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Monday
April 9, 2018
Happy Birthday Patsy.
This day is certainly one for the books… good and
bad…
First we found out that the coroners and RCMP made
a horrendous error and confused 2 of the hockey players in the Humboldt Broncos
crash. They first said that our cousin
Xavier LaBelle was dead and we reported this to all our relatives. Today we heard that they had confused 2 of
the bodies and that Xavier had actually survived, and a player from Stony
Plain, Alberta was the deceased. What an
emotional roller-coaster it must be for these two families in particular.
Because Cristina’s 50th birthday is May
7th, I decided to glance at flight costs. When I saw reasonable flights totaling $259
on Orbitz again (via Kayak, which allows the senior discount…) I decided to run
to the TAME airport office to see if I can get them to apply the $117 credit
they were supposedly holding. After more
than ½ hour there they said the best they could do with the credit was $269… Go figure…. He suggested I go to their main office near
Millenium Mall, so off I went. After
another ½ hour I got essentially the same story and shrugs… Nobody has any power to override anything to
provide sensible customer service. This
time they said that the $117 credit is sitting with Orbitz, not them, so the
story changed again.
Once back at home I called Orbitz, explained the
frustration, the new flights I want to take, and the credit that needs to be
applied. After a loooooong wait, a gal named
Geetha actually saved me another $10 and the flights cost me only $131.35!! Then my US Visa was refused and I managed to
get it booked with my VISA Debit card…
Trying to get a written confirmation was like pulling teeth, but Geetha finally provided me with a confirmation email. So I leave May 4 and return May 11.
Now, while I was at the airport I got a call from
my local Banco Del Austro saying there was a problem with my debit card with
them, so I stopped in on my way home.
The gist is that I am without their Debit Card which I use for
groceries, etc for another 8 days while they reissue me under another number….
So now I had to call Visa Credit Card services to
find out why their USD card is fouling up….ugh…. Tessa
says their automated system blocked me again…
ugh… And there is no way to block
their security system… They say that we
don’t have to let them know that we are traveling, then they pull this
horseshit on me… ugh….
I hope you enjoy the pictures. That was the day’s excitement.
Al
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