22-March 2017 to 24-March 2017: Speaking of getting back to LAX from Denver, Julie and Tahia were successfully able to check in to their flight, but I wasn’t. Apparently, my reservation was not in the system anymore. And so I had to call customer service to see what was going on.

Once I got connected with an agent, I was told that my reservation was cancelled because I was a “no show” for my earlier flight from LAX to Denver on Wednesday, which clearly wasn’t true. I don’t know why they cancelled the original booking (though I suspected that the original United agents really wanted to make an example of me for some reason), but now they charged another $250 to re-issue my ticket for something I never cancelled myself.

So the grand total for these erroneous change fees was now about $638 and change…

• Day 1 (March 22, 2017 – Colorado Springs, Colorado: “Drama At The Gate”
• Day 2 (March 23, 2017 – Colorado Springs, Colorado: “Opportunity Knocks”
• Day 3 (March 24, 2017 – Los Angeles, California: “The Happy Drunk”

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