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My wife can't find her passport and we're leaving for London tomorrow. We are fucked, aren't we? Hahahahaha!

― adam. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 2 September 2004 03:01 (twenty-one years ago)

This is a request for advice and sympathy, though it might not initially look like one. We need to buy a safe or something.

― adam. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 2 September 2004 03:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Seriously, there is no other way of leaving the country...right? not legally?

― adam. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 2 September 2004 03:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Could someone please lend us a cessna?

― adam. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 2 September 2004 03:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Do any of you own a cannon or giant human-sized comedy catapult?

― adam. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 2 September 2004 03:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Failing that...do you know any good forgers?

― adam. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 2 September 2004 03:04 (twenty-one years ago)

just keep looking, it should turn up. At least it always does when I panic and think I've lost mine.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 2 September 2004 03:05 (twenty-one years ago)

2.5 hours and still no joy. We only have a 1bed place with no storage!

― adam. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 2 September 2004 03:06 (twenty-one years ago)

This is the stuff that marriage is made of.

― adam. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 2 September 2004 03:06 (twenty-one years ago)

when did she last use it?

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 2 September 2004 03:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Has she thrown away or given away any purses/wallets?

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Thursday, 2 September 2004 03:07 (twenty-one years ago)

look inside an envelope

― rainy (rainy), Thursday, 2 September 2004 03:07 (twenty-one years ago)

There's this page but I have no idea if it's what you'll be able to use:

http://travel.state.gov/passport/lost_us.html

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 2 September 2004 03:08 (twenty-one years ago)

She said she had been keeping it in her underwear drawer...I mean...DUDES! =o

"Woman organize stuff like this"

She may have used it to get a CA driver's license?

No she has not thrown away bags. She is a hoarder...

― adam. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 2 September 2004 03:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Thnaks, Ned - checking that out.

― adam. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 2 September 2004 03:09 (twenty-one years ago)

She said she had been keeping it in her underwear drawer.

I keep mine in the drawer above the underwear drawer. Not her underwear drawer, for obvious reasons.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 2 September 2004 03:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Adam - go to a consulate or passport centre IMMEDIATELY.

Passports can be reissued very quickly, usually either for an extra fee or if you have proof of travel. They might give you a grilling or do a background check over the lost passport but its for yr own protection really.

Thats how it works in Aust anway. I used to work at the passport office :)

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 2 September 2004 03:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Also, if you had a visa in it you needed, well erm then you might be screwed, as it can take longer to arrange those.

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 2 September 2004 03:10 (twenty-one years ago)

It is 9:15pm in California, Trayce. But our flight leaves at 4:30 pm tomorrow. Maybe that is what we will have to do.

No visas - I am the visa holder, and all is copacetic with me.

― adam. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 2 September 2004 03:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Well you probably will have to, to get a new one that quickly unfortunately. I dont believe temporary papers can be issued in lieu or anything :( But if you go first thing in the morning you might be arright. If theres a 24hr helpline for that link Ned posted, maybe call and ask?

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 2 September 2004 03:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Mind you this is all based on my knowledge of Aus immigration and passport laws. I dunno if the US are more/less strict.

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 2 September 2004 03:13 (twenty-one years ago)

And good luck either way!

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 2 September 2004 03:15 (twenty-one years ago)

tx! :(

― adam. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 2 September 2004 03:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Well apparently the 24hr helpline is closed between 5pm and 8pm EST, which makes perfect sense.

― adam. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 2 September 2004 03:16 (twenty-one years ago)

The US is way more strict, I'd guess.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 2 September 2004 03:17 (twenty-one years ago)

y'know, just in case the RNC didn't reming you, SEPTEMBER 11th and whatnot. I think I'm just gonna post SEPTEMBER 11th over and over again:

SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th SEPTEMBER 11th

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 2 September 2004 03:19 (twenty-one years ago)

there, I feel better already.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 2 September 2004 03:19 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't!

― adam. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 2 September 2004 03:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah way to cheer Adam up H! ;P

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 2 September 2004 03:27 (twenty-one years ago)

It's okay.

No wait, it isn't.

Yes...it is.

― adam. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 2 September 2004 03:27 (twenty-one years ago)

― adam. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 2 September 2004 03:28 (twenty-one years ago)

I think I need to get really drunk.

― adam. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 2 September 2004 03:28 (twenty-one years ago)

oh come on man, be happy, you're going to Europe where nobody gives a shit about that crap. The two times I've been to Spain since were great because I didn't have to hear some idiot Republican rattle on about...you guessed it...

SEPTEMBER 11th!

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 2 September 2004 03:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Yabut with no pisspot, they ain't goin' nowhere.

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 2 September 2004 03:31 (twenty-one years ago)

hahaha MAKE THE WIFEY STAY WHILE YOU HAVE FUN YURPIN' IT UP.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 2 September 2004 03:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Right now she is making panicked phone calls to her mother in Indiana, poor woman.

― adam. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 2 September 2004 03:33 (twenty-one years ago)

good thing Indiana's on Central Time.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 2 September 2004 03:33 (twenty-one years ago)

It will all be alright.

― rainy (rainy), Thursday, 2 September 2004 03:34 (twenty-one years ago)

hahaha

h, I am trying not to entertain that possibility...or is it the stuff dreams are made of?

xxpost

― adam. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 2 September 2004 03:34 (twenty-one years ago)

don't tell her I said it!

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 2 September 2004 03:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Nothing in the kitchen but half a bottle of tequila...and an old portobello mushroom.

― adam. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 2 September 2004 03:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Eat the mushroom!

Wait no I was kidding.

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 2 September 2004 03:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Maybe it's magic?

― adam. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 2 September 2004 03:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Use it to lure the Keebler elves from the cupboard.

― x j e r e m y (x Jeremy), Thursday, 2 September 2004 03:38 (twenty-one years ago)

eat one side the mushrrom and you can grow small enough to travel without a passport

― rainy (rainy), Thursday, 2 September 2004 03:38 (twenty-one years ago)

All of this stress time was meant to be spent in music geek heaven, loading a bunch of new stuff onto my iPod for the flight. Aaaaah, just the thought of it.

hahahhaha these are all of course brilliant suggestions!

― adam. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 2 September 2004 03:39 (twenty-one years ago)

And I will be trying each and every one of them as the desperation grows.

― adam. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 2 September 2004 03:39 (twenty-one years ago)

seriously how big is your place? And when would've been the last time she used it?

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 2 September 2004 03:40 (twenty-one years ago)

oh shit, adam, this really sucks. you have my sympathy. i had a similar situation once where i was applying for a new passport way too late and my guarantor was rejected two days before my flight! i had to run around town looking for a doctor or a mayor who would claim to have known me for more than two years! then i ended up picking up my passport two hours before my flight

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 2 September 2004 03:44 (twenty-one years ago)

one funny thing, though, was that i was waiting at the passport office and i decided to read my book as there was a long line-up. it was a couple of minutes before i realized i was reading "the meaning of treason" by rebecca west!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 2 September 2004 03:45 (twenty-one years ago)

! good book ! and also, funny story.

― x j e r e m y (x Jeremy), Thursday, 2 September 2004 03:47 (twenty-one years ago)

seriously how big is your place? And when would've been the last time she used it?

Our place is a 1bd bungalow. It has two closets, one dresser, and a bookcase. That is it for storage. She did last use it to get her license. She doesn't know what she did with it after that.

What kind of place would we need to go to tomorrow AM? The INS? A consulate?

― adam. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 2 September 2004 03:48 (twenty-one years ago)

If this story will reassure at all...

Once when I worked at the Aust passport office, a woman came rushing in needing a VERY URGENT passport.

Turns out she'd gone all thru travel agency arrangements, planning, booking the lot and not once had anyone noticed her passport had expired. So of course she'd got to customs, and they told her what for.

Now Melbourne's airport is a good hours drive from the city in heavy traffic. Luckily she'd gone early, so she had time to rush back to the city, we issued her a ppt in about a half hour, and she rushed back out again - I think they held the plane for her. So she still made it, even though she was literally at the gate when shit hit the fan :)

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 2 September 2004 03:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Where are you again, SF isnt it? There must be an Immigration office or whatever the place is where they issue passports.

