Things that piss you off!

[Jon MW]

When you book a flight and realise 10 minutes later you got the dates wrong by one day and get charged £150 to change the date when the flight was only £200 to start with.

If you booked it online or by telephone you should be able to cancel it and get a full refund because of distance selling regulations (I don't think there's an exception for flights).

Large companies abiding by this might be a trickier problem but I did it a few years ago - I booked a ticket to New York and the next day realised a day later would suit me better; they cancelled it no questions asked even though it was an economy, no-cancel; no-amendment; prepaid in full sort of deal.


EDIT: okay found out pretty quickly - there is an exception for flights; you can't cancel if you just change your mind; it isn't clear if you're still covered by it in some other way then.

[MintTrav]

When you book a flight and realise 10 minutes later you got the dates wrong by one day and get charged £150 to change the date when the flight was only £200 to start with.

If you booked it online or by telephone you should be able to cancel it and get a full refund because of distance selling regulations (I don't think there's an exception for flights).

Large companies abiding by this might be a trickier problem but I did it a few years ago - I booked a ticket to New York and the next day realised a day later would suit me better; they cancelled it no questions asked even though it was an economy, no-cancel; no-amendment; prepaid in full sort of deal.


EDIT: okay found out pretty quickly - there is an exception for flights; you can't cancel if you just change your mind; it isn't clear if you're still covered by it in some other way then.

It's easily done. An ex of mine meant to book the Tomorrowland music festival in Belgium and accidentally bought tickets for the one in Atlanta.
They didn't help her out but she offloaded them easily enough.

[RED-DOG]

Form over function.

[Doobs]

When you book a flight and realise 10 minutes later you got the dates wrong by one day and get charged £150 to change the date when the flight was only £200 to start with.

If you booked it online or by telephone you should be able to cancel it and get a full refund because of distance selling regulations (I don't think there's an exception for flights).

Large companies abiding by this might be a trickier problem but I did it a few years ago - I booked a ticket to New York and the next day realised a day later would suit me better; they cancelled it no questions asked even though it was an economy, no-cancel; no-amendment; prepaid in full sort of deal.


EDIT: okay found out pretty quickly - there is an exception for flights; you can't cancel if you just change your mind; it isn't clear if you're still covered by it in some other way then.

It's easily done. An ex of mine meant to book the Tomorrowland music festival in Belgium and accidentally bought tickets for the one in Atlanta.
They didn't help her out but she offloaded them easily enough.

Turned up at the airport car park last year.  Bloody scanner couldn't read my plate, so pushed the button to get let in; I picked up my car park info to get the reference... and realised my ticket was for the next week.

Luckily I discovered you could get a refund of the car park cost less an admin fee of abput a tenner, but hed to pay mug rates for the week in the car park..

Is this the confused old farts thread?

[4KSuited]

When you have to abandon your car and walk the last c2.5 miles home at 3:45am because the car in front hasn't got a clue how to drive in snowy conditions & decides to slow down as they approach a gradient, then stop when they're halfway up. Since it would have meant overtaking him/her on a blind bend I had no choice but to stop behind.

Why the hell are you on the roads in a blizzard if you don't know how to drive in it?

[MintTrav]

Press conferences where you can't hear the reporters' questions.

Can't see why this still happens.

[MANTIS01]

2x road traumas today...

1) Hot woman veering out of lane towards me because fluffing hair in rear view mirror, swerved back last minute, causing me to spit lighted cigarette into lap. Severe panic ensuing.

2) Parked at lights. Old woman on mobility scooter crashes into back of me. Too much wtf to contemplate. Old disabled woman writhing on floor, glass everywhere, passers-by running over screaming 'what did you do?' Hmmm I was making my way to work in calm, legal fashion when this wretched old shrew driving a fucking mobility scooter down the fucking highway simply drove straight into the back of my stationary vehicle. Sorry for any inconvenience caused.

Lucky to get to work alive and with relative coolness in tact. Too many challenges on the roads these days.

[Marky147]

I'm a terrible person... I laughed far too much at that

[4KSuited]

I'm a terrible person... I laughed far too much at that

+1

[booder]

I'm a terrible person... I laughed far too much at that

+1

Ditto

[Karabiner]

I'm a terrible person... I laughed far too much at that

+1

Ditto

Me too

[RED-DOG]

AAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH!!!!!


Films that start with a 30 second clip of a dramatic, spooler filled situation and then fade to black with the words, 4 Years earlier......



AAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!

[bobAlike]

Buying unripe nectarines ‘cause I like’em hard and less than 24 hours later they are soft.

[Woodsey]

Buying unripe nectarines ‘cause I like’em hard and less than 24 hours later they are soft.

Keep them in the fridge, that’s probably why they were hard when you bought them.

[bobAlike]

Buying unripe nectarines ‘cause I like’em hard and less than 24 hours later they are soft.

Keep them in the fridge, that’s probably why they were hard when you bought them.

These were kept in fridge