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Your most expensive moment

Discussion in 'Anything goes' started by Songbird, Oct 5, 2007.

  1. playthrough

    playthrough Moderator Staff Member

    One of my most expensive-painful moments was in London a few years back. My wife and I scored some amazing British Airways fares and took a 10-day vacation to London and Paris. But we missed our flight home thanks to a combination of poor planning and the Gatwick "Express" train taking about 4x as long due to construction delays. We were at the airport about 45 min prior to departure, but that wasn't enough with security, etc. The unsympathetic woman at the ticket counter said we were screwed thanks to our discount tickets and that we would have to buy one-way tickets to get home. Our choices were to wait a week for a decent price, which really wasn't a choice since we burned all our vacation days for this trip, or to pony up for the next flight out to the tune of $2000-plus. My wife was a mess, I was pissed but tried to pretend it was a surprise car repair or something that you just swallow and deal with. But it was really awful after we had pulled off a very economical European vacation.
     
  2. outofplace

    outofplace Well-Known Member

    Mine was about four years ago, when my daughter was born. Trust me. THAT is an expensive day.
     
  3. HejiraHenry

    HejiraHenry Well-Known Member

    Wedding Day. But, it was worth it.
     
  4. CentralIllinoisan

    CentralIllinoisan Active Member

    $600 buy-in poker tournament, 30 minutes in ... flopped nut flush on Q-7-4 board. ... Bet, raise, re-raise, all-in ... Flush vs. set of 7s ... turn: blank ... river: 4.

    Thanks for playing.
     
  5. Wrote a $1,500 check in January for down payment on new car.

    Couldn't breathe for a while after that.
     
  6. Idaho

    Idaho Active Member

    Our second anniversary.

    Hotel was only $79 for the night. Dinner was only $40 or so. Gas to get there maybe $20.

    The baby nine months later is still costing us thousands per year.
     
  7. Hiro

    Hiro Member

    I am 75 years old.



    OK, so 25. But a house is my next big adventure, and I can't wait.
     
  8. amraeder

    amraeder Well-Known Member

    Every time I buy that plane ticket to visit the parents. There's just no cheap way to get from here to there, even with 4 layovers.
     
  9. D-3 Fan

    D-3 Fan Well-Known Member

    Most expensive moment came two days ago. Midas replaced my engine after the training chain broke off last weekend while en route to visit the family.

    The next expensive moment will be next spring when I get a new car.
     
  10. forever_town

    forever_town Well-Known Member

    Actually, I spent nearly $1,300 to fix the brakes, among other things earlier this year. That was more than what I paid to get the car in my name.
     
  11. outofplace

    outofplace Well-Known Member

    Can you have a D_B in a thread?
     
  12. imjustagirl2

    imjustagirl2 New Member

    Not on individual experiences. Unless you're Idaho.
     
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