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 2 September 2004 03:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes, SF.

― adam. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 2 September 2004 03:52 (twenty-one years ago)

any luck so far?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 2 September 2004 03:53 (twenty-one years ago)

has she checked all her bags, purses, books she might have been reading?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 2 September 2004 03:53 (twenty-one years ago)

coat pockets?

― rainy (rainy), Thursday, 2 September 2004 03:53 (twenty-one years ago)

coat pockets, envelopes, bags, books, notebooks, underneath beds, sofas, behind drawers, between books on bookcase, magazines, laptop bags...

― adam. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 2 September 2004 03:55 (twenty-one years ago)

how are you justifying being on the computer now?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 2 September 2004 03:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Try this site:

http://www.traveldocs.com/passports/

Travel Document Systems, the leader in travel documentation for the past eighteen years provides travelers with an option to obtain an expedited passport required for an urgent or emergency departure. If you need to depart the US urgently then TDS is your source of information.

San Francisco Office
One Embarcadero Center
Suite 500
San Francisco, CA 94111
Voice: 1-888-874-5100
Local: 415-773-2829
Fax: 415-773-2834
sfo@traveldocs.com

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 2 September 2004 03:55 (twenty-one years ago)

s1ocki shouldn't you be out celebrating your birthday???

hahaha "research"

― adam. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 2 September 2004 03:56 (twenty-one years ago)

did you check the bathroom?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 2 September 2004 03:56 (twenty-one years ago)

And I am going through boxfiles while typing this.

― adam. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 2 September 2004 03:56 (twenty-one years ago)

NO!

Trayce- thank you VERY much.

― adam. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 2 September 2004 03:56 (twenty-one years ago)

i celebrated last night (and will again this weekend)! no puking two nights in a row for me thanks! (but i did go out for a nice dinner tonight at one of my favourite restaurants)

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 2 September 2004 03:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Or http://travel.state.gov/passport/ppt_sf.html

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 2 September 2004 03:58 (twenty-one years ago)

*does the magic findy-papery-thingy dance just in case*

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 2 September 2004 03:58 (twenty-one years ago)

We went out for a GREAT dinner last night, I will tell you more about it...some other time.

― adam. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 2 September 2004 03:59 (twenty-one years ago)

no now! what're you so busy doing that you can't tell me NOW NOW NOW?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 2 September 2004 04:00 (twenty-one years ago)

www.baywolf.com

come and visit. It'll be on me.

― adam. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 2 September 2004 04:00 (twenty-one years ago)

haha you didn't have to!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 2 September 2004 04:00 (twenty-one years ago)

that looks yum

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 2 September 2004 04:02 (twenty-one years ago)

for dinner we had a cold spanish anti-pasto plate (olives, artichokes, rapini, cheese), really great fried calamari, grilled veal sandwiches, and my friend who works in the kitchen brought me out a cold grilled octopus salad!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 2 September 2004 04:03 (twenty-one years ago)

update?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 2 September 2004 04:05 (twenty-one years ago)

My dinner was low key due to a large lunch -- fresh garden cucumber and tomatoes, all chopped up, with some dressing, salt and pepper and parmesan cheese. Num!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 2 September 2004 04:05 (twenty-one years ago)

fresh parmesan?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 2 September 2004 04:06 (twenty-one years ago)

I had a skirt steak the likes of which you would NOT believe, and a pear and gorgonzola salad and a blueberry crisp thing for dessert

― adam. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 2 September 2004 04:06 (twenty-one years ago)

i mean like freshly grated or shaved, or pre-grated?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 2 September 2004 04:06 (twenty-one years ago)

still no passport

― adam. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 2 September 2004 04:06 (twenty-one years ago)

damn!! i'm nervous

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 2 September 2004 04:07 (twenty-one years ago)

it's at these times in my life that i keep trying to google my apartment

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 2 September 2004 04:07 (twenty-one years ago)

pre-grated?

Pre in this case, though often I get a nice wedge and grate it myself.

Adam, it shall appear. I am casting the mystic runes.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 2 September 2004 04:08 (twenty-one years ago)

WITCH!

― rainy (rainy), Thursday, 2 September 2004 04:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Me, yesterday:

http://www.doggiefun.com/doggone/images/ned_witch.jpg

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 2 September 2004 04:10 (twenty-one years ago)

any luck yet??

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 2 September 2004 04:17 (twenty-one years ago)

― adam. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 2 September 2004 04:18 (twenty-one years ago)

it's not too late for you to start making an oversize novelty fake passport! in place of the picture you can cut a square out of the paper and your wife can stand behind it and smile

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 2 September 2004 04:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Perhaps we can bribe immigration with an ovesize check and a clown nose?

― adam. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 2 September 2004 04:22 (twenty-one years ago)

if you go to the passport center, they will not issue one same day unless there is an emergency - whether ot not you have tickets for the same day - so if you don't have an emergency, make one up, and for god's sake, be convincing.

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 2 September 2004 04:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Wow really? Thats harsh. I mean what if you have a non refundable overseas ticket thats v expensive and your dohickey is stolen or lost?

Our office just charges more for fast processing. But we aussies are wily in the ways of ripping people off.

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 2 September 2004 04:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Wow really? Thats harsh. I mean what if you have a non refundable overseas ticket thats v expensive and your dohickey is stolen or lost?

FEDERAL GOVERNMENT: Like we care, suckas.

― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Thursday, 2 September 2004 04:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah but thats just it, our govt isnt that harsh, I mean surely some accommodation for arrangements needs to be made.

Then again what am I htinking - the US is the place where they locked up and questioned an aust journo for no good reason a while back, made her go a day without any food.. and she was only some daggy ladies mag journo too.

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 2 September 2004 04:51 (twenty-one years ago)

...I just took two Vicodin tablets...waiting for the click...

― adam. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 2 September 2004 04:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Call the Passport office FIRST THING IN THE MORNING, and get down there.

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 2 September 2004 04:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes...she is at Kinko's right now getting passport photos...I am putting back together the house we just summarily dismantled.

― adam. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 2 September 2004 04:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Good luck - maybe it'll turn up by some miracle.

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 2 September 2004 04:56 (twenty-one years ago)

...should I pray?

― adam. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 2 September 2004 04:57 (twenty-one years ago)

I wish I knew the Hebrew for "passport".

― adam. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 2 September 2004 04:58 (twenty-one years ago)

It's "pas" in Yiddish, so try that instead.
Good luck.

― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Thursday, 2 September 2004 05:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Most suspenseful thread ever. How does this end?!

― J-rock (Julien Sandiford), Thursday, 2 September 2004 05:50 (twenty-one years ago)

it will be located between the cushions of the couch... next to a cum stain

― purple patch (electricsound), Thursday, 2 September 2004 05:52 (twenty-one years ago)

it is still going...sadly...prognosis is not good.

checking the couch now...

― adam. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 2 September 2004 05:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Man thats bad :(

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 2 September 2004 05:54 (twenty-one years ago)

is it in her desk at work? that's where i find nearly all of my *allegedly* lost important bits of paper. although i do keep my passport at home.

― gem (trisk), Thursday, 2 September 2004 06:17 (twenty-one years ago)

*cries*

― adam. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 2 September 2004 07:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Have you asked her why she didn't check where it was earlier?

*ducks*

― ___ (___), Thursday, 2 September 2004 07:34 (twenty-one years ago)

― adam. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 2 September 2004 07:35 (twenty-one years ago)

I wouldn't recommend it. It should sort itself out fine, I'm sure.

― ___ (___), Thursday, 2 September 2004 07:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Besides, London kinda sucks.

― ___ (___), Thursday, 2 September 2004 07:37 (twenty-one years ago)

― adam. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 2 September 2004 07:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Hey - it'll be fine. For lost stolen passport things there is emergency passports that should cover for the interim. I had to get one myself in the past.

― ___ (___), Thursday, 2 September 2004 07:43 (twenty-one years ago)

My sister in law and her husband live in Sydney. She had a casual friend stay with them, a Brit studying in the States. On his last night there, she and her husband took this guy out to dinner. Apparently, he was a terrible and inconsiderate house guest, but they were all excited to get him out of their hair. Anyway, when they returned from dinner they found out they accidentally left their dog locked in the room where the guest was staying. Nothing seemed amiss, except for the passport: the dog had chewed off the page with his picture! Because he was English and studying on a visa in the U.S., where he was set to return, he had to stick around for another week or so while things were sorted out.

