I'm glad you made the flight
The worst thing I have ever done was when we were going to Turkey.
The taxi arrived so we all got in and just as we got out of the estate I realised that I had left all the spending on the side . Luckily the taxi driver was fine with going back and we made the flight but it did give me a shock when I looked in my bag and realised the money wasn't there.
We all must make mistakes when the taxi comes

Last year coming back from Croatia we got a taxi to the airport and when we went into the departure area John realized that he had left his bum bag in the taxi which had our flight tickets, money and his passport panic set in but luckily the taxi driver was very friendly and distinctive so we spoke to the other drivers at the airport who knew him and one of them phoned him and he turned back, the bag was lying were he left it, what a relief.

Linda

18 months ago we bought 2 Samsonite rigid cases. We arrived in Kalkan, Turkey in the early hours only to discover that I'd brought the key for one case only! As they were new (and not cheap!) OH didn't want to force the locks, so my name was !

After severals phone calls the following day to the shop back home, they arranged for replacement keys to be sent to the only Samsonite retailer close by, 3 days later - in Antalya, which was about a 3 hour drive!

On the bright side, we (sorry that should be I!) always pack some of each of our clothes in both cases, so OH didn't have to wear my undies.

I am never going to get to live it down!

Couldn't possibly quote OH's reaction

Sorry that made me laugh helen, bet I can guess what it was along the lines of though

I've never done anything that dreadful on holiday, but my worst ever moment came on my daughters birthday. I had booked (at horrendous cost) a number of tickets to take her and 10 pals to the theatre to see West Side Story. The kids all arrived, very excited at 5.30 pm and I got the tickets out of the safe, where I'd placed them many months before...only to find I'd booked, and missed, a matinee performance!!!

I still have nightmares 11 years later!

Kayley that must have been awful for you.

Well one time I'm trying to live down was on my Daughter's Birthday in August this year, we took her and some friends to the pics and then to pizza hut, we had to take two separate car's so I was following Hubby. We got to the junction and Hubby didn't go only I thought he had so I smashed straight into the back of him . That was on the Saturday before we were due to fly out to Majorca early on Monday morning so all the telephoning to the insurers etc had to be done in the airport on the Monday morning and at the resort. I only did £2000 worth of damage to Hubby's car but it's all sorted now, mines going in on Monday.

We went to majorca about 10 years ago and I forgot to pack hubby any shorts at all!! Well that teached him to help a lttle with the packing!!LOL!!

I'm getting stressed out just reading all these mishaps! Just goes to show how stressful holidays and birthday parties can be!

Kayley, that must have been awful! How did you cope with all those disappointed girls? I remember one birthday party when I miscalculated the number of party boxes I needed. My husband was videoing the whole party and all of a sudden you see my face when I realise we haven't got enough

We went to majorca about 10 years ago and I forgot to pack hubby any shorts at all!!

I did the same when I went to Fuerteventura a few years ago, not one pair of shorts in my case. They were all neatly piled on my bed at home!

I never packed for my husband, he has a pair of hands

I'm another who's had a 'blonde' moment. I always use two purses on holiday, one for English money and the other for foreign. Queued up at Tunis airport Bureau de Change to change a bit of cash to start with for the taxi to the station and train fare, put it in my 'foreign' purse then walked away, leaving the other purse with the rest of my sterling on the counter. I didn't realise until I got to the hotel in Sousse where the manaqer rang Tunis but of course they had no knowledge of it. Luckilly I had credit cards with me so I could get cash at the ATMs. Couldn't get a police report at Sousse for the insurance as it had happened in Tunis. Went to the airport police on the way back and they gave me a report which my insurers luckilly accepted.

