So I’m retarded but you already knew that. Luckily my stupidity paid off in the end.

Wednesday, the wife and I were off to Japan. We made it to the bus despite a cab driver that deserved a beating. My beloved was ready to open a can of whoop-ass on him but we got out of the cab and the airport bus pulled up seconds later.

We arrive at Incheon go to check in and the staff looks at my ticket and goes “This is for Thursday” At this point I hear a bell in my head; “ding…” WTF… I looked at the ticket and yes, it is for Thursday but it’s not computing. “ding…” I guess I only looked at the flight number and missed that the date was wrong when I changed the flight. “DING! DING! DING!”

Me: “well, this is a mistake but we can change it right?”
JAL: “um, no”
Me: “look, I need to be on this flight, I’ll buy a new ticket to Japan if I have to”
JAL: “you’ll need to purchase a new ticket to Vancouver as well; the tickets were purchased together”
Me: *more dinging, the voice in my head goes nuts and a vein in my forehead starts to throb* “what? why? I paid for a layover in Japan. Can I get a refund on the old tickets?”

Cursing my stupidity, we go to the ticket counter only to be told that my original ticket is not refundable. I’m now standing there tapping my Visa and JAL cards on the counter and literally biting my tounge so as not to be arrested. Luckily MiHwa was able to talk to the clerk in Korean and all of a sudden everything is fine. Not knowing what MiHwa had said, we run back to check in again and indeed, everything seems ok. I guess they’ll take my Thursday ticket. Don’t know why and I really don’t care. “Let’s get the hell outta here”

Totally relieved, we start to turn away when the clerk comes running over and I figure the jig is up. She asks for our boarding passes back. I feel the vein in my forehead throb. What’s this? Upgrade? To Executive class?

Turns out my lovely wife explained that she had just married a moron and that we were leaving for our honeymoon in Japan. Heartstrings tugged and we were living large.

It was fabulous… These podlike seats that totally reclined like the finest LazyBoy. And the food… Oh my God, the food was so much better. Everything was better except that were weren’t sitting next to each other.

So in the end it all turned out better than we thought but the stress really wasn’t worth it. Oddly, the wife still loves me :)