Pulling out my hair

[jethrien]

This Europe trip is becoming more and more of a pain in the butt to get set up. I tried to get tickets to a production of The Winter's Tale in the Globe theater. According to the FAQs of both the theater and the ticketing service, they'd hold onto the tickets at the box office for me. And yet the confirmation email blissfully tells me they're mailing them and I'll get them in a week. Great. The problem is, I leave tomorrow morning. I call the people in England. They say they can't do anything, and I need to call the Sunday before the show to try to arrange new tickets being printed and held. So this means I have to call England from the hotel room in France. Grr.

We'd planned to take the train from Paris to London and back. Unfortunately, I noticed today the teeny-tiny little asterisk on the train we needed to take from London to get back in time to make our flight. That train doesn't run on Saturday. Guess which day we're leaving. The next train doesn't get in soon enough for us to clear security. Fabulous. So I frantically start looking up tickets on Expedia.com. I found some that weren't too bad - more money and more wasted time than we'd anticipated, but not that bad. Get all the way through making the reservations - and this airline doesn't issue E-tickets for this flight. Shit. Fortunately, chuckro isn't joining me until next week. I just arranged to have the tickets sent to his house, and he can bring them with him. But if something goes wrong, I'm not sure what I'll do. Grrrrrrrrr.

Comments

[ivy03.livejournal.com]

Look at it this way - it could be worse. When my mother travelled France in high school with her roommate, her roommate had about five suitcases. They were hostel-hopping, so my mom convinced her to send all of her suitcases but one home. Problem was, she had sewn all of her travelers cheques into the lining of one of the suitcases. Guess which suitcase. And this in the days before ATMs.

[chuckro.livejournal.com]

If something goes wrong, that's what credit cards and The Voice of Doom are for. Problems will be solved as they arise.

[zwist.livejournal.com]

Voice of Doom?

[chuckro.livejournal.com]

Refers to a particular tone of voice that I learned from my mother, which, when properly applied, can get anyone to do anything. It's her teacher-voice, and it carries an undertone of absolute, unarguable truth. There is no implied threat, because there is no need for one: This tone of voice says that you will do what I say.

I use it sparingly, lest I come to rely on it and become and really unpleasant person to be around.

[ivy03.livejournal.com]

Quicker, more seductive the voice of doom is...