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12 December 2006

What to do with my plane ticket to Toronto? Ok, bunnies,remember the boyfriend who broke up with me over the weekend? →[More:]He's from Toronto and is going home for a week for Christmas. He really wanted me to come visit him and his family there (and I love Toronto, so I was all for it), so I bought a plane ticket three days before we broke up. The ticket's nonrefundable. During the breakup talk, he said, "you can still come up there if you want." To which I said, no effing way.

So my options are to go there and get a hotel and have fun by myself; exchange it for plane fare to a different city; perhaps there's another option I'm not thinking of.

What would you do in this situation?

post by: smich at: 14:25 | 12 comments

Make the fucker pay for it!

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 12 December | 14:42

TPS, some of my friends have suggested that, but I couldn't ask him to. I'm not angry with him. I think he's confused and in a bad place, and I also think that money is an issue for him right now. It's only a $300 ticket, so it won't kill me to suck it up. I know that if this had happened with people I'd dated in the past, I would definitely ask to be reimbursed, but not with him.

posted by smich 12 December | 14:48

If it were me, and I had money for a hotel, I would exchange it for a different destination. Going to Toronto and knowing he's there is just going to make it weird for you, I think. Is there someplace else you always wanted to go? Or someplace with good friends where you can crash/hang out?

posted by occhiblu 12 December | 14:49

Don't let it go to waste. Exchange it for another city because there is always the possibility that you will make a new friend along the way.

posted by getoffmylawn 12 December | 14:50

Go and visit dimitri!

posted by pieisexactlythree 12 December | 14:54

He's clearly "confused"- he let you buy a ticket to Toronto 3 days before he broke up with you! You are way too nice to this guy. This is a grown man, not a child. If you're not going to ask him to pay for it, you should at least yell at him for being an asshole about the whole plane ticket thing, or something.

As for the ticket, you can exchange it for another city, and I'm pretty sure you don't have to use the credit right at Christmas- they can keep it on account with you (I've done that with Delta, on my SkyMiles number). So you could translate it to a fun spring vacation! Oo la la!

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 12 December | 14:54

Change it for a flight to NYC and make the bunnies there arrange a meetup around your itinerary.

posted by Doohickie 12 December | 16:26

Woo hoo! I'm in. Come Dec 28-31, like my sister, and you can go ice skating with us!

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 12 December | 16:32

I agree with TPS, but I think I already told you I'm cynical in this department. So if not New York, change it for someplace warm with sun and sand! Get a tan, relax, and enjoy yourself!

posted by redvixen 12 December | 16:39

Another vote for different city.

posted by Miko 12 December | 16:53

I'll probably do another city. I was planning to go to San Francisco in the spring anyway, so maybe that's what I'll do.

posted by smich 12 December | 17:10

If you can't exchange it, hang out with the TO bunnies. Don't, I repeat, DO NOT, see your ex.

posted by matildaben 12 December | 19:58

← "I'm sorry sir, but you can't bring that on the plane." || jonmc, your breakfast is served. →

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