Thread: Daily or weekly cheer

There's a lot of negativity around and its easier to moan (British trait perhaps) than find reasons to be cheerful.

We've probably had a thread on it before but this ones for posters to raise a glass to things that went well for a change.

To kick off:

Bought tickets on Thai air months ago from a ticketing site in cattle class, yeah i know cheap bastard. Anyway the default baggage allowance is always 30kgs or so i thought. Looked at the e-ticket and it said 20kgs which i ignored as i thought it was just an error on their part.

I packed two bags, one at 20kgs and the other i thought must be around 10kgs and was in a rush so didn't check, it was 3.30am.

Got to the check-in and put the bags on the belt. The nice lady said you do know you are over your allowance at 36kgs to which i apologised and said i can take some books out and put them in my hand luggage.

She of course said my allowance was 20kgs, at which point i was trying to work out the ramifications of leaving one bag behind and whether i'd have no under cackers and other clothes, pizza makings for me Otto and my Mrs xmas presents et al.

Anyway the lady kept processing and put on updatrd tags as i'd screwed up putting them on.

She finally turned to me and said i've let you off over £1,500 of excess baggage charges and laughed at the staggered look on my face. I thanked her and wished her a merry xmas.

So xmas was saved by the usually surly check in lady. I will remember her and i've seen her before as i always check in at the same zone so its a big box of Thortons Choccies next time for her.