Now, in case you didn’t know, I’m a horrible planner. If I planned the Olympics it would be a running race in my backyard with CD’s as medals. So, last year when I planned my epic trip to Europe, I made a slight error. Ok, I rescind that, it was a major error.
See, in my infinite wisdom I booked my flights at the wrong times, and the 2 flights I had to take to get back to Australia were going to be in the air at the same time. Unfortunately, as incredibly skilled as I am, I cannot be on two planes at once. I assume I could cut myself in half and do this, but even in that case half of me would be stuck in Kuala Lumpur… and who the hell wants to be there?
Either way, that’s not the point; the point is that nothing ever goes wrong for me. I was looking at paying an extra couple hundred bucks for a flight change, which was going to irritate me greatly. Time passed, I didn’t book the extra flight, and time was running out. Today however, I received an email from AirAsia. They decided they should restructure all of their flights coming out of London because, well, they love me? Since this might ‘inconvenience’ some people, they decided I should be able to change my flight to one of my choosing, for free.
When I originally booked these flights, the flights around this date were more expensive. This means that my error wasn’t just rectifiable for free…. it actually saved me money. Also, I’d been meaning to change these flights for weeks, and kept putting it off. So you know what that means? Human Error + Procrastination = Profit. Hope that little lesson will help you all out with your lives :D.
Hope you enjoyed my random thoughts.
Mitchell Durward.
3 responses to “Random thought of the day: Nothing ever goes wrong for me.”
Carrie-Anne
June 4th, 2010 at 01:23
This is hilarious and I am not surprised that it happened to you of all people!
I was watching Wizards of Waverley place the other day (I promise this is relevant), because I love that show and I think Selena Gomez is hilarious in it and she said the best line ever. Let me set it up, basically her parents weren’t letting her go on this cruise because she had shitty grades and she had to go to summer school. Anyway it turns out that there was a school on the ship and she managed to convince her parents to let her go and she wizarded over her luggage and everyone was like “you already packed? How did you even know you end up staying” and her response was “I find that if I just act like things are going to work out the way I want…they usually just do”. I loved it because my aim in life is to be like that, and I kinda think that in a way you already do act like that. So that’s why I am not surprised that your flights just sorted themselves out 🙂
tehmisogynist
June 4th, 2010 at 09:21
Wow, that actually sounds exactly like something I would say. I’ve never actually watched that show, maybe I should.
And if your aim in life is to be like that, why don’t you just do it? Works pretty well for me :).
Carrie-Anne
June 9th, 2010 at 23:15
Yeah good point. Perhaps I am too scared that things actually won’t work out? Eh! I’ll get there. I should start with my shitty job.
Wizards of Waverley Place is awesome…if you like kids shows…which I do…