I thought Helen T might have mentioned this but I can't find it anywhere. Looking forward to hearing your stories about turning up at the airport without your passport and what you did about it. This happened to my bil on this year's Easter holiday. The scenario....
Hubby (driver) and bil dropped off sis (Helen T) and I outside departures whilst they went to park the car. We wheeled in the cases and Helen told her OH not to forget to bring his flightbag (he's hard of hearing). Off we went to the front of the check-in desk (hadn't opened yet), chatting excitedly. When the men got back she asked her hubby to hand me their passports and tickets so the four of us could check-in together. He thought she was setting him up so he laughed and said that she had the bag (he kept looking behind her to see if she was hiding it. Once he realised she wasn't joking, his face was a picture Anyway, it turns out that he thought she'd brought it from home and vice versa. I can tell you it wasn't very funny at the time as we'd driven almost an hour and a half to get to the airport. The men were going to have to dash all the way back home and just hope that they'd make it back before check-in closed. To cut a long story short, they phoned their daughter who luckily was at home and had a spare key. She met them half way and they arrived back with time to spare. The thing is as soon as we picked them up from home, I asked sis who was seated in the back with me, if she had the passports and tickets and she said yes, they're in hubby's flight bag. Her hubby, sitting in the front and being hard of hearing didn't hear this.
He says he's going to sleep with the flight bag around his neck the night before we go to Gatwick in August as that's a 4 hour plus journey away ...and sis has always said how stupid can people be, forgetting their passport at home. Now she knows
Any funny (or not so funny) stories.
I usually travel on my own anyway but if I was travelling with someone else then I would take charge of the tickets and passports anyway - I have a need to be in control of these things.
I always forget something mind you but figure if I have those 3 things then anything else is no big deal.
I would take charge of the tickets and passports anyway - I have a need to be in control of these things.
Same here SandC. There's no way anybody else is getting hold of our passports and tickets - not even hubby!!
as above i keep checking every 5 minutes. must be a sign of madness
I spend the entire journey up to the airport checking that I have tickets/passports/travellers cheques/credit cards. I check my bag so often that my other half tells me off because the sound of the zips being open and closed really annoys him.
But yes I do check several times the evening before travel then the next morning I am still checking every 10 minutes that its all still there.
Oh well happy holidays, it makes it all worth while when you get there .
Oh thank you, thank you, thank you. I thought it was only me who can't help but to keep pearing in the flight bag checking over and over. I get to the stage where I think I don't care about anything else as long as those precious items are there
Im like others, I wouldnt be able to relax if someone else was looking after the important stuff. Its me or noone Im afraid. The only person to blame if things go wrong would be me then.
I did leave my crutch in the car once (I have walking difficulties) when being dropped off at the airport by my daughter in law who was in a hurry to get back before the M25 became a car park. I ended up paying a small fortune for a stick in Italy. Now I collapse it and stick it to the side of the packed case with masking tape.
I became more paranoid when one year, having promised my other half that I would buy lunch, I realised half way through the meal that I didn't remember seeing my credit cards/debit card in my bag except for a few euros and travellers cheques. When I checked, I had forgotten to put them in my bag. I was blinking angry with myself. Rather than use up the small amount of sterling I had on me, o.h. paid for the meal. My week away was a bit disappointing for me because I saw loads of lovely things I could have bought with my cards but couldn't. My o.h. was pleased but I wasn't.
I only carry my own passport and ticket and the other half carries his own passport and ticket. I would never let anyone else take charge of them for me.
I won't even let hubby take charge of his own because if he loses his, there's no way I'd go on my own I pack my hand luggage a day or two before and check that the important stuff are still there the night before. I'll check again just before leaving for the airport and once on the journey. I make myself not check again just in case they fall out with all the checking Vicjayhay, I also can't relax immediately after check-in as with all the excitement I'm worried I've put them somewhere different and won't be able to find them
To recap then, so far nobody's actually arrived at the airport without their passports Apart from Helen T's hubby of course. You wait till I tell him
SandC wrote:I'm fastidious in the 'tickets, money, passport' ritual..... if I was travelling with someone else then I would take charge of the tickets and passports anyway - I have a need to be in control of these things..... I always forget something mind you but figure if I have those 3 things then anything else is no big deal.
Sounds like me - while running round the house, locking doors/windows, setting light/video timers, turning off taps/sockets etc I chant to myself "tickets, money, passport, tickets, money, passport" and keep going back to check my hand luggage. I check it again several times in the taxi to the airport and right through the airport until I'm on the plane It's true though, as long as you have those three things everything will be okay - as long as you have tickets and passports you can still have your holiday, and as long as you have money/cards you can buy anything else you've forgotten!
I made my father check he had his passport when travelling to France last month before we left, I can't trust my father to remember anything lol I myself am a check, check, check type of person.
we have a travel wallet in it stays out copy of insurance and passports, then i we book the holiday i put the confirmations in the wallet followed by copies of OH's prescriptions then when they arrive the flight tickets and accommodation and transfer vouchers [if separate] all have their own little compartment except the prescriptions which go in the travel money section as i have a separate wallet for foreign currency, the last thing i do before we travel is check everything is in the wallet and i put my driving licence and plastic in the wallet then both go in the flight bag... touch wood never forgotten anything and hopefully shouldn't
I am the wife of the guilty party Never again will he be left in charge of anything as important. After all the times we've watched that "Airport" programme & thought people who turned up without their passports were crazy. Thank goodness that we always get to check in really early, otherwise there would have been 2 less on the plane
even on the way to the airport i must check my bag 3 or 4 times just to make sure they are still there tho god knows where they would've gone, i make out that imjust getting something out my bag or hubby would think ive gone doolally
I become so stressed by all the checking and rechecking that by the time we are sat on the plane, I really do need a holiday.
I thought it was only me who checked, double checked etc.
Our taxi driver always asks us before we get into car - Passports, Tickets and Money - other things can be bought if you forget but you need these essential 3 (I always add Insurance to the essential 3).
I even check while on route to the airport - sometimes more than once. Glad it is not just me.
8 weeks on Sunday and I will be checing again.
Irene
However, I would like to belatedly thank a less organised stranger who forget their passport! A couple of years ago we were flying from Birmingham to Toronto and on check in we found there would be a delay of at least 15 hours. We found out there was an Air Transat flight just a couple of hours later but this was full though the agent put on us standby saying he thought we'd be unlikely to get on. However, a couple turned up to check in and the guy had forgotten his passport so we were given their seats - turned out they were in the premium cabin so we were delighted! We were even more pleased when we found out the original flight eventually arrived into a different airport 28 hours later
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