tm wrote:

> Again, all arguments with merit, but has nothing to do with the  
> tickets purchased.  I guarantee there is some fine print somewhere 
> that dicks MonkeyBoy. He can jump up and down and bitch until his head 
> explodes, but the key word is "discount".

Perhaps.  The optimist in me tends to agree with your read on the 
situation.  But, then again, I survived military service and civil 
service examinations, thus am willing to play the "Who's the bigger 
swinging dick?" game with desk pilots.  If you're willing to sweat them 
a bit and present a reasonably worded out to them, you will 
_/eventually/_ have your call transfered to a desk manned by someone who 
will say "Okay, but just this once ..."  After which you effuse 
gratefully and, when you hang up, you each call the other a f*cking 
dickhead out of the hearing range of the other.  It all depends on how 
much sweat you want to expend and how much blood pressure medicine you 
have left in the bottle ... or shochu.  I prefer shochu to blood 
pressure medicine.  I'm far more reasonable when I'm drunk and up for a 
fight.

CL