This Instant And Moment - 2022!

[Smeghead]

Bah...I booked a concert happening in London in August months ago. Booked the train travel and a hotel. Cut to just the other week, talks of further train strikes possibly in early August, so I get spooked and book myself a backup coach ticket just in case.

Then earlier this week, I get a call from my solicitor - the house I'm in the middle of buying finally has all the required documents sorted, and we can discuss a completion date. The seller has suggested the same day I'm due to travel down to London - initially I'm against it, but my solicitor says I don't really need to be there that exact day, I just need to collect the keys which can be ready from lunchtime onwards, I can get the keys another day if I miss it etc etc., so I'm persuaded and figure I can quickly swing by the estate agents, grab the keys, then get the train to enjoy my little weekend before coming back and getting stuck in with the house.

Get an email today - "Sorry, the concert has been cancelled". But it's both a blessing and a curse. I guess now I can just focus on the house instead of rushing about, but now I'm out £400 after the hotel and all the travel and everything. I could still go down to London and enjoy myself, but I'll probably end up spending another hundred or so on food etc., plus the whole focusing on the house thing, I've decided against it.

 

[dlockers]

Bah...I booked a concert happening in London in August months ago. Booked the train travel and a hotel. Cut to just the other week, talks of further train strikes possibly in early August, so I get spooked and book myself a backup coach ticket just in case.

Then earlier this week, I get a call from my solicitor - the house I'm in the middle of buying finally has all the required documents sorted, and we can discuss a completion date. The seller has suggested the same day I'm due to travel down to London - initially I'm against it, but my solicitor says I don't really need to be there that exact day, I just need to collect the keys which can be ready from lunchtime onwards, I can get the keys another day if I miss it etc etc., so I'm persuaded and figure I can quickly swing by the estate agents, grab the keys, then get the train to enjoy my little weekend before coming back and getting stuck in with the house.

Get an email today - "Sorry, the concert has been cancelled". But it's both a blessing and a curse. I guess now I can just focus on the house instead of rushing about, but now I'm out £400 after the hotel and all the travel and everything. I could still go down to London and enjoy myself, but I'll probably end up spending another hundred or so on food etc., plus the whole focusing on the house thing, I've decided against it.

Can you move the date? Of the hotel I mean

 

[Freakbro]

Yea, it's worth an ask. Explain the concert has been cancelled and can you change it to another date. We've asked before, some will some won't.

You might be able to do the same with the train ticket too, on the national rail site

Advance Tickets​

Book with Confidence​ The rail industry have introduced an easement to the terms & conditions of Advance tickets sold by Train Operating Companies, to help you gain confidence in travelling by rail again. Between Monday 21 June 2021 and 30 September 2022, Advance tickets can be exchanged to travel on the same journey but at a different time or date, paying any difference in fare but fee-free or surrendered back to the retailer for a rail travel voucher which can be used on any future journey or purchase within 12 months. Changes must be requested no later than 6pm (18:00) the day before you are due to travel. After this, Advance tickets can still be changed up to the departure of the first booked train for a fee. Check with your ticket retailer to find out if they are participating in the Book with Confidence scheme.

 

[Martynt74]

Looks like the cat has had another stroke, my wife took him to the vets and they've suggested she take him back later to have him put down

She's had him for 16 years which is longer than we've been together, so she's understandably upset as he's her baby. I dread to think how she'll be over the next few weeks. What's worse is we just spent about £180 on 6 months medication

Update, and he's gone.

She's a bit of a wreck, he'd always wait for her to go to bed and then follow her in for cuddles, and then wait for me to get up in the morning before going in for more cuddles. So it's that going to bed/getting up routine that's going to be really hard for a little while.

 

[Alice In Wonderland]

Update, and he's gone.

She's a bit of a wreck, he'd always wait for her to go to bed and then follow her in for cuddles, and then wait for me to get up in the morning before going in for more cuddles. So it's that going to bed/getting up routine that's going to be really hard for a little while.

Awwwwww, I'm really sorry to hear that.

 

[cheesefest]

Euromillions prizes need to increase for the middle prizes. A customer got 3 numbers and 2 lucky stars. Guess how much they won…….




£48.10! Pathetic! Needs to be mid 00s minimum.

Reduce the jackpot and give better prizes lower down.

