Nearly headed home ...

Another quick posting. Nearly headed home early after reading the fine print on my car booking info. Said I needed to provide a boarding pass from a Ryanair flight that has taken place one hour within my car pick up time. What the F*ck! Nothing like that was in anything I read before booking and paying.

Anyhoo, after hitting six or seven public phone booths, only to be driven out by the stink of f*cking males using them as private urinals, I held my breath (and made no physical contact with any surfaces) and called the car hire company.

Got through to one chickababe who said that unless I produced a Ryanair boarding pass, my contract would either be void (without refund) or I would have to pay current rates!!! Ey curumba! That wasn't going to happen. My only choice would be to go home early with my tail between my legs.

So, I'm on hold while she "talks to the Gatwick office" where I am picking up the car, and after a while some other chickababe comes online. I explain the situation again to her as she has no idea about the previous convo, and she says there is no problem and doesn't know what the f*ck I am talking about. I am actually talking to the Gatwick office evidently and they have NEVER asked for a boarding pass.

I think the initial chickababe gets her jollies for working on a beautiful Saturday afternoon by scaring the bejesus out of gullible customers like me. Honestly, I was already considering what I was going to do and thinking about getting the hell out of Dodge as I couldn't afford to stay here and get around otherwise.

Bottom line is that I didn't know I could hold my breath that long and still conduct a conversation. People on the street must have thought I was a weirdo when I finally emerged from the phone booth as I took huge gasps of air inbetween 'ackkkking' and 'ergggghhhhing' in order to get the embedded smell of urine from my throat and nasal passages.

And, visiting any city one year before they hold the Olympics is a bad idea. A lot of things are in a state of chaos or actually closed while they get things ready for next year. A much better plan would be to come the year AFTER the games when everything is stupendous.