So, my advice: use the "my dog ate it" excuse.

― Josh in Chicago (Josh in Chicago), Thursday, 2 September 2004 12:12 (twenty-one years ago)

you don't have a scanner at home do you? i left mine in there after scanning it the last time.

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 2 September 2004 12:23 (twenty-one years ago)

I've got nervous indigestion reading this thread. Do you have attic space? I used to hide important stuff up there and then forget.

― Penelope_111 (Penelope_111), Thursday, 2 September 2004 12:23 (twenty-one years ago)

I went down to a building that had something to do w/ passports to get a passport done quickly - but they wouldn't do one for me unless I had a flight the next day or sooner - so I had to do a rushed one though the post office (1 week turnaround). I think if you get all your paperwork together and get down to the relevent passport place, you should be fine to get one for your flight tomorrow.

I recently accidentally destroyed my passport - so I had to go the American Embassy in London to get a new one. The American Embassy is funny about passport picture sizes, apparently the standard 4 pics to a page style is slightly too small. I had to get my retaken down the street and they were 2 to a page and about 1 cm wider or something like that. Just so you know.

― marianna, Thursday, 2 September 2004 12:41 (twenty-one years ago)

always good to have a copy when you travel, too.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 2 September 2004 12:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Have you pulled out the underwear drawer all the way & looked under it, behind it, ... Try looking inside the old burlap skivvies that she never wears too..

― dave225 (Dave225), Thursday, 2 September 2004 12:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Could she have used it as a bookmark? Have you started going to places she might have visited when she last went out with it in case she dropped it and anyone handed it in?

IS IT WITH YOURS, ADAM??

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 2 September 2004 13:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Good morning! Still no passport! And it's not with mine or behind the underwear drawer! We also found out our tickets are non-refundable and cannot be changed, so right now Mrs "." is at the passport office pleading all kinds of fantastical family emergencies...there is a chance that I might have to go without her, otherwise we would just blow $1000 on flights. Let this be a lesson to you, kids! :(

Our flight leaves in 9 hours...

― adam. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 2 September 2004 13:36 (twenty-one years ago)

:( this blows. i'm crossing my fingers for you adam

― jones (actual), Thursday, 2 September 2004 13:39 (twenty-one years ago)

thanks jones! :*

― adam. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 2 September 2004 13:41 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm sensing....... a shelf........maybe tucked in between two books....put there in haste............

good luck dude, this must be awful for you both. Will you get to take her spending money?

― Porkpie (porkpie), Thursday, 2 September 2004 13:42 (twenty-one years ago)

I have not slept...really. I spent last night opening and thumbing through every single book in the house...and we have a lot of books. This morning I even checked the fridge.

Spending money hahaha!

― adam. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 2 September 2004 13:44 (twenty-one years ago)

oh man, this is an exciting tragedy. good luck to her acting skills and stuff, hope it turns out ok!

― colette (a2lette), Thursday, 2 September 2004 13:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Bollocks, I now have an ulcer.

― Penelope_111 (Penelope_111), Thursday, 2 September 2004 13:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Man this thread makes me nervous. I keep refreshing it hoping that any minute Adam will say 'I FOUND IT!!'

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Thursday, 2 September 2004 13:47 (twenty-one years ago)

(my lost passpost story: boyfriend [english] was packing for our trip to barcelona, realised he'd lost his passport and only had his old expired one. after going to both the english passport office and the spanish embassy, who were no help, we decided to go to the airport. i'd go alone if i had to, but we figured we'd give it a shot. got there, checked in, the lady gave us tickets and said to him 'oh, you should get a new passport, yours is expired' and we were on the way. but that was within the EU. but still, i've been there, it sucks! but it'll all work out...)

― colette (a2lette), Thursday, 2 September 2004 13:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Good thoughts, Mr. Adam. Something will resolve itself!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 2 September 2004 13:49 (twenty-one years ago)

I am at work now, so the chances of it being found at all today are pretty slim.

― adam. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 2 September 2004 13:54 (twenty-one years ago)

A friend of a friend couldn't find her passport the night before her trip. Her flight was at 7am so the passport office would not have been open. So she came up with a plan. She borrowed her sister's and intended saying, if questioned, that she must have picked the wrong one up by mistake. (They don't even look alike particularly) She presented at check-in and sailed through and the same deal coming back! They didn't even notice or check that the first name was different. Obviously this was all pre 9/11 and I certainly wouldn't be able for that kind of stress.

― Penelope_111 (Penelope_111), Thursday, 2 September 2004 13:55 (twenty-one years ago)

I just like to think that right about now she is talking to that one unique, bright, friendly government employee who will go above and beyond the call of duty to help a young lady in distress! Er, right.

― adam. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 2 September 2004 13:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Penelope-duly noted.

― adam. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 2 September 2004 13:55 (twenty-one years ago)

why are you working on the day you're leaving town, with this big an emergency? I'd have called in.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 2 September 2004 14:02 (twenty-one years ago)

adam, my dad works at the State Dept., I'm really not sure how much help he could be, especially since he's in DC, but if you need to talk to someone who might have more specialized knowledge about passports and getting one quickly, email me at naamme @ yahoo dot com and I'll send you his email address. Again, he probably won't be able to pull any strings from that far away, but he might be able to get you some advice/help.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 2 September 2004 14:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Ummm...you read the work thread on ANDSFAPB, didn't you?

I only live 5-10 mins from work and also we needed to use the fax, etc.

xpost-thanks nick.

― adam. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 2 September 2004 14:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Good luck adam. I really hope this has a happy ending.
(we have mates in common btw!)

― beanz (beanz), Thursday, 2 September 2004 14:13 (twenty-one years ago)

(we do - give me a clue!)

― adam. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 2 September 2004 14:17 (twenty-one years ago)

(Okay, doing a search shows me that you know some Yiddish and frequent London's glamorous Hampstead - we MUST have met! ;) )

― adam. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 2 September 2004 14:23 (twenty-one years ago)

We went to the same school but you probably won't remember me from there, I stayed with Chuck Tatum recently and someone else we both know doesn't post here as far as I know but she's in agonies over whether you're going to make it...

― beanz (beanz), Thursday, 2 September 2004 14:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Wow this is all so exciting I almost forgot about the whole passport deal. I am wondering why the "someone else we [and Chuck?] both know" isn't checking her email. And I know you are reading, Chuck. ;)

― adam. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 2 September 2004 14:28 (twenty-one years ago)

best of luck, adam. i got a passport once the day before i travelled, from an expedition agency in new york. i'm not sure about day of, but you might want to look into an agency called traffic control. they do serious last minute kind of stuff.

― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 2 September 2004 14:31 (twenty-one years ago)

thx lrn!

Update: Mrs "." has an emergency appt. in one earth hour. They may be able to get her a passport by 4...and our flight leaves at 4:30.

― adam. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 2 September 2004 14:33 (twenty-one years ago)

the DRAMA

― adam. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 2 September 2004 14:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Can you get to the airport and on the plane in time?
oh god my stomach's all knotted up... not as bad as yours I bet though

― beanz (beanz), Thursday, 2 September 2004 14:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Could you guys get a different flight?

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Thursday, 2 September 2004 14:35 (twenty-one years ago)

beanz are you M*r**s?

xpost- I feel strangely calm, actually.

― adam. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 2 September 2004 14:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh my, I didn't realise that this was in real time -- I jept expecting to see the conclusion at the bottom of the thread! NOW I AM CAUGHT IN THE DRAMA ALSO!

― the impossible shortest special path! (the impossible shortest specia), Thursday, 2 September 2004 14:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Mandee-tickets non-refundable and cannot be changed.

