Serendipity
This morning I received a phone call from sister-in-law asking if we fancied going to see Spamalot tonight and stay in a London hotel. Her Mother-in-law has been knocked down by a car and they are going up to Shrewsbury to see her in hospital, she's suffered a couple of broken bones but when you are 84 years old that can be pretty serious so they want to see her today, and they had the theatre/hotel booked and paid for. Well, its daughters birthday today and her partner had not arranged anything, difficult time for them financially at the moment, so I immediately thought of them.
Oh, blow, just received a call from daughter, the theatre will not transfer the tickets, even though they have the booking number etc. they physically want the tickets and since sister-in-law is in Kent, and about to travel up to Shrewsbury, that is impossible and now the hotel are making things difficult, looks like £250 is going down the drain and daughter will not have a special birthday after all, so much for serendipity and every cloud having a silver lining. My gut reaction is to picket the theatre, who says I'm an overprotective, clucky Mother?