We’ve all done ridiculous things when we’re drunk.
Often it’s sending a text tirade to an ex, or ordering something useless of Amazon.
But one student recently woke up to find someone had bought a mad expensive flight itinerary to the Maldives in his name, after losing his ID on a night out.
Set for 2 December, the itinerary included first class tickets to the islands with a pitstop in Abu Dhabi.
And those four tickets came to a bile-inducing £5,289.87 – enough to make even the sturdiest of drinkers suddenly need to close the curtains and go back to bed.
The accompanying letter from the Flight Centre was addressed to ‘Lord George William Armstrong’ and read: ‘Thank you so much for popping in the other day.
‘We certainly appreciate your business and hope your (sic) beginning to get excited about your upcoming first-class flight to the Maldives.
‘Please keep in mind, balance is due in full on Friday 10 November at 12.05pm.’
Now, to the impartial observer, question marks should have started popping up at this point over the Flight Centre’s apparent disregard for English grammar – let alone anything else.
But it turns out that there was actually an additional piece of paper enclosed which revealed that the whole thing was actually an elaborate joke from a Flight Centre member of staff.
Steve, who works at the Cheltenham branch, found William’s ID outside the Flight Centre shop and wanted to get it back to him…but not before completely messing with him.
At the bottom of the letter, it said: ‘Just make sure you consider us for your next holiday. Take care! Steve’.
And since then, the two have actually met up and Will has been reunited with his precious ID.
Here endeth the Monday lesson.
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