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We're leaving for a trip next week and have had the tickets for months. We thought they were all safe and sound and in one place. A week before we leave, my partner (wisely) decides to double check. They are gone.
Key the frantic search and tearing the house apart only to find nothing.
So she calls the place where she got the tickets. After much messing around, hours on hold, calling Olympic Airlines herself and being told it's not their stupid policy but the original agency's and maybe she should have a nice cup of tea to soothe herself, she gets a final answer. No e-tickets, need the paper copies. They will not refund them upfront and will not give us new copies. We are required to buy a new set of tickets, go on the trip, return, and prove to them that the first set were not used fraudulently, and then they will be happy to refund the money. Maybe. Possibly.
She was seriously temped to do just that but, at the last minute, told our children, "$20 to whoever finds them," just to see if they could do what we had not.
They did.
Our eldest found them slid down and trapped in this wicker wall thing we got for our mail. We couldn't see them for our height, but he could from his. One, "Where did you last see them, mommy?" and a tiny wrist later, and we have our tickets and he has a twenty. We also took both boys out to dinner and let the youngest have the chocolate bar he found in his search.
Does this count as bribery, or positive reinforcement?
Key the frantic search and tearing the house apart only to find nothing.
So she calls the place where she got the tickets. After much messing around, hours on hold, calling Olympic Airlines herself and being told it's not their stupid policy but the original agency's and maybe she should have a nice cup of tea to soothe herself, she gets a final answer. No e-tickets, need the paper copies. They will not refund them upfront and will not give us new copies. We are required to buy a new set of tickets, go on the trip, return, and prove to them that the first set were not used fraudulently, and then they will be happy to refund the money. Maybe. Possibly.
She was seriously temped to do just that but, at the last minute, told our children, "$20 to whoever finds them," just to see if they could do what we had not.
They did.
Our eldest found them slid down and trapped in this wicker wall thing we got for our mail. We couldn't see them for our height, but he could from his. One, "Where did you last see them, mommy?" and a tiny wrist later, and we have our tickets and he has a twenty. We also took both boys out to dinner and let the youngest have the chocolate bar he found in his search.
Does this count as bribery, or positive reinforcement?
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