MORE DRAMA

― adam. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 2 September 2004 14:36 (twenty-one years ago)

So much so that I can no longer spell properly due to quick-fingered typing! (xpost)

― the impossible shortest special path! (the impossible shortest specia), Thursday, 2 September 2004 14:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Ah, Adam, they always tell you that but everyone I know who has missed their flight has got put on a later one. Sometimes you might have to wait for like ten hours but I've never seen someone just be completely denied. They just tell you that but when you get to the counter claiming some emergency issue they don't want to just deny you and be nasty--they're in the service industry, after all.

― Allyzay Science Explosion (allyzay), Thursday, 2 September 2004 14:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh muh god. OH MUH GOD. I AM SO NERVOUS@!!!!!

Hmm.. um.. oh man. YOU KNOW. I bought a ticket once that said it COULD NOT BE CHANGED. And then I called the airline and they let me change flights -$100 the value of the ticket.

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Thursday, 2 September 2004 14:38 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah my tix to SF are "non-refundable" but it only cost $100 to change them.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 2 September 2004 14:39 (twenty-one years ago)

beanz are you M*r**s

No, sorry - I'll email you.

Have you rung the airline to warn them? The flight might be delayed already or something

xpost

― beanz (beanz), Thursday, 2 September 2004 14:41 (twenty-one years ago)

tense stuff

― Porkpie (porkpie), Thursday, 2 September 2004 14:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Adam, totally call the airline and see if you can get a flight tomorrow.

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Thursday, 2 September 2004 14:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Mandeeeee makes a very good point

(I'd assumed you'd already called them)

and tell the wife that all us guys down at the station are rooting for her.

― Porkpie (porkpie), Thursday, 2 September 2004 14:45 (twenty-one years ago)

I already have! I'll try again now.

xpost-haha!

― adam. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 2 September 2004 14:45 (twenty-one years ago)

it's always a pain in the ass to some degree, but if you miss your flight then you'll get put on another one. it's happened to me probably four times in the past two years, and i was pretty quickly re-ticketed without any kind of fee.

― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 2 September 2004 14:49 (twenty-one years ago)

i couldn't find my passport around this time last year.. just as someone called me from hong kong saying a family member was really ill. So I had to take a plane in haste, got home in my car (my car's parked elsewhere because i live on a busy main road and i could only park the car for a short period of time) to find the passport. spent 2.5 hours before i could find it. finally found it, went downstairs and found that during that search time, some retard had smashed into my car and the car was fucked. it was the most awful day of my life. instead of being on a plane i had to report to a police station that evening.. just so they can make me fill in a form.

you never know when a passport can come in handy.

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 2 September 2004 14:50 (twenty-one years ago)

THREAD UPDATE PLZ

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 2 September 2004 14:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Also, Adam, can I please have the film rights to this thread? I've thought of a rad way of making it work. Robert Altman is already on board.

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 2 September 2004 14:57 (twenty-one years ago)

You'd need Kathy Bates as the passport office clerk

― beanz (beanz), Thursday, 2 September 2004 14:59 (twenty-one years ago)

I think short film versions should be made of EVERY ILX thread.

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Thursday, 2 September 2004 15:02 (twenty-one years ago)

i bagsie gear's roomie thread

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 2 September 2004 15:03 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm hoping that Adam is on the phone with a ticketing agent RIGHT NOW.

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Thursday, 2 September 2004 15:03 (twenty-one years ago)

altman version:
clive owen as adam
shelley duvall-as-olive oyl as mrs. adam
elliot gould as the passport

(nb i have never seen adam or his wife or their passports)

― jones (actual), Thursday, 2 September 2004 15:07 (twenty-one years ago)

what's happeniiiiiing?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 2 September 2004 15:08 (twenty-one years ago)

yes 'the passports' directed by robert altman will have to be an ensemble cast.

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Thursday, 2 September 2004 15:09 (twenty-one years ago)

the posts are all overlapping so time has collapsed

― jones (actual), Thursday, 2 September 2004 15:09 (twenty-one years ago)

i just saw resident evil 2

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 2 September 2004 15:10 (twenty-one years ago)

haha AND?

― jones (actual), Thursday, 2 September 2004 15:11 (twenty-one years ago)

I spoke to a nice, concerned woman from Virgin called Bernadette. Apparently, Expedia took it upon themselves to cancel the ticket, even though we asked them not to! So now we are on standby for a flight we had legitimately booked!

THAT IS HOW YOU CRANK UP THE TENSION

― adam. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 2 September 2004 15:11 (twenty-one years ago)

If we make it, this will have to be the best vacation evah! I'm going to dance naked and drunk through Watford!

― adam. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 2 September 2004 15:12 (twenty-one years ago)

OH MY GOD COULD THIS GET ANY WORSE?

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Thursday, 2 September 2004 15:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Mandee, the idea is that we are also in the film, on the other end of the internet. We each get to be played by rad character actors!! I, for example, will be played by Wally Shawn.

Adam, at least now you have someone else to blame. Did Expedia know about the passport issue?

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 2 September 2004 15:12 (twenty-one years ago)

oh god i can't cope with much more of this

― beanz (beanz), Thursday, 2 September 2004 15:13 (twenty-one years ago)

what??!?! they cancelled it w/o your permission and there's no refund?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 2 September 2004 15:13 (twenty-one years ago)

oh btw resident evil 2 sucked ass

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 2 September 2004 15:13 (twenty-one years ago)

fuckin expedia. IN MY WORLD adam and his wife don't deserve this hassle

― jones (actual), Thursday, 2 September 2004 15:13 (twenty-one years ago)

I am on the phone and drinking coffee and writing work memos while posting - THAT is how you multitask.

Mark-yes, I guess that's why they cancelled? We specifically asked them not to. I am on hold with them now.

― adam. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 2 September 2004 15:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Right, I'm going home now, can someone text me an update in an hour or so?

Also Adam, when you do get over here are you having a FAP?

Apologies if I missed a thread about it

― Porkpie (porkpie), Thursday, 2 September 2004 15:14 (twenty-one years ago)

I am hoping to make it one of Pete's birthday things. I will be knackered, obv.

― adam. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 2 September 2004 15:15 (twenty-one years ago)

EXPEDIA BAD, PEOPLE!

― adam. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 2 September 2004 15:15 (twenty-one years ago)

adam this might be an opportunity--if they realized they fucked up maybe you can get them to book a later ticket instead!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 2 September 2004 15:15 (twenty-one years ago)

crisotunity and all that

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 2 September 2004 15:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Please kick their asses telephonically.

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 2 September 2004 15:16 (twenty-one years ago)

I always have too much sympathy for telephone reps. :( Must be TUFF!

― adam. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 2 September 2004 15:17 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm on the edge of my seat about this - it was one of the first things I thought of when I woke up! Please, passport agency, please let Mrs. Adam have a passport!

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 2 September 2004 15:17 (twenty-one years ago)

This hold music suuuuuuuucks

― adam. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 2 September 2004 15:17 (twenty-one years ago)

lalalalalalalala

― adam. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 2 September 2004 15:17 (twenty-one years ago)

i love how adam has amassed an international super-squad of supportive people to help him through this troubled time!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 2 September 2004 15:18 (twenty-one years ago)

that ain't bad, kiddo.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 2 September 2004 15:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes, thank you very much everyone. I was expecting much more gloating but no!

― adam. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 2 September 2004 15:19 (twenty-one years ago)

The first time I flew with Expedia, I found out when I got to the airport that somehow they had managed to issue my e-ticket for the wrong flight. So I had to try and get them on the phone and get this straightened out with the minutes ticking away until boarding time. Then, after the trip, when I received my credit card statement, I discovered that they had charged me for both flights, the right one and the wrong one. I don't use them any more - I use Travelocity or Orbitz.

― o. nate (onate), Thursday, 2 September 2004 15:19 (twenty-one years ago)

This is is exactly the kind of thread I would post a deadpan and throwaway response to (were it not my own)!

― adam. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 2 September 2004 15:20 (twenty-one years ago)

if only one of us actually works at the passport place...

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 2 September 2004 15:21 (twenty-one years ago)

If one of us worked at the passport office we'd probably accuse them of wasting time on ilx all day when they could be helping people in this situation.

― beanz (beanz), Thursday, 2 September 2004 15:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Cripes!! How many hours left to go now Adam?!

― Starry (hello chickens), Thursday, 2 September 2004 15:23 (twenty-one years ago)

i think expedia owes you a flight to london tomorrow plus an upgrade to business class!

