They assumed I would always clean up the damage, even when the d@mage involved my child.
I signed the complaint.
Then I placed three additional calls.
The first canceled the travel card linked to the vacation.
The second removed my corporate discount and payment authorization from the San Diego resort.
The third informed the attorney managing my parents’ planned townhouse purchase that I was withdrawing as loan guarantor before closing.
My family landed in California believing they had obtained five wonderful seats.
They had no idea how costly those seats were about to become.
Part 2 – The Vacation Paid For By Someone Else
The first complication appeared at the rental-car counter.
My father gave the agent the premium travel card I had supplied for Emma’s transportation, food, and medical emergencies. The payment was declined twice.
When he contacted the bank, the representative explained that the primary cardholder had frozen the account and challenged several unauthorized transactions.
