15.05.10--I hate Orbitz

Step 1: Book international tickets through Orbitz.

Step 2: Get an email from them four days before you leaving informing you of a change in your travel itinerary.

Step 3: Stress out and call all your responsibly family members to no avail.

Step 4: Call Orbitz twice and have the call dropped.

Step 5: Call and get through to a real person after waiting for five minutes on hold, then trying to understand their poor English.

Step 6: Alternatively go on hold and attempt to change your travel dates, only to have the person say they can't do anything without calling British Airways, which would require a 2 hour hold, since BA has a strike going on.

Step 7: Call the next morning, only to find out that BA is closed for the weekend, but you can have your full refund.

Step 9: Your dad books you a second flight to and from Europe from AAA.

Step 10: Call after work, to discover you can't have your full refund, according to Frankie, whose first language is English.

Step 11: Your Dad calls and bitches, waits on hold for 40 minutes to figure out the refund, which you are advised to call Monday when that office is open.

Step 12: Write a nasty report to several government agencies who deal with this crap.

Moral of the story: DO NOT BOOK ANY FLIGHTS OR ANYTHING WITH ORBITZ!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This concludes my story on my plan tickets to Germany. On the brighter side, I have motorcycle rain boots. So there.