A couple of pikeys going large
Last March I got made redundant from my marketing job in a pretty big insurance company. They were utter shits about it and employed every loophole in the book to ensure that I got sent on my way with about two pound fifty to my name. A couple of weeks into unemployment and I was feeling like utter shite, i'd had to move out of my houseshare that I loved with three other girls and move into my 16 year old stepsister's bedroom, sleeping on a blow up bed. I was NOT having a good time. My boyfriend was working for a large holiday company, red branded, owned by a bloke that owns an island, you know, that one, and one night rings me up and tells me to pack a case. Turns out he'd won a holiday to Jamaica, a Sandals one no less.

So we turn up in a Sandals resort, me unemployed and completely skint, him, not much more money, and stayed in the honeymoon suite, with butler service and a whirlpool bath and a fully stocked bar. It was incredible. Totally the best pick me up you could ask for after a proper shit month or so.

It got better though, on the day we were supposed to leave, we got told there was a pesky little ash cloud stopping our flight home. As my boyfriend was staff for this particlarly large company, we got flown to MI-FUCKING-AMI to go and 'help allocate passengers' ready for their flights home. This entailed staying a hotel, paid for, on South Beach for TWO WEEKS after our already amazing week in Jamaica and putting everything on company expenses.

Our flight home was full se we got put in Upper Class on the way back.

The best period of unemployment i've experienced, certainly.
(natakins, Fri 29 Jul 2011, 14:55, 12 replies)

Very nice
I thought I was lucky when I turned up late for Eurostar and got bumped up to first class for the 50 minute journey (Including a free plastic glass of champers, woo)
( LemonEntryMyDearWatson This time, Moriarty, the hand is on the other foot, Fri 29 Jul 2011, 14:59, closed)

Good for you
It's nice when things like this happen at just the right moment. Got to feel sorry for the people stuck by the ash cloud though; stopped me from working on Ascension.
( M3rx likes the Asian ladies, Fri 29 Jul 2011, 14:59, closed)

you're working on ascension?
Are you Jesus? Didn't think ash clouds affected things like that.
(leviticus no longer likes the cut of your gib on, Fri 29 Jul 2011, 15:03, closed)

Ascension Island
not quite a religious experience, unless you like marlin fishing.
( M3rx likes the Asian ladies, Fri 29 Jul 2011, 15:05, closed)

I'm sure I'm not alone in preferring marlin fishing over God

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 29 Jul 2011, 15:41, closed)

The only thing I have to do with god
is talk to him/her/it on the porcelain telephone.
( M3rx likes the Asian ladies, Fri 29 Jul 2011, 16:02, closed)

I knew you were Jesus

(leviticus no longer likes the cut of your gib on, Fri 29 Jul 2011, 16:30, closed)

jammy
i like it :-)
(Monkeystrumpet monkey. Monkey, MONKEY!!!, Fri 29 Jul 2011, 15:00, closed)

Jammy indeed
My family couldn't believe it. I literally thought I was the don. Swanning about thinking I was a millionaire. A definite highlight, and while being so poor!
(natakins, Fri 29 Jul 2011, 15:03, closed)

Hooray for you!
:-)
(Smale is stuffed, Fri 29 Jul 2011, 15:17, closed)

Well, I think you've just become one of the most hated people on b3ta...
;)
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Mon 1 Aug 2011, 14:03, closed)

Yeah I forget how lucky I really was!! At the time it all happened so fast that I didnt ahve a chance to really let it sink in. I have fantastic photos!
(natakins, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 14:10, closed)