We aren’t even off the ground yet…
June 16th, 2005 | Published in | 3 Comments
So we were in the Wainwrights last night for the pub quiz, and I noticed something on Steve-o’s name tag (he works there), it reads “Steven Heyns.” I thought, “that’s an odd misspelling of Haynes” but it wasn’t a misspelling, thats how those kerrazy South Africans spell it, or at least how Steve spells it. This wouldn’t regularly cause a problem except Steve is coming to Amsterdam with us, and I’m guessing that he “ain’t getting on no plane” if it’s spelt differently to his passport.
So this afternoon (me? in the morning? nope) I rang up KLM and was put through to a schmooth-sounding Dutchman, I know I’m enforcing stereotypes here, but frankly, those Dutch aren’t helping themselves. Anywho, the upshot of it all is that I have to fax a copy of Steve’s passport to Holland, so that they know who he is. I find this slightly odd, since we didn’t have anything to do with passports when we made the initial booking, yet now we do, but its their rules so what can I do.
Is it clear that I was really stretching things to write about for this post just to maintain regularity?
November 30th, 1999 at 12:00 am (#)
I’m confused as to why there was a problem (you may have forgotten to put it in)…
Is it because stupid officials always misspell names?
November 30th, 1999 at 12:00 am (#)
No, it’s because I’m stupid and put in “haynes” thinking that was the way you spelt it when we were booking the flights on the internet, because steve wasn’t with us when we made the booking. I guess I didn’t make it all that obviously that it needed to be changed for him to be able to go on holiday at all.
September 3rd, 2005 at 2:26 pm (#)
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