Thursday, October 05, 2006

Idiotic

While we're on the subject of doing things to ourselves that are unhelpful, time-consuming and potentially costly, let me mention my latest entry into the dumb-a** hall of fame. Last month, I booked a trip for my mom and I to go to Detroit in two weeks. Upon further review just last week, I realized that I am actually going to be accompanying myself on said trip. Yes, folks, that's right, I booked two tickets on the same flight for me, myself (but not I. I guess "I" was not invited since I only accidentally bought 2 tickets in my own name instead of 3. ) I guess what happened is that when I used my Hotwire account, which has a handy drop-down menu of names from which to select the passengers, I selected myself twice. I'm such a genius. And of course, both Hotwire and the airline very generously offered to cancel my extra ticket to be used at a later date, with a friendly "estimated" $135 fee, of course. So, now I have a spare plane ticket for which I will have to pay an extra "estimated" $135 with all the extra money I have floating around. Oh goody. So now I have to tell my mother and my husband about what I have done, which should be really fun for everybody. As Jo said, "Good times."

6 comments:

Jo said...

Maybe the other Sarah Soule could go with you.

Sars said...

Sure, if we wanted to buy her a ticket from CA to TX first. Just got off the phone with David. Real good times, yeah real good times.

Jo said...

Ugh, I'm so sorry. That seems like such an easy mistake to make but it still seems wrong that they won't work you a little more.

kel said...

I believe Katja once bought a ticket to the wrong city. No, maybe it was the right city, but wrong state. Sucks either way. So sorry.

mitsi said...

Sarita- As much as this truly sucks, it sort of is funny in a sick, twisted way that only I can see right now (being as how I'm sick and twisted). Someday soon though, when you're no longer aching from the $135, you're gonna laugh about this. That poor girl in the right city of the wrong state is pretty d**n funny, too. Oh, I'm a bad person.

Katie said...

Guilty as charged. I booked a ticket for Eric when we were dating long distance. He lived in Manchester Connecticut, but the airport was in Hartford. I saw that Southwest flew to Manchester, and I booked the flight for him to, that's right, Manchester New Hampshire. I'm still not sure how this happened, but Eric's auto insurance agent figured that out for us in time.