Sunday, February 28, 2010

a costly blunder

WAAAHHHH!!!!!!!! rm500 just flew off the window!!!!
am i getting old or what????

i was e-mailing a friend regarding dad's flight details to melbourne next month for the purpose of buying his travel insurance when i realised that there was a mistake on the ticket!!! instead of 27 march for his coming home date, it was printed 27 april instead!!! AAHHHH!!! horror of all horror! dad only wanted to spend 2 weeks in melbourne and not 6 weeks!!!
so i quickly got into airasia website and went to change the date. sob sob sob! the new date costs me rm500 extra and of course i am pulling that amount from my own wallet. what a costly blunder! but luckily we realised the mistake now and not when date was about to board his flight back from melbourne. sob sob sob!

and i thought that i had tuition this afternoon. i had put out all the 5 seats. and just now, it struck me. all the 5 kids had come on thursday and we even had 3 pizzas and 2 garlic bread! damn! i think i need a break. i had been doing quite a lot of thinking and planning for others. can i empty the recycle bin in the head so that it does not overflow?

5 comments:

Fely said...

Like you said, at least you sedar now and not last minute when your dad was at the airport in Australia. I know RM500 is a lot tapi it's better than worse case senario lah huh.

We all get to this stage where we make silly mistakes like these. But it's all a learning process and nothing else. Old age doesn not even come into the picture, ok! heheheh X

PengPeng彬彬 said...

yeah la i agree bah. better now than three minutes before boarding the plane.

I was just curious, couldn't you ring up airasia to change the date? or is it because of the price difference in ticket?

poor you.

yeah i get a few senile moments every now and again. the worst is when i'm spelling a word which i thought i was spelling right and didn't realise the mistake.

take care..

xx

Betty said...

AirAsia is so not sympathetic. But spending 6 weeks in Melbourne would be more costly I guess. BTW, was it your mistake or the airline mistake that the date was wrong? Haiya...If their mistake lagi tension owh...

Anonymous said...

Hello. And Bye.

escape2 said...

i think i made the mistake myself. i might have accidentally rolled the mouse when the arrow was still on the month. haiz...let bygone be bygone.
i have already paid my bill