Life's Small Wins

[duncs500]

I inevitably killed it within 2 years through watching serious amounts of grot

EFA

[JLv3.0]

Ok so this counts although not exactly a good deed rude fucking arsehole third worlder taxi driver kept beeping at me to make a u-turn at the lights, but I wasn't dawdling and couldn't go any faster. So I decided to go a lot slower, just edge over the line on yellow so he had to wait another cycle, and called him a cunt as I made the u-turn. Fuck him

[Nefarious]

Not a bad outcome from a dispute with Easyjet today.

Last week I showed up to the airport for a flight to London, only to find it'd been cancelled. As I was cutting it fine and only traveling with hand luggage, I was inevitably at the back of a very very long queue to get transferred to another flight. After chatting with the rep, I knew that the queue would take approx 3-4 hours, and at the end they'd only be able to put me on a 9.30 flight to Stanstead (instead of a 1pm flight to Gatwick), so I bailed, took the electronic refund and eventually found a FlyBe flight to run me down to London City in a little puddle-jumper for £95. Best thing was that it was only 45 mins after my original flight, so I could ultimately make all me onward connections. So basically I took a hit of £55, and all was right with the world again.

Once back home, I went on a little fishing expedition with EasyJet. I didn't expect much, as they HAD offered an alternative flight, and I'd voluntarily accepted the refund, but. hey, nothing to lose, and TBH I felt they deserved a bit of grief.

So now, not only have I had my refund, but I've also claimed back the £95 for the FlyBe flight in expenses, and also had £225 out of them in compensation for the inconvenience. Fair result in my book

[JLv3.0]

Easyjet are essentially a decent, honest company, aren't they?

[Simon]

You mean 'not Ryanair'?

Yes

[JLv3.0]

That's exactly what I meant, to be honest.

Pun not intentional

[Nefarious]

Easyjet are essentially a decent, honest company, aren't they?

Well, largely yes (especially in the light of how the whole incident worked out), but the staff at the airport had taken the attitude of "we cancelled your flight, now you have to stand in a queue for 3-4 hours, miss the event you were going to London for, spend another 3 hours at the airport, fly to an airport you don't want to go to, and that's our responsibility discharged".

[Orange Cola]

Not a win for me but for the parents.

They hired a holiday cottage for ten days and paid £1200+ for the privilege, its mums birthday holiday away so they wanted something a bit nicer than the usual stuff they'd go for. They turned up at the cottage, found it was inhabitable and borderline falling down, the owner refused to give a refund saying he couldnt see what the issue was (utter cunt chancing my parents would leave the cottage and not bother to chase him for the money) and the booking agents were somehow less than useless. After getting trading standards involved they got moved to another property which was far nicer than their original choice, plus they got a refund of the difference as the new place is cheaper. In the hassle of moving mum left her brand new kindle at the original place, that's turned up today (showing the owner of the first cottage never bothers to go in the or he'd have had the kindle)

That's all added up and paid for the nicest meal out we've ever had about five doors down from the new place.