Waleed, A Week and a Half Ago: Hi, I want to buy four tickets on Royal Jordanian because you have a totally awesome deal, roundtrip tickets for 30KD ($104)!!
Royal Jordanian (RJ): Cool. How many people?
Waleed, A Week and a Half Ago : Four people. For Wednesday.
RJ: Four people? Cool. Totally booking it. Hey, your names are really unusual by the way.
Waleed, A Week and a Half Ago : Whatever you say. We’re booked for next Wednesday?
RJ: Totally!
Cut to: Present Day
Deena: Hey, Waleed, are you sure your flight leaves at 5 p.m. tomorrow? Because someone just told me that they leave tomorrow at 8 p.m. and you guys are all on the same flight. Aren’t you?
Waleed: Uh, obviously. Wait, what?
Deena: I dunno. Here’s RJ’s number: 1-800-We-Suck
Waleed: Hi, I’m booked for a flight with you guys from
RJ: Awesome!
Waleed: For four people…
RJ: Oh right! I totally remember you, you’re the ones with the funny names!
Waleed: Tomorrow, at 5 p.m.
RJ: Oh. No. Actually, it’s today. Hey, what time is it now?
Waleed: Uh, 3:30 p.m.?
RJ: Yeah, your flight is in like, an hour.
Waleed: But I told you to book me on the flight for Wednesday!
RJ: You sure? Isn’t today Wednesday? The 24th?
Waleed: Today is Tuesday!!
RJ: Right, right, Tuesday.
Waleed: I should have been booked on the Wednesday flight!
RJ: Right. The 24th!
Waleed: No! Wednesday is the 25th!!
RJ: Whoops, sorry about that. Well, you can still make it, can’t you?
Waleed: No! I have to pack! And The flight is in like, an hour! And I have a job?
RJ: Oooh, right, jobs. Whatever, we just play Solitare all day. Let us know if you want to reschedule your flight! LATES!!
dial tone
Waleed: Okay. Okay. Okay. I have to figure this out. Okay. I just… I just won’t pick up my phone for the next two hours!! And it’ll all go away. And be fine.
Two Hours Later
Waleed: Hi, it’s the one with the weird name. Do you have flights for tomorrow?
RJ: We are so totally booked solid. I think it’s because we’re awesome. We are so awesome, with our handy calendars and helpful customer service!
Waleed:What about in business class?
RJ: No, tomorrow we’re bringing in the small plane.
Waleed: The what?
RJ: The small plane! To
Waleed: Today is WEDNESDAY!
RJ: Right! But we figure, wo goes to
Waleed: Fine. FINE. Book me for next Wednesday. Unless you’re using a small plane THEN also.
RJ: Oh, no. This Wednesday is really more of an experiment kind of thing. Small planes, yay! Come pick up the tickets soon, ‘kay?
Wednesday Afternoon
Waleed (defeated and dejected): Hi.
RJ: OMG, hi!! Nice to see you again, it’s been a long time!
Waleed: Whatever. Remember how you booked me on the wrong flight?
RJ: Uh, whatever to YOU. Remember how you didn’t check the tickets?
Waleed: Oh.
RJ: Right. Oh.
Waleed: Whatever, can I just have my tickets?
RJ: Sure thing, Strange Name Dude. (pauses before handing them over) Want to check the dates?
Waleed: Heh, heh heh. Um. (leaves)
The moral of the story is that you should always, always check your plane tickets once you buy them. Also, when you make your reservations, it’s probably best to ask the person what calendar year they are looking at, to make sure they aren’t booking you on a flight for Wednesday April 24, 2013.
1 comment:
You've got to laugh. You've just got to laugh or you will go stark raving mad. I've had similar conversations. It's like the training they get is one question deep, if you go to the next question you are over their heads.
Dying laughing - you really wrote it up hysterically.
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