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Thursday, 2 September 2004 15:23 (twenty-one years ago)

at the very LEAST.

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 2 September 2004 15:24 (twenty-one years ago)

i suggest if they refuse you threaten to hurl centipedes at them

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Thursday, 2 September 2004 15:24 (twenty-one years ago)

hearing bad stories about expedia almost makes up for their obnoxious ad campaign – i mean no offense adam, but you didn't take one look at that ad and think "that way lies ruin"??

― jones (actual), Thursday, 2 September 2004 15:25 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm hitting the hard stuff - Rescue Remedy - me nerves.

― Penelope_111 (Penelope_111), Thursday, 2 September 2004 15:25 (twenty-one years ago)

new theory: expedia stole the passport

― jones (actual), Thursday, 2 September 2004 15:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Okay...big development...Mrs Adam has met with the passport people and they say that they may be able to get her a passport by 2 or 3 o'clock. In downtown SF. And our flight is at 4:30.

OH MY GOD I CAN'T TAKE IT

Meanwhile...I am STILL on hold with ExPEEdia

― adam. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 2 September 2004 15:32 (twenty-one years ago)

*fingers crossed for Mrs. Adam*

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 2 September 2004 15:32 (twenty-one years ago)

"Your call is important to us blahblah"

― adam. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 2 September 2004 15:33 (twenty-one years ago)

We'll bombard them with hate mail and pseudo solicitor's letters if they fuck up.

Can we hurry this along please? I've to go somewhere.

― Penelope_111 (Penelope_111), Thursday, 2 September 2004 15:33 (twenty-one years ago)

i'm holding my breath!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 2 September 2004 15:34 (twenty-one years ago)

haha

― adam. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 2 September 2004 15:34 (twenty-one years ago)

expedia is really unbelievable. i think when employees there have a bad day, they go into the system and randomly delete reservations.

― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 2 September 2004 15:34 (twenty-one years ago)

be fierce, adam.

― Towelette Pettatucci (Homosexual II), Thursday, 2 September 2004 15:34 (twenty-one years ago)

I think we should bombard them with hate mail anyway.

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 2 September 2004 15:35 (twenty-one years ago)

they should call it impedia!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 2 September 2004 15:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Please, do not let horseface Roberts play me, I just won't have it.

Yes, bombardment is go.

― Penelope_111 (Penelope_111), Thursday, 2 September 2004 15:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Crazy about Expedia. :-( I've never had a problem with them so clearly I must transfer some of my good luck to Adam and Sarah.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 2 September 2004 15:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Hey, Pettatucci! Are you related to Crocefisso Pettatucci, who stole my great grandfather's shovel in Monreale in 1903? If so, we have UNFINISHED BIZ-I-NISS!

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 2 September 2004 15:38 (twenty-one years ago)

flying out of SFO?

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 2 September 2004 15:39 (twenty-one years ago)

"I'm going to dance naked and drunk through Watford!"

dude, let me tell you, that this is not advisable. not anytime between thurs 18.00 and sunday 10.00, at least, i dont say this through past experience, its just a hunch. get me.

― ambrose (ambrose), Thursday, 2 September 2004 15:39 (twenty-one years ago)

typical wall-of-silence corporate phone bullshit

― adam. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 2 September 2004 15:39 (twenty-one years ago)

h-yes

― adam. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 2 September 2004 15:39 (twenty-one years ago)

oh great i get to speak to a supervisor

― adam. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 2 September 2004 15:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Are you going to hurl centipedes at me, Mark?

― Towelette Pettatucci (Homosexual II), Thursday, 2 September 2004 15:41 (twenty-one years ago)

No! I will deflower your daughter and dilute your extra virgin olive oil with plain old virgin olive oil.

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 2 September 2004 15:42 (twenty-one years ago)

There will be no hurling of centipedes at Boots.

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 2 September 2004 15:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, he's good.

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 2 September 2004 15:43 (twenty-one years ago)

btw does this name look good on me?

― Towelette Pettatucci (Homosexual II), Thursday, 2 September 2004 15:44 (twenty-one years ago)

It's a spiffy name!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 2 September 2004 15:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Enchanting if a little personal feminine hygiene-y

― Penelope_111 (Penelope_111), Thursday, 2 September 2004 15:46 (twenty-one years ago)

ADAM WHAT IS THE HAPS.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 2 September 2004 15:46 (twenty-one years ago)

I am now speaking to the supervisor's supervisor - I'm not kidding.

― adam. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 2 September 2004 15:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Dear Exped1a:

We hate you. Everyone we know hates you (except Ned and we're not sure he's telling the entire truth, so his vote also counts as one for abject loathing). Your policies suck, your employees suck, and yes, Exped1a, we all think you bite the big one. When you cancelled Mr & Mrs Adam's tickets without their knowledge or consent, you fucked with the wrong messageboard, pal. There will be threads, there will be posts deriding what you want us to think is your good name, and in a fit of fury and debauchery the likes of which hasn't been seen since Rome burned, there MAY EVEN BE HAT WASHING. We'll get you yet, Exped1a, you and your little dog, too.

Sincerely,

the people who think you suck.

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 2 September 2004 15:50 (twenty-one years ago)

http://badgas.co.uk/lynndie/groom_south_africa.jpg

― gainfully employed (ex machina), Thursday, 2 September 2004 15:52 (twenty-one years ago)

luna, I misread that as a "fist of fury and debauchery." ew.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Thursday, 2 September 2004 15:53 (twenty-one years ago)

ned i cant believe you just called my new name spiffy :(

― Towelette Pettatucci (Homosexual II), Thursday, 2 September 2004 15:54 (twenty-one years ago)

adam maybe soon you'll speak to the PRESIDENT OF THE COMPANY!

― Towelette Pettatucci (Homosexual II), Thursday, 2 September 2004 15:55 (twenty-one years ago)

adam, you can take the BART from downtown to SFO but it's like a 40 minute ride. if time is tight: a cab at 3pm shouldn't be too bad, maybe 25-30 mins. i'd be sure to mention to the cab driver that you are in quite a hurry and incent the driver with a promise of an unusually high tip.

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 2 September 2004 15:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Enchanting if a little personal feminine hygiene-y

Yes, but who among us wouldn't want to Petatucci?

― o. nate (onate), Thursday, 2 September 2004 15:55 (twenty-one years ago)

adam, have mrs. "." cast a spell to "locate passport".

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 2 September 2004 15:56 (twenty-one years ago)

The one thing I have learned from this thread is to never use Expedia. Hope everything works out okay, Adam!

― Leon Czolgosz (Nicole), Thursday, 2 September 2004 15:57 (twenty-one years ago)

>You are in a room. There is a table, a bed and a wardrobe. On the table is a passport

>Take passport

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 2 September 2004 15:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Good fucking lord.

― Allyzay Science Explosion (allyzay), Thursday, 2 September 2004 15:59 (twenty-one years ago)

seriously--who knew it was that easy?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 2 September 2004 16:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Expedia say they have "documented" our authorization to cancel the flight. That is the official word from top to bottom. No refund, no apology, no nothing. DODGY

I asked whether the phone call was recorded...it wasn't.

― adam. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 2 September 2004 16:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Egads, good luck and all that adam!!!! We'll all have ID chips inserted in our brains one day, and we'll look back fondly on the days when we couldn't find our passports.

(I lost my passport, found it, it was out-of-date, but I wasn't going anywhere so it was okay)

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 2 September 2004 16:09 (twenty-one years ago)

FUCK. How can they "document" that? Dude that sucks.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 2 September 2004 16:11 (twenty-one years ago)

arghhhhhh!!!!!

Expedia is a Microsoft venture, FWIW. :/

― gainfully employed (ex machina), Thursday, 2 September 2004 16:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Does that mean even if your wife gets a passport, you can't travel?

― Penelope_111 (Penelope_111), Thursday, 2 September 2004 16:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Y'see the Passport thing I found a bit amusing, as I could relate from my stray placing of things.

The Exped1a thing really sucks.

