What can you do though? She's almost 79. Very set in a specific pattern. I don't wonder a little if her actual travel agent, back when there was one, didn't appreciate the $ she was willing to spend to get as close to her ideal as possible.alliesmama4 wrote: ↑Fri Oct 05, 2018 4:27 pmGosh Sandi if my Mom had not passed on quite a few years ago I would have thought she skipped town and moved in to your mothers house.. lol. Why do they have to make things so difficult? Sorry for the pain you have to go through to make her day a better day.
But to get to Europe, she was insisting on going to Atlanta for a layover. The layover I found was at Dulles. She didn't want to go to Dulles. I told her, for $800 in savings, you won't go to Dulles? She screamed at me in her native language (my first, so I understood ) hung up, then called me two days later and told me to book her. Through Dulles.
The neatest thing was that she wasn't sure which part of Charles de Gualle she would emerge from when she got there (so her ride, my cousin, could pick her up). I told her her gate. She said yes, but which PART of the airport is that? Do I work for the airport? Have I been there since... sometime in the 90s? No. Has the airport changed? Yes. I gave her the 800# for the airline, said call them, surely THEY know...
Airline sent her to a nice guy who spoke French like he'd been born and raised there and she had a great convo and knew which part of the airport...
Seriously, my kids are less demanding. From birth up to right now.
I'll miss her when she's gone, so I make the reservations, get yelled at, and shut up.