn't yet been serviced (I said I was fine with that) -
and found one of my ties in the wardrobe.

 

Buzby was seen penning the following ode to ... whatever:

Which reminds me that they're also due a nasty letter. I've used them
quite often for my regular flights to Germany, as they were far better
than ebookers (not hard, that).

On the last couple of flights, I've discovered that the inbound
journey wasn't changeable although they said it was and it even said
on the booking confirmation they sent out[1] and other niceties. The
top class one though was last weekend.

I turn up at Heathrow, wave passport in face of checkin bird, get on
plane, no unusal probs.

In Munich, I wave the credit card and passport in the face of the
checkin bird. She, too lazy to type my name in, swipes CC. No flight
booked. Swipes frequent flyer card. No flight. Timo waves booking
confirmation, bird starts checking booking confirmation and passport
against the passenger list.

Turns out that the flight had been booked against some random credit
card number which definitely wasn't the number of the card *I* had
used to book the flight with. Bird points out to me that in case
someone had turned up with a matching credit card number, all hell
would've broken lose because the booking details and passport wouldn't
have matched and some nice 2m x 2m airport policeman would've probably
tried to see if he can shove his submachine gun up the perpetrators
nose.

I think I need a new travel agency, I do.

[1] Checkin bird in FFM checks the booking code. Calls
supervisor. Supervisor checks booking code. Code on the booking
confirmation doesn't exist anymore and I've been booked on a
nonchangeable flight.
Unfortunately I didn't have the presence of mind to request
confirmation of this in writing so I ended up paying for the return
flight twice.

 

The left one felt a bit dodgy today. A shufti in the shaving mirror
revealed that I had a bit of the edge of the lens folded underneath.
Easy fixed, but...

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Newbie. I can tell an inverted lens in about 30 seconds

 

Oh ged. This is some louche double entendre I've wandered into, isn't
it?

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Given that mine are hard gas-perms I can tell *before* it goes in
my eye

Phil

 

Heh, we got away with something similar in Melbourne coming back from
honeymoon - ticket said one thing, itinerary (printed later) said
another, and we managed to pick an arbitrary point in the middle to
turn up to the airport, at the *internal* terminal for what we then
claimed we knew to be an *external* flight.

Ahem. Thanks to BA/Qantas for sorting us a flight the following day,
for no extra charge ;o)