SCHIPHOL TRAVEL TAXI CAN CRAM IT DOWN THE PIE-HOLE

AAARRGH! Irritation at utmost max. And given my previous experience with the afore mentioned institution I should really know better than to expect anything less than extreme angst with the whole thing.

Have just spent an hour trying to a) get onto the Schiphol website, which is down, then b) trying to find the Schiphol phone number, which is very elusive and c) almost being brought to a level of argumentative shouting with the seemingly 12-year-old at the Travel Taxi Desk who will INVARIABLY screw up my booking some how. NOT only that, but THEN they tell me that if I want to bring an extra bag in the taxi on the way back they are going to charge me 30 euros extra!! THIRTY! Which is almost 2/3 of the total price!! This completely negates the advantage of being able to carry 70kg and 2 carry on bags back on the plane.

I basically DID tell them to cram it down the pie-hole and said forget it about the extra bag, with which I will show up anyway, as on MORE than one occasion I have been brought home in a huge van with no one else in it. However I have also been picked up in some Euro economy sized soda can with a driver expecting to smush everyone and their luggage in there. It's a risk I'm willing to take, as the organisational system within that company being what it is I am at little risk of them actually being aware if I have told them about the extra bag or not. See related previous posts.

Wow that felt good to vent...a retrospective reading has me further of the opinion I must cut down on the caffeine, however.

Meeting in 15 on a document I have yet to read on a topic I know nothing about about a group I have never heard of...be back later with more pleasant post re: gezellig dinner last night and projected thoughts on tonight's...still have not decided upon an eatery...