We were taking the overnight sleeper train down to Surat Thani, and then from Surat Thani, we'd be taking a bus to a small village that was right on the outskirts of Khao Sok, one of Thailand's famous rain forest National Parks!
Everything was going smoothly until we tried to check in and the woman at the ticket counter had no record of us in the computer. I gave her the confirmation number for our flights and she nodded, "Oh, here you are! You weren't coming up because your flight LEFT YESTERDAY!" That's when I realized that in all my efforts to coordinate our arrival date in Dubai with Bernadette, I'd somehow mixed up what day our flight left NYC. "Hi, I'm an idiot!"
The woman at the ticket counter told us she'd "See what she could do." And then we spent the next 20 minutes in nail-biting agony trying not to freak the fuck out while she pecked away at her keyboard in silence. If she couldn't get us on a flight that day, we didn't even have a place to stay in NYC because we'd sublet our apartment! Arrrgh!
Thankfully, a couple minutes later, the ticket-lady suddenly exclaimed "Done! You're all set!" and handed us our boarding passes!