― ___ (___), Thursday, 2 September 2004 16:12 (twenty-one years ago)

so expedia just fucked you and that's it?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 2 September 2004 16:12 (twenty-one years ago)

After hearing about this 'documentation,' NOW I agree with the loathing part.

ned i cant believe you just called my new name spiffy :(

:-( Is that not a word in favor these days?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 2 September 2004 16:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Adam, that's bullshit, ESPECIALLY IF THEIR POLICY IS NO CANCELLATIONS/REFUNDS. Keep going, dude, do not take that as an answer.

― Allyzay Science Explosion (allyzay), Thursday, 2 September 2004 16:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh my god THIS SUCKS. Expedia is now on my shit list.

― Towelette Pettatucci (Homosexual II), Thursday, 2 September 2004 16:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes exactly, how can they cancel the uncancellable?

― Penelope_111 (Penelope_111), Thursday, 2 September 2004 16:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Ask them to send you copies of this documentation.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 2 September 2004 16:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Call them back and don't take no for an answer.

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 2 September 2004 16:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Can Jon W do a denial of service attack on Exped1a's website?

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 2 September 2004 16:17 (twenty-one years ago)

From Expedia's website:

Changing or canceling a flight
Most fares in Economy/Coach class have an airline-imposed penalty fee of $100 or more per passenger for changes and cancellations, plus any applicable increase in the fare. Some tickets are nonrefundable, but can be applied (for a limited time) toward future travel, less any applicable penalties. Some tickets do not allow changes.

So, either your ticket does NOT allow changes (ergo they shouldn't have cancelled it) OR they owe you a credit for future travel (for a limited time).

― Allyzay Science Explosion (allyzay), Thursday, 2 September 2004 16:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Allzay OTM

― gainfully employed (ex machina), Thursday, 2 September 2004 16:19 (twenty-one years ago)

In fact, ALL of their cancellation policies (including "Vacation Packages", if you went in for that) state that, while nonrefundable, they will give you a credit for future travel, minus change penalty.

― Allyzay Science Explosion (allyzay), Thursday, 2 September 2004 16:19 (twenty-one years ago)

adam, just keep asking to speak to someone even higher in the chain of command. At some point they will just give in.

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Thursday, 2 September 2004 16:21 (twenty-one years ago)

and put the ape on

― Penelope_111 (Penelope_111), Thursday, 2 September 2004 16:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Seriously, can Tad or another lawyer here draft a quick letter Adam could use? I'm sure it'd be much appreciated and proves the spirit of ILX can be a force for good.

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 2 September 2004 16:24 (twenty-one years ago)

I spoke to MELANIE, it doesn't get any higher up than that!

At the moment, I just need us to get this passport and this flight...then we'll deal with the cretins.

Good work, Ally.

― adam. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 2 September 2004 16:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Haha I just have it out for airlines and travel services after my flight cancellation/racism/16hrs-in-fucking-Orlando-International debacle a few months after 9/11, finding ways to get those fuckers is like my pet love.

― Allyzay Science Explosion (allyzay), Thursday, 2 September 2004 16:27 (twenty-one years ago)

rascism?!?!?!

― gainfully employed (ex machina), Thursday, 2 September 2004 16:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Airline employees beat up KITTENS! You heard it here first.

― adam. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 2 September 2004 16:32 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah, Jon, it is unadvisable to go back in time, travel in the months after 9/11, get your flight cancelled, and be accompanied by someone from a "questionable country of origin", just trust me. Don't do that.

A good friend of mine worked for an airline, she was a flight attendant. She never beat up a cat but she thought it was funny when another friend of ours kicked a cat across a bar--HEATHENS.

― Allyzay Science Explosion (allyzay), Thursday, 2 September 2004 16:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Wow, this thread is harrowing. If I could kick Expedia in the nuts, I would.

― Dan Perry '08 (Dan Perry), Thursday, 2 September 2004 16:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah no, I'm like actually getting actively annoyed here.

Good luck, adam. They should be able to give you a new flight using the credit from the one they cancelled on you. Also, it is OTM to recommend that you demand they send you their "documentation"--being pushy and sounding like you have some legal ideas in your head will usually scare them a little. If they can get you a new flight for tomorrow then the whole thing is sorted in the end--you don't even need to continue the passport rush.

― Allyzay Science Explosion (allyzay), Thursday, 2 September 2004 16:53 (twenty-one years ago)

I would sue them anyway, just for a laugh.

― Dan Perry '08 (Dan Perry), Thursday, 2 September 2004 16:54 (twenty-one years ago)

One thing about this "credit" issue, Adam presumably bought his tickets probably > 4 weeks ago. Have you ever tried to book an overseas ticket the day of? There is quite a substantial difference in price!

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 2 September 2004 17:01 (twenty-one years ago)

We bought them in June.

It seems like we may possibly make this now...unbelievable.

― adam. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 2 September 2004 17:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Boo to MELANIE at EXPEDIA. Hooray for BERNADETTE at VIRGIN.

― adam. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 2 September 2004 17:04 (twenty-one years ago)

So I am to proceed to the airport as normal and stall the plane as wifey rushes to the airport hopefully with new passport. Do I need to fake some sort of seizure???

― adam. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 2 September 2004 17:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Ooh, I hope this all works out okay.

― Leon Czolgosz (Nicole), Thursday, 2 September 2004 17:36 (twenty-one years ago)

How can it fail???

― adam. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 2 September 2004 17:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Did you have to buy new tickets?

― Leon Czolgosz (Nicole), Thursday, 2 September 2004 17:39 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah full update if you have time please!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 2 September 2004 17:40 (twenty-one years ago)

I have a ticket, she is on standby. I am leaving work in 15, y'all will have to wait a while to find out if we make it!

― adam. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 2 September 2004 17:41 (twenty-one years ago)

good luck and godspeed Mrs. Adam.

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 2 September 2004 17:42 (twenty-one years ago)

we should arrange some sort of signal

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 2 September 2004 17:45 (twenty-one years ago)

flash a mirror 3 times as the plane passes over montreal

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 2 September 2004 17:45 (twenty-one years ago)

I will wink slightly. Right eye.

― adam. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 2 September 2004 17:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Keep a look out.

― adam. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 2 September 2004 17:46 (twenty-one years ago)

I will also wear a blue rose.

― adam. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 2 September 2004 17:47 (twenty-one years ago)

toss it out the window as you pass over. if i find it on my balcony i'll know i can relax

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 2 September 2004 17:47 (twenty-one years ago)

so are they issuing your wife an emergency passport then?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 2 September 2004 17:48 (twenty-one years ago)

man what an ordeal. this england place better be worth it.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 2 September 2004 17:48 (twenty-one years ago)

It is the home of the chicken-bear.

― Leon Czolgosz (Nicole), Thursday, 2 September 2004 17:49 (twenty-one years ago)

good luck brody!

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 2 September 2004 17:51 (twenty-one years ago)

so are they issuing your wife an emergency passport then?
yes

man what an ordeal. this england place better be worth it.

...yes!

BYE!

― adam. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 2 September 2004 17:55 (twenty-one years ago)

(everyone collectively relaxes muscles in shoulders)

― amateur!!st, Thursday, 2 September 2004 18:18 (twenty-one years ago)

MASSAGE CIRCLE!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 2 September 2004 18:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Who will eat the soggy cookie?

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 2 September 2004 18:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, not that kind of massage. Sorry.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 2 September 2004 18:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Holy shit. Now what?

― mcd (mcd), Thursday, 2 September 2004 18:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Most intense thread evah!

― mcd (mcd), Thursday, 2 September 2004 18:43 (twenty-one years ago)

I need a drink after this thread.

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 2 September 2004 18:43 (twenty-one years ago)

I didn't read the whole thread so maybe someone already suggested this -- if she says she kept it in a drawer, it might have slid out the back of the drawer and fallen into another drawer or onto the floor underneath. Check behind it!

― Maria D. (Maria D.), Thursday, 2 September 2004 18:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Seriously. I hope adam & Mrs "." are on the plane with several tens of those little bottles empty before them. xpost

― mcd (mcd), Thursday, 2 September 2004 18:47 (twenty-one years ago)

the obv answer is

ihttp://membres.lycos.fr/qasw/poltergeist-delantera.jpg

― amateur!!st, Thursday, 2 September 2004 18:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Quick, someone lose something.

