I once approached approached the check in desk at Christchurch airport with a ticket to Sydney one wednesday evening....
Only it turns out I'd been a bit of a twat and turned up an entire day late as I had a ticket for a flight that did in fact leave on the Tuesday.

Despite having an incompetent fool in front of her, the lady went out of her way to put me on the next flight at no extra charge and even went as far as to say that 'It happens all the time' which I seriously doubt.

Being nice to nice people is easy. Being nice to complete idiots like me is something special.
(FartThroughAWalkieTalkie wished you were dead in ditch on, Thu 9 Feb 2012, 17:58, 6 replies)

I once made an online booking and mistakenly booked the return flight for a year later than I wanted. I turned up and presented my ticket to fly home to discover I was 12 months early. They made me buy another ticket, and when I got on the plane 20% of seats were free. I was not impressed and should have made an issue out of it.
( enoughblueskyforsailorstrousers, Thu 9 Feb 2012, 18:15, closed)

That's not the worst of it......
I did pretty much the same thing a couple of years later but realised my fuck up in time to pack, rearrange a lift, get 3 points put on a friends license and check in with 15 minutes to spare.

Doesn't sound much worse?

I was flying out to my own wedding.
(FartThroughAWalkieTalkie wished you were dead in ditch on, Thu 9 Feb 2012, 18:24, closed)

Its a fact;
Weddings ruin more marriages than anything else.
(the other guy not the one that gave you coochie warts, Thu 9 Feb 2012, 18:47, closed)

same as wedding cake is the most fattening food in the world
( enoughblueskyforsailorstrousers, Fri 10 Feb 2012, 6:20, closed)

I've done this sort of thing....
Booked my best mate and me onto a flight to denmark for some stag weekend debauchery...

Booked it to fly out at 5am....we turned up for the 5pm flight!

so we got booked onto the next days 5am flight and had to spend the night in the airport drinking grolsch and eating airport food!
(Lip Up Fatty Fatty Reggae still loves BBQ food on, Fri 10 Feb 2012, 9:27, closed)

It was suggested that I do the same,
but my entry visa would have expired at midnight so Australian customs would not have let me in, and insisted I fuck off back to the UK.

When I went through at Sydney with about an hour to spare the official said 'Cutting it a bit fine aren't you?' to which I replied 'you have no idea.'
(FartThroughAWalkieTalkie wished you were dead in ditch on, Fri 10 Feb 2012, 10:43, closed)