Please make me feel better

[Anonomom]

Ugh, I feel like an idiot right now. About a week ago, we decided to fly to WDW instead of driving this year. We'd been watching Southwest's Dings for a month and finally realized that we wouldn't be getting a lower fare, so we booked.

Fast forward to today, when I got the ding I'd been waiting for! I could save $78 because there was a Ding for our return day!!! I immediately called Southwest, cancelled our original flight and booked the Ding.

Then I realized that what I'd actually done was book us a second flight from home to Disney, rather than the disney-to-home flight I needed. And yes, I made this mistake even though the "new" flight was at a slightly different time than the old one. I thought it seemed odd that the flight I was booking was different from my original flight by 15 minutes -- I just figured maybe they'd added a new flight, too (stupid, stupid, stupid!!!)

Thankfully, I was able to call Southwest back and they let me go back to my original itinerary. Unfortunately, the fare had gone up since we'd booked, so instead of saving $78, I ended up paying an additional $30.

(I should state that the Southwest agent I spoke to to gtry to get everything back the way it was could not have been nicer. She couldn't get me her old fare, but she was still quite gracious and helpful.)

I know $30 isn't much in the scheme of things, but I kind of feel sick. This was a big, stupid, unneccessary mistake. I can't believe I acted like such a moron.

Please tell me you've made similar mistakes and what I did isn't all that bad.

 

[tiggspring]

I didn't make a mistake on WDW vaca but made big one with my phone. I was trying to save $25 mo on my land line. Changed my all inclusive rate to basic intending to use my cel. I forgot my computer sometimes used an out of area number. I got a one month bill for nearly $1000 aaaah!!!! They were very kind at verizon and gave me there cheapest alcart rate but I still paid $250!!!!. Cut yourself a break it happens to all of us. If you are renting a car stop at a market and buy your H20 or soda for the parks. Walmart has $1 clips in camping to hold these bottles. Our fam of five saved $220 doing this. That should make you feel better!

 

[alyssa810]

I screwed up a rebooking with credits once that cost us about $100. my husband screwed up a booking once we he and my parents were flying down on a 3pm (ish) flight, and I was booked on the 12:30 flight. I found out the day before when I was going to print out our boarding passes and it was a few minutes before 3 and my pass was available. I was PEEE OWED! I ended up rebooking on the same flight as my family at the full $287 (or whatever it was, less the cost of my ticket- my husband paid for that one since he was the one who did all the bookings) and then I didnt opt for the business select for an additional $20 so I could have boarded first and gotten an extra half point (which would have been totally worth it). It was a frustrating start to our trip but we can laugh about it now. Ha ha.