He didnt just forget the toothbrush...he forgot the suitcase

Voyager2002

LEJC wrote: »

OK.. so son has gone away for the week with friends on holiday and it seemed an ideal opportunity to spend a few nights away ourselves...

Hubby finds a cheap deal booked at a really good deal,manages to get the time off work and so I rush round packing a suitcase ready for our few days away...

Arrive at destination get out of the car and tell him to bring the bags up whilst I check in...
now you would think that seen as I spent time packing the bag he could have at least picked it up off the bed and put it in the car...5 hours away from home and he now tells me he thought I put it in the car!

So our cheap break has worked out not so cheap when you factor in the the fact that both of now have just the clothes we stand up in to last the rest of the week...

Anyone else found that their cheap bargain suddenly became a little more hassle and expensive than you planned?

I guess my consolation is when I get home i'll have some clean clothes to wear...that are neatly packed and waiting
Share your stories and help keep me from throttling him!!!

Brilliant: you now have the perfect excuse for getting at least one complete new outfit!

I did something rather worse... it was our first family trip to New York; we took National Express to Heathrow; traffic was bad so we had to rush to get from bus-stop to Check-in desk. Perhaps that explains what happened... we arrived at check-in only for me to find that my briefcase, containing all our passports and air tickets, was missing. The obvious assumption was that it had been stolen, and the airline staff (Virgin) allowed us to use their telephone to call the police, our hosts in New York, and various others... Then, just as the flight had gone, a woman turned up with the missing briefcase, complete with contents. It seems that it had just been forgotten somewhere; she had opened it and seen the Virgin air tickets and made numerous attempts to telephone them, but there was no reply.

Our insurance paid for a nice hotel in London, and we flew out the next day.

dibuzz

LEJC wrote: »

OK.. so son has gone away for the week with friends on holiday

I was really expecting you to say your son has forgotten his case and you were wondering how to get it to him :rotfl:

notanewuser

It's my mum and dad's wedding anniversary this week.

On their wedding day my dad forgot to put the suitcases in the car for their honeymoon. They drove from wedding in Essex, to ferry in West Wales, overnight to Ireland, and then discovered that they only had his wedding suit and her wedding dress with them! How it's lasted almost 40 years is beyond me!!! :rotfl:

jackomdj

A friend was coming to visit with her 6 week old baby. About an hour before they were due to arrive they phoned and said "we have remembered the baby" they had forgotten his bag, so the two men had to go shopping for a long weekends worth of items for him.

sweetilemon

Awww so annoying, just not the same without your things. I agreed to work away for a weekend for a bit of overtime, got to where I park my car only to burst 2 tyres on a pot hole. The cost of 2 tyres was as much as my O/T money and I still had to go and work, sort it out when I got back.

luxor4t

ska_lover wrote: »

I feel like i've stumbled into a thread started in the 1940's..mens jobs and womens jobs...really? Myself and every single female I know would never pull the pathetic female routine to get bins emptied etc..I could never be friends with a female who behaved like that

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Oh well, another potential friendship nipped in the bud :rotfl:


"Pathetic female routine"? oh no, not having lived through the 60s and 70s when women were legally discriminated against.

However, we have 'his' and 'hers' jobs and always have, even before I developed rheumatoid arthritis and could not lift/carry anything heavy. It works for us.

Spirit_2

We arrived for a 2 night stay in a Chateau in the Loire. It was fabulous, a fairy tale location. Very romantic.

They were not expecting us. Mr S got out the booking paperwork and confidently brandished it. He had booked us in for the wrong dates. Everywhere was full, it was late, and we spent the night in bunk beds in monastic cells (in a real monastery) that took us in and gave us B&B.

shariatlanta

Earlier this year we booked a week away to the Lake District, unfortunately due to the bad weather we had to cancel so our children paid for us to spend a night in a hotel in Kensington, the following day we were going to visit the Ideal Home Exhibition.
We duly left at around 10 with me carrying the overnight bag with our stuff in, got to the tube station and just as the train pulled away from the platform I realised I'd left the bag on the platform, we got off at the next stop but it was too late, the staff phoned the station but it was gone.
Cue a visit to the nearest Primark but it's not until your bag is gone do you realise just how much was in it including my DH's
medication, luckily we were only away for one night and he was very understanding, me I felt like a complete idiot.

meritaten

a couple of years back we hired a caravan for a week - and as usual we cleaned the 'van thoroughly before leaving. I distinctly remember telling OH to clear our stuff out of the shower room and pack it in the 'pink suitcase'. we got halfway home when OH looked at me and said 'did you pick up your makeup and stuff from the bathroom'? jeez - furious row ensued for the next half hour - and he had to replace my makeup and hairdryer and perfume! so I empathise hun - I really do..............aren't they any shops where you are? I would at least make him buy me a 'capsule' wardrobe!
lol - on the way down to that week away he pulled in for fuel and found he had left his plastic at home! we had to phone son with the key - tell him where card was stashed and read off the info - so OH could go into the bank and make cash withdrawals the old-fashioned way! lmao - I had to go with him to show him how to do it!

(I had to pay for the fuel on MY card - OH doesn't carry cash! and I had very little cash on me)

seven-day-weekend

Thriftygifty wrote: »

I use to work at a holiday park as the evening receptionist, a man checked himself in and I think his family and then came back and said he had forgotten to pack the tent :eek::eek::eek: lol he had everything else. He asked if it would be alright if they slept in the car that evening. Not sure what the outcome of that one was but felt sorry for him but found it funny as well poor man, luckily he saw the funny side of it!

We did the very same when we were first married in the early '70s, went camping and forgot the tent . We slept in our car on Brean Down for a week.