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Originally Posted by nekokami
Oh, poor Z-chan! I am sending dreams of chocolate your way.
It may be helpful to read Pratchett's Thief of Time, which does not involve airlines in any way, but does involve chocolates being used as an offensive weapon against the Auditors, who would be good stand-ins for the evil ones who have tormented you so.  |
thank you nekochan for your support and your sympathy. i will take your recommendation under consideration. this problem may actually go beyond the scope of chocolate but it can't hurt. as a corollary to your recommendation, i would add that this is probably absolutely the WRONG time to reread "the long dark tea-time of the soul" by douglas adams which opens in heathrow (and things do not go well).
this morning i called the overtaxed travel agency number and they explained that the problem was due to the fact that there is a ceiling on my visa card (apparently this happens to people all the time when they try to buy an airline ticket, because the words were coming out of the lady's mouth before i even finished my story. since i've never reached my ceiling before it was news to me) and since obviously i use my card for other things in life (groceries, and soon large quantities of valium or some other opiate i think, which i am going to need after this experience), i didn't have enough left before my limit (also, have i mentioned this stupid trip is going to cost me a bloody fortune ?).
i called my bank and they are going to unblock the limit, but of course this will only take effect tomorrow.
so i called back the overtaxed agency number and said "can you just reserve the tickets until tomorrow when my limit is raised, and then i'll pay ?" and they said no, sorry, they can only reserve until the end of the day (bastards !!). "there's nothing we can do, the system is programmed that way, and dossiers which haven't been paid for by 9pm are automatically cancelled."
so i called the physical travel agency instead and i said "can i come in person and pay you by check ???" and they said "sure ! as long as your departure is more than one month away, because we don't accept checks for departures less than one month away."
which of course it is not.
so i'm just waiting until 2 to get confirmation from my bank counsellor lady and then i'm going to go to the agency with my checkbook and my visa card and the soul of my unborn first child and beg them on my knees to fix this mess for me because otherwise i will go INSANE, and i don't want to wait until tomorrow because what if the new ticket disappears by then ??? huh ??? THEN what am i supposed to do ????
arg. a curse be on all of them and their families and their friends and their unborn children for the next 70 generations.