Hello and sorry for my absence . . . I was off sailing around the lovely islands serving absolutely no purpose. Not so different from my regular life (where I also have little purpose), just different scenery. I did treat myself to the Internet cafe on board the ship. Now, I can spend money with the best of them, but sticking my credit card in the machine to pay a small fortune for some web time is not my idea of fun spending. But one morning I decided it was worth it, so I took my coffee and went down to watch the sunrise and send an email to my daughter.
There's a husband and wife there, obviously upset. He's got red eyes, she's sniffing, but I try to mind my own business and write my email. I'm a really lousy typist. Never learned. But, I have pointlessly long fingernails, so I suppose I do make a bit of noise. A few expensive minutes go by and the man comes over to me and says . . .
"Excuse me, but we don't know how to work the Internet, can you help?"
I look into his sad, teary eyes, and say, "Sure, what do you need?"
"Well," he sniffs, "we've had a death in the family, so we need to find a flight from St. Bart's back to Wisconsin. How do we do that?"
So, with my credit card securely slipped into the slot, I start searching all the travel sites while his wife man's the communal printer. I go to the airline sites, everything I can think of, all the while, he's weepy and she's sniffing. Finally, after $65.00 in charges, the cheapest thing I can find is around $800.00. The information spits from the printer.
The wife says, "Honey, we can't afford that much for plane tickets."
So I say, "Ma'am, once you get home, you can send a copy of the obituary and/or the death certificate to the airline and I'm sure they'll give you some sort of bereavement fare."
He says, "Really?"
"Yes," I tell him. "They are really quite accommodating."
His eyes brighten. "Even when it's your cat that died?"
So, I'm pretty much out $65.00 and last I heard, they were putting Fluffy in the neighbor's deep freeze until the ship returned to the US.
Welcome to summer!
Kelsey
FILM AT ELEVEN, July, 2005
Posts
7 comments:
ROFLMAO -- and thanks! Because some of it needs to be laughed off!
You'll pay a lot to get away from your bunkmates, won't you?
What a great story. Thanks for making my day today.
Rickey
OMG, only you, Kelsey!
Now that I've picked myself up off the floor, I need to know. Did you keep a straight face?
LOL--you must have died! Lord my teeth would have gone down to stubs! And what could you say without appearing to be an insensitive cat-hater!!
where can i get more info?
I would like to jump in here and bring to everyones attention that the information on this blog should also be shared with the readers of http://www.articlebeat.com Our sites readers and authors would benefit from the information being discussed here and would help get the word out faster, to everyone interested. With plenty of website content on our site, the bloggers here would benefit from our site and our site users would benefit from the bloggers.
Come share, exchange and debate with us at http://www.articlebeat.com today.
Lost in the credit card junlgle? Keep your cool and apply online for credit card. A hassle free way to your credit card.
Post a Comment