I'm taking a trip in October. I think I'll check on the passports this evening.

― dave225 (Dave225), Thursday, 2 September 2004 18:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, too late. This is like the Amazing Race!

― Maria D. (Maria D.), Thursday, 2 September 2004 18:48 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.filmcan.hpg.ig.com.br/posters/Gremlins.jpg

― Dan Perry '08 (Dan Perry), Thursday, 2 September 2004 18:51 (twenty-one years ago)

I wonder if Adam is going to slap his wife around like Colin. Or is he more the Brandon type... sigh.

― dave225 (Dave225), Thursday, 2 September 2004 18:51 (twenty-one years ago)

I think he's more a Chip kind of guy.

― Leon Czolgosz (Nicole), Thursday, 2 September 2004 18:52 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm damn sure gonna go home and find my passport - and I'm not even going anywhere.

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 2 September 2004 18:54 (twenty-one years ago)

An edited two hour DVD of all Amazing Race episodes would be a handy thing.

Anyway, now we wait...

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 2 September 2004 18:55 (twenty-one years ago)

ILX is going to be really fucking quiet without adam around.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 2 September 2004 19:20 (twenty-one years ago)

echo echo echo

― Maria D. (Maria D.), Thursday, 2 September 2004 19:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Hey guys, I lost my mp3 player! And in like 15 minutes I've got to listen to music!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 2 September 2004 19:30 (twenty-one years ago)

The magic is gone.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 2 September 2004 19:30 (twenty-one years ago)

So. Um, I'm going to Nebraska this weekend.

― Towelette Pettatucci (Homosexual II), Thursday, 2 September 2004 19:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Do not hate me for my vocab. :-(

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 2 September 2004 19:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Bolder?

― Porkpie (porkpie), Thursday, 2 September 2004 19:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Who hates you for your vocab, Ned?

― Towelette Pettatucci (Homosexual II), Thursday, 2 September 2004 19:52 (twenty-one years ago)

You said you didn't like the word 'spiffy'! Not that I'm hurt or anything. ;-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 2 September 2004 19:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Wow, I didn't bother reading this thread until now! I'm crossing my fingers for Adam and wifey!

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 2 September 2004 20:23 (twenty-one years ago)

If we have learned anything from The Streets, it is surely to look down the back of the telly?

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Thursday, 2 September 2004 23:01 (twenty-one years ago)

I am guessing that since it has been so long since an update, that Adam made it.

― Allyzay Science Explosion (allyzay), Thursday, 2 September 2004 23:04 (twenty-one years ago)

That or the poor guy is trapped at the airport. I certainly hope for the former, though!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 2 September 2004 23:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Wow - I just thread this whole thread in one go. It was like gorging on the 24 boxed set.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 2 September 2004 23:51 (twenty-one years ago)

N.B. I do not think that terrorists have a part to play.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 2 September 2004 23:51 (twenty-one years ago)

If they pull this off, I'm going to be such a procrastinator when I have to renew my passport. I get an insane high from scrambling after having left things to the last possible minute.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 2 September 2004 23:59 (twenty-one years ago)

You should go on the Amazing Race with Ned!

― Leon Czolgosz (Nicole), Friday, 3 September 2004 00:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Ah, now that's a vision!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 3 September 2004 00:47 (twenty-one years ago)

guys YES DO IT

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 3 September 2004 00:54 (twenty-one years ago)

But all we would do is go around places and say things in our radio-friendly voices and make fun of everyone else! (Then again, that could be enough.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 3 September 2004 01:03 (twenty-one years ago)

exactamundo!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 3 September 2004 01:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Good, good, I approve of this vision.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 3 September 2004 01:08 (twenty-one years ago)

what happened? did they make it? this thread is so long since yesterday i can't read all of it, the suspense is too much

― gem (trisk), Friday, 3 September 2004 01:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Somebody email me if Adam makes it, I've gotta switch to the decaf version of this bitch.

― x j e r e m y (x Jeremy), Friday, 3 September 2004 03:25 (twenty-one years ago)

He hasn't posted, which suggests the flight has been made, yes?

― ___ (___), Friday, 3 September 2004 07:11 (twenty-one years ago)

or of course, Mrs "." who doesn't post on here didn't make it, but Adam did...

― ___ (___), Friday, 3 September 2004 07:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Or they tried the sister's passport trick, got caught and are now being held in leg irons at Guantanamo Bay.

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 3 September 2004 07:48 (twenty-one years ago)

That is a good scenario Alba.

― ___ (___), Friday, 3 September 2004 08:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Sorry - I always fear the worst.

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 3 September 2004 08:09 (twenty-one years ago)

mrs. "." has posted here before tho. i texted her and she has yet to reply so....

― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 3 September 2004 11:25 (twenty-one years ago)

...maybe her mobile is with her passport?

― ___ (___), Friday, 3 September 2004 11:33 (twenty-one years ago)

I've just read the whole of this thread too. Phew! When Ally C and I went to New York in April, Exped1a cancelled our hotel and put us in another one a few blocks away. We didn't find out they'd done this until we turned up at the wrong hotel, totally knackered. I wrote and complained and Exped1a refunded £100 to my credit card. If they'll cough up a hundred quid for a few blocks of inconvenience, you can definitely get something out of them for this cock up.

Hope you arrived OK!

― Madchen (Madchen), Friday, 3 September 2004 11:54 (twenty-one years ago)

If this is like "24", Mrs "." is currently being menaced by a cougar.

― Dan Perry '08 (Dan Perry), Friday, 3 September 2004 12:57 (twenty-one years ago)

THIS THREAD FOR PRESIDENT.

― mcd (mcd), Friday, 3 September 2004 13:32 (twenty-one years ago)

HI WE ARE BOTH IN THE UK! :)

― adam. (nordicskilla), Friday, 3 September 2004 18:01 (twenty-one years ago)

The passport office is GOOD.

― adam. (nordicskilla), Friday, 3 September 2004 18:02 (twenty-one years ago)

WOO!!

(alternate DVD ending now plz)

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 3 September 2004 18:02 (twenty-one years ago)

YAYAYAYAYAY! Now I hope they let y'all back in when you come back.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 3 September 2004 18:02 (twenty-one years ago)

haha PASSPORTS 2: THE VOYAGE HOME WITHOUT THE BAG FROM THE DUTY-FREE SHOP

have fun over there

― jones (actual), Friday, 3 September 2004 18:06 (twenty-one years ago)

YAYA!! I AM SO RELIEEEEVED.

― Towelette Pettatucci (Homosexual II), Friday, 3 September 2004 18:12 (twenty-one years ago)

ADAM BRING ME BACK TOBLERONE PLS THX BY

― dean? (deangulberry), Friday, 3 September 2004 18:14 (twenty-one years ago)

amazing!!! great news

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 3 September 2004 18:17 (twenty-one years ago)

yayyyyyy!

― luna (luna.c), Friday, 3 September 2004 18:28 (twenty-one years ago)

B-b-but what about the cougar???

― Dan Perry '08 (Dan Perry), Friday, 3 September 2004 18:29 (twenty-one years ago)

hahaha I'm in NYC and just saw this now. finding an internet cafe here is impossible. Adam you are cursed. I'm glad you're in London though.

― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 3 September 2004 19:14 (twenty-one years ago)

AWESOME!

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 3 September 2004 19:30 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm so glad this had a happy ending!

― Leon Czolgosz (Nicole), Friday, 3 September 2004 19:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Btw I am completely serious about Ned & Spencer trying out for the Amazing Race.

― Leon Czolgosz (Nicole), Friday, 3 September 2004 19:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Hey, I'm ALL for that. Spencer, whenever you read this...

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 3 September 2004 19:49 (twenty-one years ago)

(And of course hurrah for Adam and Sarah! Now, let us plot the death of Expedia.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 3 September 2004 19:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Ned, do you think we'd kill each other???

and YAY for Adam and Sarah!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 3 September 2004 19:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Ned, do you think we'd kill each other???

