Weary traveller or just silly mistakes

[ckck]

Many years ago...

I had just arrived in BNE went to info counter to figure out how to get to Central. What do I ask the guy behind the counter?

me: Excuse me how do I get to Melbourne Central?
info guy: You're in Brisbane.
me: cough umm, ok Brisbane Central will do.
info guy: How much do you need to fly around to not know where you are?
me: Don't ask.
info guy: didn't I see you running through this terminal about two days ago?
me: yeah probably.. I transitted here about two days ago.
<silence>
me: so how do I get to Melbourne Central?
info guy: You are either going to have to get back on a plane and go to Melbourne or here is a timetable for our train system in Brisbane.

 

[Major]

I was in SIN yesterday and decided to have a feed near Clarke Quay. Normally I would pay with a CC but the meal was so cheap I paid with cash. Get back to the IC and no CC.
Bugger...it must have caught up with the notes. I still don't know where it is. Restaurant / MRT / Taxi.
Now cancelled...PITA

 

[Hvr]

Am currently in BKK and when I checked out of the Conrad after my first stay I was standing in the taxi line and realised I had left my passport in the safe. Went back to the desk and was escorted back to the room to collect it from locked safe.

As we get back to the front desk a phone call was made to the lady who took me upstairs to advise that I has also left a shirt in the room. She went up and got it for me. D'oh, but as is the way of the Conrad no problems at all.

These little things are just part of the master plan to make sure we remember we're human.

 

[Blinky]

Many years ago...

I had just arrived in BNE went to info counter to figure out how to get to Central. What do I ask the guy behind the counter?

me: Excuse me how do I get to Melbourne Central?
info guy: You're in Brisbane.
me: cough umm, ok Brisbane Central will do.
info guy: How much do you need to fly around to not know where you are?
me: Don't ask.
info guy: didn't I see you running through this terminal about two days ago?
me: yeah probably.. I transitted here about two days ago.
<silence>
me: so how do I get to Melbourne Central?
info guy: You are either going to have to get back on a plane and go to Melbourne or here is a timetable for our train system in Brisbane.

I couldn't count the number of times I've gone to the counter and said "6.30 to Brisbane (or wherever)" only to get back the response "you are in Brisbane".

 

[TonyHancock]

Twice this year I have left my iPad on a plane. I have lost multiple chargers and cables, as well as shirts, trousers, socks and underwear. It is an occupation hazard. :-|

 

[Blinky]

Twice this year I have left my iPad on a plane. I have lost multiple chargers and cables, as well as shirts, trousers, socks and underwear. It is an occupation hazard. :-|

I left a camera on a plane full of photos of our European holiday. I lost one earlier on the trip in a taxi in Paris, but had downloaded the photos, so it didn't worry me greatly. Thinking "lightning doesn't strike twice" I didn't bother downloading the photos in the second camera. I was sooooo embarrassed that I only put in an insurance claim for the first camera.

 

[kelvedon]

Not that I'm immune myself, but my much travelled Fathers actions are more amusing. Like the time he arrives at LHR for a flight, only to discover it was departing from LGW, and the trip he made from the UK to France to be greeted by a quizzical immigration officer at Marseilles who pointed out a very chronologially optimistic photo in his passport. He had taken mine by mistake. All concerns were dismissed by a Gallic shrug " Les Anglais"! Oh for the days before Osama messed it up !

 

[sergeyvzn]

I left a camera on a plane full of photos of our European holiday. I lost one earlier on the trip in a taxi in Paris, but had downloaded the photos, so it didn't worry me greatly. Thinking "lightning doesn't strike twice" I didn't bother downloading the photos in the second camera. I was sooooo embarrassed that I only put in an insurance claim for the first camera.

ALWAYS back up photos! Learned the hard way after dropping mine into the swimming pool of our hotel in Vanuatu - it was a romantic candle lit dinner right by the pool edge

 

[drron]

I'm too embarrassed to say how many "senior"moments i have had.

 

[Blinky]

ALWAYS back up photos! Learned the hard way after dropping mine into the swimming pool of our hotel in Vanuatu - it was a romantic candle lit dinner right by the pool edge

Yup, a lesson hard earned. I'll dropboxing all my stuff next time.

 

[Katie]

Twice this year I have left my iPad on a plane. I have lost multiple chargers and cables, as well as shirts, trousers, socks and underwear. It is an occupation hazard. :-|

Tony, I am ow imagining your occupation is more along the "Magic Mike" lines than being a comedian.

 

[kpc]

ALWAYS back up photos!

