Up at 6.30 AM to catch a flight from Newark to Raleigh that left three and a half hours late. It gave me a chance to regret getting up so early. At the airport a short drop on the shuttle, I went to check in, the woman was horrible, my card didn’t work and she just said “Declined, call your bank in England”. Luckily, my other card worked but I was dismissed to fend for myself and if the other card hadn’t worked I was in trouble, although I did have some Euros and five and a half hours till the damn plane actually left to find somewhere to change them to US dollars.
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