Unholy Rage (or, how my computer ended up shattered on the sidewalk)
Everything is conspiring to piss me off today.
I'm going to my 5 year college reunion in October, which I have been excited about for at least 6 months because all my college friends are going and also I went to school in Iowa, where you can get yourself and 5 friends drunk for $20.
So yesterday I decided to go ahead and book the hotel, even though it's over two months away, only to find that there are no more hotels in the right town. Fine, it's a small town, whatever. We'll stay at the next nearest town, 45 minutes away, and make it work somehow. I checked on the prices at the hotel there - $89/night, sweet - and called my friend I'm rooming with to make sure that was ok. I then checked the flight prices and times. I found reasonable flights, at decent times of day, for $275. Fabulous.
But today, oh, foul, unholy day, EVERYTHING is f*d up for NO REASON! The hotel which is absolutely literally in the middle of nowhere shot up by $30/night overnight! And the flights, if they exist at all anymore, appear to have gone up over $100. I question their very existence because I can't seem to book a flight at all, even at the extremely disgusting new prices. I tried through Travelocity, Expedia, Travelocity with a different web browser, and the United site itself, all several times, and nothing works. I can't call anywhere to try to do it over the phone, because I'm full of such bilious rage that I know I won't be able to handle the horrors of being on hold and having some incompetent idiot try to send me to Idaho instead of Iowa.
Plus my computer is being a worthless piece of shit. Everything, every single thing, is taking it FOREVER to do. I click between windows and it's like: "Hmm... I see that she's clicked on something... I wonder why... Could she want to switch to that? Hmm... Well I suppose she could... but let's wait and see, just to be sure... Better safe than sorry... That's what I always say... Oh well, she's clicked again... Fifteen times... I suppose we could switch... But not just now... I'm on my break... Maybe I'll just suddenly go into Hibernate mode instead for a few minutes..."
[screen goes blank]
[angry girl screams in frustration, hurls computer out window]
[computer shatters satisfyingly on pavement]
[screen flickers, just one last time - "Press OK to confirm booking"]
[all goes dark]
Fin.
I'm going to my 5 year college reunion in October, which I have been excited about for at least 6 months because all my college friends are going and also I went to school in Iowa, where you can get yourself and 5 friends drunk for $20.
So yesterday I decided to go ahead and book the hotel, even though it's over two months away, only to find that there are no more hotels in the right town. Fine, it's a small town, whatever. We'll stay at the next nearest town, 45 minutes away, and make it work somehow. I checked on the prices at the hotel there - $89/night, sweet - and called my friend I'm rooming with to make sure that was ok. I then checked the flight prices and times. I found reasonable flights, at decent times of day, for $275. Fabulous.
But today, oh, foul, unholy day, EVERYTHING is f*d up for NO REASON! The hotel which is absolutely literally in the middle of nowhere shot up by $30/night overnight! And the flights, if they exist at all anymore, appear to have gone up over $100. I question their very existence because I can't seem to book a flight at all, even at the extremely disgusting new prices. I tried through Travelocity, Expedia, Travelocity with a different web browser, and the United site itself, all several times, and nothing works. I can't call anywhere to try to do it over the phone, because I'm full of such bilious rage that I know I won't be able to handle the horrors of being on hold and having some incompetent idiot try to send me to Idaho instead of Iowa.
Plus my computer is being a worthless piece of shit. Everything, every single thing, is taking it FOREVER to do. I click between windows and it's like: "Hmm... I see that she's clicked on something... I wonder why... Could she want to switch to that? Hmm... Well I suppose she could... but let's wait and see, just to be sure... Better safe than sorry... That's what I always say... Oh well, she's clicked again... Fifteen times... I suppose we could switch... But not just now... I'm on my break... Maybe I'll just suddenly go into Hibernate mode instead for a few minutes..."
[screen goes blank]
[angry girl screams in frustration, hurls computer out window]
[computer shatters satisfyingly on pavement]
[screen flickers, just one last time - "Press OK to confirm booking"]
[all goes dark]
Fin.
posted by feithline @ 1:34 PM
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