yonmei

10:41 pm: Ugh.
I finally made the changes I'd promised Ajay I would make to our Easyjet booking, er, three weeks ago.

(Summary: we meant to fly out on Wednesday and fly back the following Friday: because neither Ajay or I can do these things calmly, we were having an impassioned argument about Friday, and it was late and I was tired and I managed to book us correctly for our flight back and yet book us incorrectly for Tuesday for our flight out. Easyjet, being pigs with wings, declined to change this until I paid them £17.50 per seat, and in the meantime I'd agreed with Ajay that since I had to change it, I might as well change it to us flying out Thursday: Ajay is somewhat broke for some time owing to a broken central heating system, and I am somewhat better off than usual owing to being paid for 35 hours a week instead of 17.5, and it was my fault anyway, so I'd said immediately I would bear the costs of the change.)

Anyway. When I first looked it up, the cost of flying out on Thursday instead of Tuesday or Wednesday was only £2 more. And I should of course have rebooked the seats there and then. But somehow I couldn't bring myself to: I was so angry with Easyjet. Really, really angry. I didn't want to have to fly out Tuesday: yet I didn't want to give them the money. I'd looked up various alternatives, but they all cost more - considerably more.

Anyway. Finally, my wages for January (full time! yay!) arrived in my bank account, and even though I had to pay for roof repair this month, I still had a moderately healthy balance instead of a sucky overdraft. I hate feeling broke at the start of the month, and this had been how I'd been feeling for six months or so. And I'd finally run out of sane excuses for not paying Easyjet, and was left with the I-am-too-angry-to-speak-to-you-let-alone-give-you-money excuse, which even I know is not a good one. (It has lots of emotional impact, especially when I froth at the mouth and bang the table and call Easyjet nasty names, but it's not a good excuse to give to Ajay when she asks me "when do I have to book my holidays again?" and I have to say "From Tuesday, because that's when the flights are booked for".)

So I got my bank card out, to give me no excuses, and I opened up the Easyjet website, and I logged in to make the change... and discovered that while I'd been raging silently at Easyjet, Easyjet had taken the far more effective revenge of... raising Thursday's seat prices £17.

*facepalm*

And yes, I still had to pay the change costs of £17.50 per seat on top of that. Plus £1.50 fee for using my card on their site. Total: £68.50. I have made more expensive mistakes in my life, but right now I can't remember any quite so irritating.


Tags: buying things i don't need, easyjet are flying pigs, gah, howls of rage, travel, venting