Worst day ever :(

Maz · 13 Jul 2007 at 16:37

Me and the lads have been booked up to go to Tenerife for a week for ages.

Friday the 13th of bloody July we fly, why am I sitting here posting this your probably thinking?

Because until this morning I was very excited about going away with 8 of my closest drinking buddies and to meet 2 of my very close friends out there.

Packed everything last night as any respectable male would, went out last night for a sesh and then stroll in this morning for the 3 s's and then off to the airport WRONG.......

I asked my father last week, 'Dad you got my passport?' 'Yes son it's in the safe' I trust my Daddy so I thought nothing off it,.

I ask my father to leave my passport on my computer table for the morning so I can pick it up on my way out.

I am greeted this morning by my mother telling me that I have no passport!
She then proceeds to tell me that my passport is at the Saudi Arabian Embassy getting processed for a Visa application as I'm going over there at the end of this month.

Awww **** so I've spent about 3 hours this morning making phone calls trying to trace this bloody passport to find that the application has not been started yet, I find out that I can have the passport sent via courier and I'll receive it either today, or tomorrow at a great cost!

Which would have been fine, however to get another flight it would have cost me another nearly £400!

And then if I made any mistakes on my Visa application due to the short amount of time available I'd not be able to fly to Saudi.

In the end I've had to bite the bullet, I've missed my flight because I can't get on without a passport.

I've not got my passport back I've left it for the application to get processed, and I'm going to claim my money back for the missed holiday on my travel insurance.

And I got charged to change nearly $1k worth of euros back to pounds

So now I'm left here with a suitcase full of summery clothes, a week of no drinking buddies and nothing to do!

Feel my disappointment please!!

On a side note I have decided to do 20 miles a day on my mountain bike in order to reach peak fitness again.

Maz · 13 Jul 2007 at 16:47

titchard said:
Sad to here that your holiday is ruined - but surely you check on your passport a little earlier than the day before?

If I go on holiday I check it's all in order a week or so before.

Plus if you parents knew you were going on holiday - surely they would have asked you for your passport so you knew it wasn't in the country???

Rich

I asked my father last week, and he made a mistake,.

A few of our passports have come back from Visa application, I can only assume he thought one of them was mine.

I've already sorted the insurance out, basically all I have to do is not turn up (Not difficult) and then travel agents send me an invoice which I forward on to the insurance company.

Maz · 13 Jul 2007 at 16:49

dirtydog said:
You call your father daddy?

Well he is "The Daddy" sometimes call him Papa Shango.

Maz · 13 Jul 2007 at 16:51

dirtydog said:
Solution to stop this happening in future: get your own place and look after your own passport yourself?

Got my own place, I leave all my valuable docs in my dads safe.

Maz · 13 Jul 2007 at 16:56

titchard said:
Buy your own safe then - your documents after all.

Rich

My Dad's got a 1 tonne book safe.

I have no need for a 1 tonne book safe, and I'd imagine they're rather expensive.

So for the sake of storing a passport I think I'd rather let my Dad do that for me, as opposed to buying a 1 tonne book safe.

Maz · 13 Jul 2007 at 17:00

dirtydog said:
It's not as if you can't get a replacement if it did get stolen *shrug*

Passport or Safe?

Maz · 13 Jul 2007 at 17:05

titchard said:
Well a small document safe isn't that much.

Anyway - the point is surely your father (Daddy, to you ) should have told you he was sending it off - as he would have known about your holiday, surely?

Rich

He did and as far as I was aware they'd all come back.

Not just me going away at the end of the month.

Turns out mine is the only bloody passport that hasn't come back yet.

So I knew and he knew that the passports had been sent, and I knew and he knew that we've had them back.

But I never and he never checked to make sure everyones passport was there.

We collectively made a big ass mistake leading to me not being able to go away and becoming so bored that I ended up writing this thread.