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Originally Posted by nekokami
Two days to get your credit limit raised? Around here, you could get a new card with a ridiculously high limit in about 10 minutes, I think. 
I agree, now is not the time to re-read The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul. Nor, probably, anything by Kafka. |
oh god, tell me about it. i think i may actually be channelling kafka right now.
in fact the people at the bank lied to me.
i called back at 2 to talk to my "real" counsellor because that first jackass claimed to be unable to help me (lie number 1). my real counsellor wasn't there yet, because in fact today she only starts at 3 ; but the very nice lady i got that time said of *course* she could help me with that, and would 5000€ be enough or should she make it 10000€, just to be sure ? and i choked a bit and said let's not go crazy, 5000 should be fine. but, she reminded me, it will only be effective tomorrow morning at 6 o'clock.
so i went rushing off to the actual physical travel agency (where, have i mentioned this ? everything is more expensive, because you have to pay the price of the ticket and the airport taxes AND THE AGENCY COMMISSION too) because i was terrified that this new ticket would also disappear before tomorrow morning if i waited that long, and told my sad story and then explained my itinerary (i think could see the travel agent lady start to salivate at this point). so she put in all the dates and the cities and said "ok this is just a simulation for the moment,
that trip will cost you 5000€." farking incompetent travel agents now, as if my life weren't complicated enough.
so i explained to her the little trick that HER COLLEAGUE had explained to me the last time i had gone in there for information, about how you have to call it a round-trip, not one way, even though it's not the same cities... and we finally found the tickets i had in mind at the correct prices (approximately 20% of the original price she quoted me, by the way). *except* for the flight between toronto and edmonton, which i had seen online for around 200€, and she could only find at 400€. she said, "why don't you just reserve all the other bits, and then if you can find that one cheaper online get it there, and if not come back here tomorrow ?"
so she reserved the first round-trip and a half, and added on the extra-expensive insurance without asking me (as if i'm not already spending enough money), and then she said "let's just try your visa card
*just in case*." and i said, "well if you really want to but i'm telling you right now it won't work."
and guess what, it went through with no problem.
("not active until 6 tomorrow morning" ? LIE TWO !!!).
whatever. at least i now have 75% of my tickets, and in exchange for the higher agency prices and commission i paid they gave me a hideously ugly "travel wallet" to keep all my documents in. i'll be very suprised if i actually use it for anything because seriously, really ugly.
now i'm trying to get that farking last ticket from toronto to edmonton. i do the search with the dates and the cities, and about 50 results come up for around 200€, and one by one i click on them and every farking one replies "we're sorry, that flight is no longer available." WHY THE HELL IS IT STILL ON THE SITE THEN ???? just how far is it from toronto to edmonton ? maybe i should leave a day early and just walk there.
ralph sir edward, not only will i gladly allow you to manage my travel arrangements should i ever go to texas, but if by any chance you wanted to take over for this trip that would be fine with me, because i have really had it. i swear to god, i never want to see another flight comparator in my LIFE and probably by the time i get back i'll feel exactly the same about airports. just find me a cheap ticket between toronto and edmonton for the 7th of october (or the 6th at the worst, but preferably the 7th), ideally direct, preferably around 200€ but at this point i will go up to 300€, leaving anytime after noon and preferably arriving not too late (because i don't know what time my cousin goes to bed, but she's technically my father's cousin and might not want to stay up too late).