{"id":14263,"date":"2009-03-19T09:20:26","date_gmt":"2009-03-19T15:20:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=14263"},"modified":"2009-03-19T09:20:35","modified_gmt":"2009-03-19T15:20:35","slug":"the-travellers-complaint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/03\/19\/the-travellers-complaint.html","title":{"rendered":"The traveller&#8217;s complaint"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Telegraph collects some of the most <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/travel\/travelnews\/5005618\/Aroused-elephant-tops-list-of-bizarre-holiday-grievances.html\" target=\"_blank\">unusual complaints from travelers to tour operators and travel agents<\/a>. I&#8217;m sure this will warm the cockles of everyone&#8217;s heart who rants about their own goofy customers.<\/p>\n<p>A few highlights:<\/p>\n<blockquote dir=\"ltr\" style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\">\n<p>&#8220;We bought &#8216;Ray-Ban&#8217; sunglasses for five euros (\u00a33.50) from a street trader, only to find out they were fake.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No-one told us there would be fish in the sea. The children were startled.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It took us nine hours to fly home from Jamaica to England it only took the Americans three hours to get home.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My fianc\u00e9 and I booked a twin-bedded room but we were placed in a double-bedded room. We now hold you responsible for the fact that I find myself pregnant. This would not have happened if you had put us in the room that we booked.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Blinding blends of ignorance and lack of personal responsibility. Gotta love it.<\/p>\n<p><small><\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/boingboing\/iBag\/~3\/N2nIkJRRgK8\/odd-traveler-complai.html\" target=\"_blank\">BoingBoing<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Telegraph collects some of the most unusual complaints from travelers to tour operators and travel agents. I&#8217;m sure this will warm the cockles of everyone&#8217;s heart who rants about their own goofy customers. A few highlights: &#8220;We bought &#8216;Ray-Ban&#8217; sunglasses for five euros (\u00a33.50) from a street trader, only to find out they were &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/03\/19\/the-travellers-complaint.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The traveller&#8217;s complaint&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[35,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-business","category-travel"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11701,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/07\/11\/off_to_get_kitten.html","url_meta":{"origin":14263,"position":0},"title":"Off to get Kitten","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 11-Jul-07 4:57pm","format":false,"excerpt":"She's been away from us -- and we from her -- for a week and a half now.\u00a0 Sure, it's been convenient, even fun, to have time for just...","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Parenting&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Parenting","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/personal\/parenting"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/images\/2007-05_klh.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":10874,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/06\/06\/long_meetings_looooong_me.html","url_meta":{"origin":14263,"position":1},"title":"Long meetings.  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