The plane ain't gonna leave without you
[Wicked brick, but worth the read...]
They left us behind in Amsterdam.
When we first arrived I gave my GF $10 for cab fair for the return trip to the airport.
The day we are leaving we figured out we spent ALL the money. So we had to get a shuttle. I figured no big deal, we'll get there with plenty of time. The shuttle arrives, we get on, and for the next 2 hours the shuttle is driving around Amsterdam picking up people. The whole time my GF keeps saying she has to pee. We get to the airport with 5 minutes to spare. We sign in, and the teller says they are waiting for us, and we have to run. So here I am full sprint with 3 suit cases, with my GF crying she hard to pee. I told her to just go in her pants because we are going to miss the flight. She stops and runs into the bathroom. She gets out, and we can hear our names over the intercom and that they are going to leave. Full sprint again, and my GF can keep up. I stop and grab her suitcases, and continue to run. We get to the terminal and they are closed. I'm freaking hard because we literally had $0.70 in our pockets, and we just missed our flight. She looks at the ticket, and there is the $10 we had stashed for the cab stuck in the ticket envelope. I lost my mind, swearing top of my lung in the middle of the airport. She says "why are you mad"? Well that set me off harder. We're in an overseas country with nothing but $10.70 in our pockets, and no place to go. We are F*cked Royal. We both spent all our money on the trip.
So I go to all the airline desks trying to find out how much to get us both home. The cheapest was $1800 each. I lost it again. We go back to our airline's desk, and find the people have gone home. By shear luck another airline's person walked over and asked if he could help. We told him our story, and he logged into our airlines computer, re-booked us for the next flight (3 days later) and waved all the extra fees. So it wouldn't cost us anything to get home. My GF called her dad as a last resort, and he wired us some money to get some food, and another hotel for 3 days.
During the 3 days my GF decides she wants to try some herbal drugs. So she bought these stupid herbal pills. You were suppose to take 4 to see things, I took 10 with no effects. The day we are leaving she asks me if she should bring the remainder of the pills home. I told her they were crap and to throw them away.
We get into customs and they pull us aside. They are looking through our stuff, and then they pull the pills out. The pills she was suppose to leave behind. Now we're stuck in US customs for over 2 hours while they test it. What they found was not illegal in the US, BUT it was ILLEGAL to bring into the country. So they fine her $500, and wanted to take all of our money to pay part of the fine. I talked them into letting us keep $55 to get home. They took everything else. Even made her cash in the ~$8 we had in Dutch cash.
Worst vacation ever. And I'm not even going into the story of my video camera being stolen while we were there, and me almost getting arrested because I was going to throw the guy who took it off a 2 story supermarket's roof.
Fun times.
The plane ain't gonna leave without you 
