Originally Posted by Jimmy Stang
WRGMG is my sister-in-law's bad run of luck. She has spend the past few months picking up the pieces after her husband decided that some skank was more important than seven years of marriage. So her and a good girl friend of her's decided that they'd go to Cuba for a week to kick off the new year, have a fresh start, etc.
On Friday night her dog chews her passport (it was left out after checking in) and damages it slightly, but I know that even a little damage could mean trouble. Passport office is closed anyway. So she shows up at the airport the next morning to give it a try, and they won't let her on. Her friend left anyway, hoping that they'd be able to meet up in a couple of days. So we spent Saturday trying unsuccessfully to get a new passport, but the passport offices are closed and even the emergency number says to call back during business hours on Monday. We tried the Harry Hays anyway, hoping for any sort of break - no luck.
Then we had a little fender bender right after, although there was no damage to my car, and it wasn't my fault. But why someone would think that a blind, erratic, quadruple lane change on a one-way was a good idea is beyond me.
So she got new passport photos, did the application, and was waiting at the Harry Hays at opening yesterday. Full credit to Passport Canada, they got her a new passport within about 5 hours, albeit at twice the price, but things were starting to look up. And then the death blow - her red eye flight to Toronto this morning was cancelled because of the weather problems there, so she won't make the connection to Cuba. She was hoping to salvage 4/7 days of the trip, but now it doesn't look like she'll get there at all.
Sorry for the novel, but can't this girl catch a break? In the big picture, a missed vacation and losing some money is frustrating but relatively trivial, but she needed this so much and was so looking forward to it. Perhaps there was cancellation insurance (the friend, currently in Cuba, booked it) - I don't know. But what a gong show.
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