Tiamat10

I knew it was too simple. Much, much too simple. You see, today I talked to my dad and found out that I have a place to stay when I get back to the states. Not only that, but he had promised to send me a little bit of cash as a birthday present (back in June) but thus far hasn't been able to--so he offered to instead help me out with paying for the flight.

How cool is that? (When you're as poor as I am, that is very, very cool.)

Armed with this great news, I started searching for flights today. If I fly straight out from Norway it'll be crazy expensive because Norwegian tax rates are bloody insane. But after talking to the boyfriend's sister-in-law who happens to be a travel agent, I found out that if I fly out of London it'll be much cheaper.

Pure awesomeness.

So I searched (and searched and searched and searched) and after about two hours of searching--minus the thirty minute break for my laptop's fried processor to cool off--I found a wonderful deal. I can get back to the states for about $700. And not only that, but the flight times couldn't be more perfect. For each time I have to switch planes, I have plenty of time to get through customs but the longest layover anywhere is three hours.

You know the worst part though? After all this I couldn't help but think to myself, Something's gotta go wrong. It just has to.

Well, it did. I can't fucking find my passport. I've searched every single place I can conceivably see myself putting the damn thing, but after three hours, all I've got to show for it is dust-covered fingers.

Of course, knowing myself as well as I do, I'm sure I've put it some place really stupid, having thought at the time that there would be no way I could possibly lose it.

*sigh*

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Sam Winchester

Seven-hundred dollars for a flight from Norway to America? What are you - flying first class or something! Surely there's a cheaper flight than that somewhere?

That sucks about your passport. How long 'til your flight leaves? Maybe your boyfriend hid it on you because he doesn't want you to leave?

I hope you find it.

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Tiamat10

Are you kidding? Any other time of the year I'd have to pay twice that. No, I'm quite happy to get away with being under $1k.

And the thing about my passport, it's funny you mention that because the last time I remember seeing it, I'd given it to him to hold while we were on our way to Denmark (last summer). He says he gave it back but I don't remember. (However, since I know where his is and mine's not with it, odds are he probably did give it back).

But no, he wouldn't hide it from me. As much as I wanna project my frustration onto anything living, it's more than likely my fault the thing's lost.

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Sam Winchester

I can go from Dublin airport to Spain on a return ticket and it only costs me between two-hundred and fifty and three-hundred euros. Of course, it's longer from Norway to America. I know I went to a Manchester United football game in England last year and it only cost one frigging pound sterling! I don't fly all that often, so seven-hundred seemed a lot to me.

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The Backward OX

How long do you have? Can you go to the embassy, get another passport? Might be easiest. Must happen all the time. "The dog ate it" kind of thing.

Are you a Gemini by any chance?

The Backward OX

I'm no expert on international flights, but thought when you were booked through to somewhere else you didn't need to go through Customs at breaks between flights. I thought there were international lounges where you were treated as if you were still on a plane? No?

AA

$700 sounds about right to me for a flight that long.

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JosephB

Bummer Tiamat. Sorry.

It's more about demand or the popularty of a given destination.

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Malone

First class to Norway would probably cost around $5000.

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Hawke

Do what I do, T. Look in the last place you'd look, and work your way up from there. Or look in all the weird places. I hide things in "safe places" all the time and then forget where they are. Like in books and such.

I swear, if I ever get Alzheimer's, no one would notice.

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Foxee

Oh geez, Tiamat, I hide things from myself like that, too. There is a knell of doom about the words, "I'll put this where I know I can't lose it."

Sure hope you can find it quickly.

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Tiamat10

So true, Foxee. I keep thinking about this episode of that old cartoon Two Stupid Dogs where the little dog finds a bone and puts it on top of his head so that he never loses it. Naturally, he spends the rest of the episode looking for his lost bone and doesn't find it again until he panics and runs into a wall or something and the bone falls off his head.

I thought of that about an hour ago and promptly checked under the washing machine. It wasn't there but I have this nagging feeling that says I tucked it underneath a book cover. (I even suspect that the book in question is either Harry Potter 7 or Marley & Me.) Unfortunately, I have to wait for the boyfriend to wake up before I can go check.

[EDIT] Alas, I was wrong again...

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Tiamat10

Ha! Found it! It was in a duffel bag we borrowed from the boyfriend's sister about a year ago (which was hiding under our Christmas tree in the storage closet).

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Sam Winchester

Good stuff, S. I'm glad it worked out.

By the way, your title inspired me to begin another short story which is based in Ireland. I've called it "Murphy's Law," a title which will become apparent when I post it! What do they call it - double meaning?

So thanks!

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Brightside

Just have to say, i glad you found the passport - was gutted at the top of the page, but much happier now!!!!

Phew... Real life can always pick out awesome stories!!


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