"A just-married couple arrives at the airport for their honeymoon...."
....in the Bahamas (Atlantis) only to discover, at the kiosk, that the wife's passport expired a year prior.
Stop me if you've heard this one before. That was me and my new wife (married last Saturday) this past Monday evening.
Anyway life handed us lemons, so we made Sin City. Sitting by the pool at the Bellagio right now sipping a vodka/pineapple. Life is Good. But for a second it wasn't.
This post ain't really about shit. Just figured folks might get a laugh out of her/our stupidity.
1. "well congrats and i'm glad you were able to make the best of it." In response to Reply # 0
also, imagine if it was YOUR passport that was expired. Fam, life is good lol.
I hope you ain't lose too much cake.
-The Knicks’ coaching search still includes a lone frontrunner, Kurt Rambis, whose qualifications for the position include a strong relationship with Jackson and a willingness to take the job.
2. "Haha - right ! Thanks playa" In response to Reply # 1 Fri Oct-23-15 04:30 PM by Brew
>also, imagine if it was YOUR passport that was expired. Fam, >life is good lol.
^^^^^^had this on my mind early on. Like, damn, thank god it was hers. LOL
>I hope you ain't lose too much cake.
Yea we are extremely fortunate to be in a position to just plan B it from the airport. Unless we were dead broke there was no way I was going back to our condo at that point, LOL. Would've been so deflating.
All things considered we made out pretty well. The airline was super sympathetic and allowed us to change flights without paying a fee (wife was bawling in her "bride" sweatshirt which helped haha) and the attendant found an equal priced flight so we broke even there. The Atlantis hotel refunded about half of the week and we had to pay the hotel in Vegas so that's where we lost out a bit, but that's it. We are very lucky.
Moments like these make you realize the good in people. While I was taking some time outside to get some air and not murder my bride, a random unsung woman inside was consoling the wife. Literally hugged it out with her for like 2 minutes, and offered up her house on Nantucket for the week ! "I know it's cold but it's really nice there. I will be gone all week". I mean, really? Nicest woman ever. Then the two airline receptionists who couldn't have been more accommodating and encouraging that I previously mentioned helped us big time on getting a new flight in the U.S. for free. Karen and Angel. I'll never forget those names. I will be getting in touch with their boss to talk them into a raise when I get back home. Lastly an airport employee, a nice Jamaican woman who saw the initial reaction at the kiosk and said "its OK honey. It's in God's hands now. Everything happens for a reason" in her adorable accent...really soothing in the moment. Not a cloud in the sky all week in Vegas and it's been raining on and off in Atlantis all week. So maybe she was right.
Its good to hear stories like this sometimes _____________________________________________________ miserable niggas yo cant let nobody have nothing "god save the queen pip pip cheerio tea time princess di" ass niggas (c)white desus
-The Knicks’ coaching search still includes a lone frontrunner, Kurt Rambis, whose qualifications for the position include a strong relationship with Jackson and a willingness to take the job.
6. "I had a similar situation. only it was my passport that was in the ex's ..." In response to Reply # 0
house/possession.
and I had had the ex's passport in my possession.
I had to make a phone call to an ex to ask for my passport (and to return hers).
I made that call three hours before the plane was scheduled take off.
I was going on vacation with the new lady.
I ended up making the call at around 1045pm (getting fairly chewed out, but it's a miracle she answered) swapping passports and rushing to the airport.
20. "Hahaha trust me that came to mind near-immediately" In response to Reply # 7
>Way to maneuver through a tough situation...just old that >Wild card in case there's an argument in the future. > >Be like...you wouldn't be in the damn country if it wasn't for >me! > >(use only once)
Like, there's no level of fuck up that should allow her to be pissed at me short of cheating or hitting her or something, considering how calm I stayed in that moment. And we ended up in fucking Vegas so it ain't like we *really* lost out
8. "RE: A just-married couple arrives at the airport for their honeymoon...." In response to Reply # 0 Fri Oct-23-15 05:57 PM by double 0
couldn't push flights a day and just get the passport on Tuesday?
I just got mine and were in line with ppl (8am) whose international flights were at like 6pm that day..
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21. "We called the passport office..." In response to Reply # 8
>couldn't push flights a day and just get the passport on >Tuesday? > >I just got mine and were in line with ppl (8am) whose >international flights were at like 6pm that day..
...and gave them the sob story, and they said the earliest they could do was Wednesday. Wife has trouble getting time off work so that really wasn't an option unless we wanted to cut our honeymoon short by basically 3 days which we were not willing to do. Probably could've made a couple more calls to get it expedited further (a good friend of mine works at the State House in Boston and knows some people) but at that point it was such a mad scramble we were already on to plan B considerations.
10. "We went to Tobago a few weeks ago for our 15th" In response to Reply # 0
the day of the trip I realized I didnt know where my passport was and wasnt where I thought it would be. It was a stressful 15 minutes while I ransacked the house
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12. "RE: i'm more fascinated by the vacationing habits of cold weather ppl" In response to Reply # 11
Huh?
**************** TBH the fact that you're even a mod here fits squarely within Jag's narrative of OK-sanctioned aggression, bullying, and toxicity. *shrug*
16. "Lol we take most of our vaca s in winter bc of this" In response to Reply # 11
Why am I leaving ny in august? It's 90 degrees and we have beaches lol
-The Knicks’ coaching search still includes a lone frontrunner, Kurt Rambis, whose qualifications for the position include a strong relationship with Jackson and a willingness to take the job.
23. "I don't know what's so perplexing about it. " In response to Reply # 11
>like, the weather is THAT deadly where you live you need an >escape to the Bahamas or whatever
Yes. Yes. A million times yes. You see how much fucking snow the northeast got last year?!? If I didn't have my whole family here and wasn't so established in my career here I'd have moved to San Diego years ago and never looked back. I still think I will Someday.
>i'll never fully understand but its mad interesting. > > > >like watching animals from different habitats on NatGeo
LOL yea I suppose. Humans were not built to live like we do in the northeast for 8 months out of the year. I hesitate to even call it "living". It's just fucking survival. The most primitive existence.
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