...every nite! As I have learnt the hard way, the day you don't, is the day your memory card becomes corrupted! This software saved the day:
Memory Card Recovery Software to Recover Lost Photos - CardRecovery

 

[jetlagger]

Oh yes... I have those fleeting blonde, lagging moments.
Last Friday evening, had a transit through SIN with a long day behind me, & a few lounge samplings.. Went to gate.. Pocket check... no BP!
Oh.. It's always.. um.. ah.. Certainly the gate staff started to lecture in an authoritative tone of voice.. 'That it may be an issue".. Oh yes, 'but a small one at that", I politely exclaimed
As, I rattled through & proceeded to present my previous BP.. Suddenly it became.. 'Oh it's fine" - with a smile! The hand written gate substitute worked a treat
Kudos to the SQ efficient quick recovery response team..
Suffice to say, It seems to be becoming more common.. Additionally on another venture last month, post flight - the FA came running down the aerobridge with my prized SLR camera in tow, somehow shortly separated from me.
I must refrain from venturing too close to the premiums in the lounges.. :mrgreen:

 

[ozmille]

Shirt in the Pullman in BKK, on the same trip the CSM asked weren't you on my flight up here 2 days ago? Might explain the shirt.
Asking lounge staff when a certain flight is leaving that doesn't leave from that port.
Passport in safe a couple of times around the world and once on an intercity bus in Mexico. Didn't notice till the day I went home and they still had it in the bus terminal...
Wedding band in Adelaide Novotel, would have been a bad day if it hadn't turned up at reception.
And many many more

 

[MatF]

Wedding band in Adelaide Novotel, would have been a bad day if it hadn't turned up at reception.
And many many more

That's reminded me! I left my wedding ring next to the sink in the bathroom at the SYD HI, only about a month after we were married. I'm forever grateful that the cleaner found it, and they mailed it back to me

 

[jetlagger]

That's reminded me! I left my wedding ring next to the sink in the bathroom at the SYD HI, only about a month after we were married. I'm forever grateful that the cleaner found it, and they mailed it back to me

Well done..
Unlike Ms Bingle (before proposed marriage) episode.. Think it involved a toilet & a plumber - from my jaded memory..:shock:

 

[MatF]

Heh, yes, indeed. . I wasn't used to wearing it, and always felt like it was going to fall off when I was washing my hands - hence next to the sink.

So glad when it turned up.

 

[JohnK]

Too many times to be able to remember all but thankfully nothing significant so far....

 

[Geegeela]

I don’t suppose this could happen now ..................although who knows.

Some years past it seemed I was at the old Adelaide (ADL) terminal almost every day of the week.

Either as a passenger or meeting or farewelling family and colleagues.

I always had a ticket in my shirt pocket which was usually one for the future or had an unused return flight or one for a past flight that I had not removed.

In those days the seat allocation was a small coloured sticker place on the outer cover of the ticket at check-in.

On one occasion I had taken a good work mate to the airport and continued a most intense conversation into the gate boarding queue.

On reaching the gate, like an automaton, I pulled a ticket from my shirt pocket and after flashing it at the attendant with a nod breezed through with my colleague without taking a pause in our talk.

Still carrying on our exchange in “our” seats it was not until, on hearing the PA announcement of the flight number and destination, I was shaken back into reality that I was not going anywhere that day.

I just made the door as they were about to pull the stairs away.

Ah, those were the days. I would probable end-up in custody if I pulled that stunt today.

 

[parsonstrish]

Many thanks to all who shared of their trip mishaps to my initial post. I'm sitting in the chicago flounge and have been laughing and giggling out loud (don't think it's the wine I've had). Very funny stories.

Don't know if my latest mishap for this trip is silly or just plain stupid. Seeing friends trip reports on f/book with pictures, I thought why not me for this current trip. Why not me, I ask myself now. Anything with technology my standard statements abound with just tell me the steps while I write them down. So I buy myself a new mobile that seems to do anything, even whistles at me, well that's what I thought first time it happened. Only had a week prior to purchase and trip, not enough step lessons it seems in hindsight.

So in Philly I take some pictures of trees in foilage and work out from my written steps how to download. Clever girl, I think, as they appear.

I took out a data plan with Telstra prior to trip thinking boy this is clever. I didn't get another sim for travel as the brighter part of brain told me and stayed with int'l roaming.

When I arrived in States, no int'l roaming, so I go on-line and have some chats with different folk in the Philipines. As I continue to check my usage and cost, I see I've been charged for these friendly chats and downloading the few little pics has now taken me upto over $900 in charges. I have no idea what my plan I took out covered but finally found someone who told me how to turn off the data and just use wifi and I'm hoping that means I can now use my phone as camera and no charge, if I don't download.

I may be aging but not stupid so no more downloads.