Sunday, February 06, 2011

A Day In The Life - 02/06/2011: An Extraordinary Error

It is Sunday morning. We are getting ready to leave on our return trip to the Valley of the Sun and warmth and aridness, which I love even more after the chilly weather of Texas. Gaye and I go down tot he lobby to print off our boarding passes. We put in our names and confirmation number and the computer spits an error message back at us. Gaye says that it happens some times. So we just put in our names. Same thing. Soon we begin to pay attention to what the error message is telling us - something about needing to be within 12 hours of takeoff without being too close. We are 4 hours away. So we bring up the actual reservations. We begin to look more closely at the dates, and as you can see, we are not scheduled to return for another month! Gaye's first thoughts are about not having sub plans for that long. Myself, I have no issues at all since I have my work computer and can, and have been, connecting to work already. The rental car and the hotel would be a bit bit pricey, however. Gaye quickly gets on-line and changes our reservations (for a measly $400 extra) and suddenly the computer is giving us no problems at all printing our reservations. Ah, the simplicity of life - until you do it wrong.

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