Even paid out less than £2.50 (cost of ticket) for 2 numbers before. Insulting

 

[SideWinder]

Euromillions prizes need to increase for the middle prizes. A customer got 3 numbers and 2 lucky stars. Guess how much they won…….




£48.10! Pathetic! Needs to be mid 00s minimum.

Reduce the jackpot and give better prizes lower down.

Even paid out less than £2.50 (cost of ticket) for 2 numbers before. Insulting

Oh wow.

I put £100 on tonight's lottery (not telling you all which draw!) so fingers crossed...not done it for a while and seem to be a bit lucky so we'll see.

 

[Minibiker]

Oh wow.

I put £100 on tonight's lottery (not telling you all which draw!) so fingers crossed...not done it for a while and seem to be a bit lucky so we'll see.

Hoowwww much?!!!

 

[SideWinder]

Hoowwww much?!!!

Yeah realising I may get that reaction!

I haven't done it for ages and thought, if you do it may as well do it 'big'.

 

[Minibiker]

Yeah realising I may get that reaction!

I haven't done it for ages and thought, if you do it may as well do it 'big'.

Go big or Go home!! Fingers crossed bud

 

[dlockers]

How can you not love London?

 

[savagesam117]

Playing Xbox through my iPad runs surprisingly well. Especially online.

Didn’t fancy sitting downstairs so iPad in bed, headphones in and a few games of shipment

 

[Abraxaz1]

So guess who's in the cologne police station and is being deported from Germany....


Yep that me.

My on flight luggage was stolen and it had my passport in it...

So I was arrested for trying to gain entry into the country without a valid form of identification.

So now I have a German criminal record for my bag being stolen.

**** my life, if I didn't have bad luck I'd have no luck at all.

Ok so I'm being deported to Stansted I live in Carmarthen...

And they haven't let me sleep so I'm on no sleep in 24 hours in 2 hours...

 

[Abraxaz1]

So just a update
At 2am after they finished my interview, they took my wallet and money off me.

Then dumped me into the departure lounge after passport control, so no shops just gates.

They then escorted me Infront of the entire airplane and put me in my seat. Then gave me my wallet back.

When. The mini cart comes around I'm going to demolish it. I haven't eaten anything since mid-day yesterday and I haven't drink anything in a while.

Never going to Germany again

 

[JamesH85]

Wow, where was you hand/flight luggage for someone to steal, anytime I've ever took a flight I put it right above my head in the compartment.

Sounds like your treatment was pretty rough, do they not contact authorities in UK to verify anything?

 

[Abraxaz1]

Wow, where was you hand/flight luggage for someone to steal, anytime I've ever took a flight I put it right above my head in the compartment.

Sounds like your treatment was pretty rough, do they not contact authorities in UK to verify anything?

It was litterally in the cabinet above.my head. I waited till the end before leaving as my friend was getting in about 35 minutes after me so I was in no rush.

Got up went to grab my bag and it wasn't there, told the flight staff who told security but the person who took it was through customs before security got there. So a German passport holder must have taken it.

I tried to raise the issue with the border security and they sent security to search the plane.
No joy so they placed me under arrest for trying to enter Germany without a valid form of identification???

Put me in a cell for 3 hours between 8 and 11, then Interviewed me for 2 hours put me back into the cell to sleep for the flight home in the morning.

At 2 am they came in and took me out of the cell, escorted me through the airport and dumped me in departures. Where they took my wallet off me.


I then spent the night trying to sleep but failed massively.

They then left me alone till 7 ish where they frog marched me through the departure lounge and then frognmarched me up onto the plane

 

[JamesH85]

I'm usually first time stand up and grab my bag, even if I sit back down and have it on my lap, that's my dad mode kicking in though.

Well that sounds horrific.

 

[Dyson]

@Abraxaz1 That's awful! What was the trip for, work or pleasure?

 

[dlockers]

That's nuts. I've seen folk take others bag but not to this extent!

 

[Abraxaz1]

@Abraxaz1 That's awful! What was the trip for, work or pleasure?

For pleasure was going to see a friend who I haven't seen since before COVID and his new born plus the rest of the lads...

British customs were so much better, took me to a room offered be a cup of tea and biscuits (first liquid and solids for a while)
Luckily there's a railway strike on apparently wouldn't want my misery to prematurely end.

They sent me to Stansted, I flew from Bristol my car is in Bristol.....

You couldn't make this **** up