Many years ago now, we went on holiday to Butlins Bognor Regis. I did all the packing as usual for OH, myself and two children. Asked hubby if he'd loaded the 2 cases into the car and he said yes. Imagine my horror when we got there (fair old drive from Wales) when only one case and a small holdall emerged from the boot. Needless to say the other case with all of his and one of the boys' clothes was sitting on the bed when we got home a fortnight later. Hubby still insists that the small holdall counted as a case as far as he's concerned and it was all my fault. I made such a fuss he offered to drive all the way back to get it. I calmed down and bought a couple of pairs of shorts and t-shirts each for them. The upside was, much less washing.

I think the best one we had was when we went to c'an picafort in majorca. we had hired a car and decided to go to palma. Now our youngest was only 18 months at the time and needed a buggy. i always struggled to close it and oftn left it for hubby to do. bet you can guess whats coming!!! half way there i said quite casually, did you put the buggy in? lots of later we turned around and went all the back to find it still sitting in the hotel car park. oopps.

Claire

My neighbour and her family went to Cuba and when they got to Manchester airport from Leeds, she realised that she had left her suit case in the lounge at home There was no time to go back so she had to buy the bare minimum in Manchester airport. She couldn't borrow much from her daughters as she is about a size 14- 16 and her daughters are a size 10 and 20 so just had to make do for the entire fortnight.
On her return, she talked her husband in to letting her go to Benidorm for a few days to wear all the new unworn clothes that she had bought for Cuba. I met up with her and her daughter as I was there at the same time. She only went for 5 days but was over weight and had to pay excess luggage because of all the clothes that she took.

Sue

We were staying at a hotel in Playa Blanca, Lanzarote. We went onto the balcony to check the view, and I closed the patio door behind me, unfortunately, it was self locking! Very luckily, a maid walking by saw us and got the pass key to let us back in our room. The comments from my wife and daughter were unprintable!

Lol, well I've been reading these and having a right old chuckle. So here's me going to tell you the daftest thing I've ever done in all my life!
In the early 90's we lived just over the frontier from Gibraltar for a few years as OH was working in Gib. I'd gone back to the UK to visit and the only flight I could get back was club class with GB airways from Manchester. In the VIP lounge the receptionist informed me that the flight was delayed, and would keep me updated. Anyway there were some Spanish guys in there who were part of a football team, and they told me that their flight was delayed also.We were all helping ourselves to the free drinks, lol and after about 3 hours, I was well gone..... .
The receptionist came up and said the flight was ready to board (at last) so off we all went. Been on the plane about 40mins when the captain starts his usual, what the weather is like in Malaga how long we will take, when through my addled brain one word penetrates........MALAGA! Eeeek I'm going to Gibraltar. Not on this aircraft the attendant assures me, this is the Malaga flight! Well why did you let me on then?? Horror on her face she left and came back 30 mins later to tell me a taxi would take me to Gib, and did I know that the flight to Gib was looking for me?
Shame I can tell you! In those days they just tore your boarding card and kept the other bit, but I would have thought that they checked them all before setting off, but I should have been told the correct gate too. My fault I admit, what a showing up. When I got to Gib OH is there, arms folded, face like thunder, and he says........your luggage arrived ages ago, what the heck happend??
He still says now when we go away, no drinking, and the gates over there!
I did get an apology, and it was put down to human error. Linda

These stories are nothing compared to what I've seen on tv!!!

Four times (count them) FOUR TIMES a family left their little boy at home and went on holiday!!!! An American family it was! Luckily the boy had some clout about him because each time his house was nearly burgled! He'd set up all these traps for the burglars and have the sound from the tv on to make it sound like he was firing shots at them! One of the burglars tries to pass himself off as a Goodfellow but we all know he carries a Lethal Weapon!
Unbellievable it was!
Keep a look out for the program cos I think it might be on sometime over Christmas!!!

Ha! Ha! Chivas, what a good sense of humour you have

I wouldn't say that our 6 year old watched these films often but he knows part 1 and 2 mostly word for word , it's comical watching him, perhaps he should become an actor, I'm sure that he'd have no problems remembering his lines.

Sue

lol, I'm glad you got it Sue, I was a bit worried about whether I'd given enough info!

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