Don't be ridiculous. WE'LL KILL EVERYONE ELSE.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 3 September 2004 19:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Ned, will you do all the crazy stunts??? If so, let's sign up!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 3 September 2004 19:53 (twenty-one years ago)

My unique plan will involve a creative body double.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 3 September 2004 19:53 (twenty-one years ago)

I now really, really, REALLY want to see Ned eat two pounds of caviar.

(Spence, if Ned is a no-go I'll definitely teram up with you.)

― Dan Perry '08 (Dan Perry), Friday, 3 September 2004 20:28 (twenty-one years ago)

(I'll even TEAM up with you!)

― Dan Perry '08 (Dan Perry), Friday, 3 September 2004 20:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Wait, two pounds of caviar? Tell me where the down side is to this, that's a reward.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 3 September 2004 20:52 (twenty-one years ago)

hey adam did you still get screwed on the ticket?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 3 September 2004 21:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Yay! :-) Most stressful thread ever, though.

This flipped me out so much I have now gone & checked on the location of my passport for my trip in 6 weeks: still have it. still valid. Not that I have hotels in Geneva or Paris or train tickets between the two yet. :-P

― lyra (lyra), Saturday, 4 September 2004 03:18 (twenty years ago)

Btw I am completely serious about Ned & Spencer trying out for the Amazing Race.

Harrumph... JBR and I would trounce anyone here on the Amazing Race, including the caviar.

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Saturday, 4 September 2004 04:51 (twenty years ago)

The four of us will just have to have a caviar eating competition. OH DARN.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 4 September 2004 05:03 (twenty years ago)

My money's on the passport being in the car's glove compartment, put there (for safekeeping!) when they left the DMV. Or maybe left at the DMV.

― nickn (nickn), Saturday, 4 September 2004 05:45 (twenty years ago)

So if Ned and Spencer go on the Amazing Race, how will they label your relationship? "Internet friends"?

― Maria D. (Maria D.), Saturday, 4 September 2004 14:32 (twenty years ago)

Oh, you're both DJs, right?

― Maria D. (Maria D.), Saturday, 4 September 2004 14:35 (twenty years ago)

Way to go, adam!!! I've got several stories along these lines, but I don't think any of them worked out this well.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Saturday, 4 September 2004 15:28 (twenty years ago)

Don't beat yourself up, Tracer. I like you being over here.

― Alba (Alba), Saturday, 4 September 2004 15:30 (twenty years ago)

Oh, you're both DJs, right?

Hmm. "Men About Town"

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 4 September 2004 15:34 (twenty years ago)

Oh, I'm glad there was a happy ending!

Sorry I won't get to meet you this time Adam :(

― jel -- (jel), Saturday, 4 September 2004 15:39 (twenty years ago)

"fancy men"

― s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 4 September 2004 15:55 (twenty years ago)

"ILXORZ"

― nickn (nickn), Saturday, 4 September 2004 22:55 (twenty years ago)

But Ned, what if you had to shave your head for the fast forward?

― rainy (rainy), Saturday, 4 September 2004 22:59 (twenty years ago)

When my brother was going on holiday last year, he totally couldn't find his passport and ended up going to the South of England rather than Spain. What had happened was that he had taken it to his bank some months before and THEY HAD PUT IN THEIR SAFE. Fools. Didn't they think he might want it back? They had handed him all his papers and stuff, so he assumed his passport was in there as well and thought no more about it. He never remembered until after he had cancelled his flights. But what sort of bank muppet doesn't go "oh, Mr R*** left his passport here, let's phone him and tell him because it's the sort of thing he wouldn't want to lose", instead going "I know, I'll not bother mentioning it to him, I'll just put it in the safe and forget about it for six months". Twunts.

(hurrah that this scenario worked out better for mr and mrs adam)

― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 4 September 2004 23:26 (twenty years ago)

i'm pretty sure i've lost my passport. i think i lost it in the airport. i'm not going anywhere soon, but i should really do something about it. apparently al quaeda are specifically looking for south african passports, with US and euro connections. mine's got both. and my lastname's rather arabic-sounding. if any upcoming terror is blamed on a mitch, i'm posting this so as to clear my name. or do i now seem MORE suspicious?

― m. (mitchlnw), Saturday, 4 September 2004 23:27 (twenty years ago)

"lastnamewithheld" is arabic sounding?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 5 September 2004 00:50 (twenty years ago)

it's all down to the inflection.

― m. (mitchlnw), Sunday, 5 September 2004 01:43 (twenty years ago)

six months pass...

yes, thats right, its my turn now:(

i have till wednesday. they wont issue a replacement before then. so i have 5 days to find it.

i think i threw it away by mistake

― charltonlido (gareth), Friday, 18 March 2005 10:56 (twenty years ago)

Jesus, well at least this thread tells you how to go about getting a new one.

― kate/thank you friendly cloud (papa november), Friday, 18 March 2005 11:13 (twenty years ago)

i found it!

― charltonlido (gareth), Monday, 21 March 2005 13:09 (twenty years ago)

Back when I worked as a library shelver: one day, going round the stacks, I picked a book off my trolley and a passport fell out. Ten minutes later, I was back at the service desk, and this woman comes up:

"Um, this probably sounds a bit stupid, but..."

"You were using your passport as a bookmark and returned it by mistake?"

"How did you guess?!"

― caitlin (caitlin), Monday, 21 March 2005 13:13 (twenty years ago)

once had a brand new passport turned back at the door by idiot landlord's idiot friends when the postie asked for a signature for the recorded delivery, two weeks before a flight to america for which i'd already bought tickets. spent the entire next day trying to get through to passport office. the irony being that if i hadn't paid the extra for recorded delivery everything would've gone a lot smoother.

― koogs (koogs), Monday, 21 March 2005 13:58 (twenty years ago)

five months pass...

We NEVER found it, you know.

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Monday, 22 August 2005 16:37 (twenty years ago)

Mine never turned up either. Not even after I cleared out my whole studio to move.

― Mary (Mary), Monday, 22 August 2005 19:43 (twenty years ago)

It's been sold to terrorists you know

― Frankist Swedheadium, Monday, 22 August 2005 22:28 (twenty years ago)

If there are terrorists that really look like my wife and can use her passport, they are the most wonderful terrorists ever!

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Monday, 22 August 2005 22:30 (twenty years ago)

Does your wife have a beard?

― Frankist Swedheadium, Monday, 22 August 2005 22:35 (twenty years ago)

actually, no

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Monday, 22 August 2005 22:36 (twenty years ago)

Staple your passports to yourselves now, while you can still find them

― beanz (beanz), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 16:02 (twenty years ago)

I'm still thinking about trying out for The Amazing Race!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 16:14 (twenty years ago)

Ned? Dan?

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 16:14 (twenty years ago)

http://lostlinks.net/images/oceanicair/passport.jpg

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 16:15 (twenty years ago)

I reported mine lost so that the terrorists could not appropriate it; not sure if the INS or whatever it's called these days capably got the message.

― Mary (Mary), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 00:59 (twenty years ago)

two years pass...

Someone stole my passport out of my car at last year's Boomsday.

― roxymuzak, Monday, 3 September 2007 18:44 (eighteen years ago)

fuck a boomsday

― Tracer Hand, Monday, 3 September 2007 18:58 (eighteen years ago)

This thread is reminding me that I need to get a new passport before I skip the country in a couple of weeks. Shit, have I left it too late?

― The Real Dirty Vicar, Monday, 3 September 2007 19:37 (eighteen years ago)

!!!

― Rock Hardy, Monday, 3 September 2007 19:58 (eighteen years ago)

If you do it in person at the passport office it's pretty quick, mine arrived within the week. You should do it now though. Do it now!!!

― ledge, Monday, 3 September 2007 20:11 (eighteen years ago)

... it ain't cheap though.

― ledge, Monday, 3 September 2007 20:11 (eighteen years ago)

I've lost mine twice in the last five years. IDIOT. Best was when there was no way I could get a new one in time - but it had been recently renewed and I found out that you can travel on a cancelled or expired passport if it expired less than a year ago, or something. So I swanned around with my old, obviously cancelled passport with a huge chunk snipped off the corner. No-one batted an eye except for one woman who nearly didn't let me back out of Spain but then thought "ah fuck it".

― ledge, Monday, 3 September 2007 20:18 (eighteen years ago)

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