Goodness ^^^^ nothing to bad about thoses experiences

Missed a Brisbane to Townsville flight by about 10 minutes once, that was annoying. Missed a Sydney to Brisbane by a day another time.

many years ago, mate and I heading to bali for two months (before they changed the visa)

got a lift to the airport off a mate and after many joints in the car park wandered into the check in.

mate forgot his passport. way too red eyed and hazy to deal with it and him trying to explain why he shouldn't really need a passport, I checked myself in gave him the mobile number of the guy we were planning on staying with while transiting through bali and said see you when (if) you get there.

so he catches the train home, gets laughed at by the boys for turning up at home two hours after he was supposed to fly out, grabs his passport and catches the train back to the airport (about 5-6hr round trip).

gets busted by airport security trying to sleep under the bridge at the georges river end of the runway and has to foot $120 to stay at the hilton.

stashes almost a quater, a lighter and papers wrapped in foil stuffed in a plastic bag in a tree in the airport grounds; grabs his passport and checks into his flight.

two months later we return surfed out and rice fed thin to find the bag still in the tree seemingly untouched.

we walk down to the river and roll joints and blow over the adventures still fresh and unreal.

the cops turn up and ask us what we're doin, I tell 'em we're just waiting for our lift home, they get back in their wagon and drive off.

not believing what just happened we grab our bags and board ladden airport trolleys and head back to the terminal for a stone fuelled feed.

After eating about half a dozen 8 dollar pies each we wander to the lifts in a silent stoner shuffle still in detached disbelief of the events of the last two months let alone of what happened since our return.

we stand in the lift sliently staring into the middle distance, after ten minutes or so I turn to my mate and say, 'man this lift is taking forever'

'I know' he says, 'man, I still can't believe we got indicators like that and that pot was still in the tree'

'yeah aye' I replied 'dude, you gotta press the button'

we had been standing motionless in a lift that travels exactly one floor for over ten minutes wondering why it was taking so long, when neither of us had even pressed the button.

me personally, I've never actually missed a plane but I've been told plenty of times that I've missed the boat....

Forgot to leave Maui on 2005
Knew we were getting into Kiwi land on Friday, no probs, flight leaves Thursday night right? WRONG!
Bloody international date line.
Got up really early to catch the sunrise from Haleakala, came back, crashed for a few hours the headed off for a sail at Spreks. The plane from Maui to Honolulu we were ment to be on took off right over us.
Got back to the unit and the owner comes over and said "Weren't you ment to leave today?". Gave him a dazed look then check the itinerary. Aww SH ! T!
Luck we had hooked up with a local, Rob Funk, who told us to ring Hawaiian and tell em we got stuck in traffic from Paia to Kahului. $20 to change the flight Honolulu. We were on a round the world ticket for Honolulu - Christchurch, so no probs to change that one.
Another 2 days on Maui. Lovely

New girlfriend ( now bride to be 10 years later) so I planned a romantic weekend in Melbourne (and a visit to the 'G to watch Richmond).

I had done all the booking - but got the wrong flight time by half an hour

As we approached the check in I glanced at the ticket - realised my mistake and shamefully announced to the bride that I da #$%^ed up, BUT that i would sort it all out. Furious, she denounced my bravado (as in "mate your full of it") and I bet her I would have at demand bj's for life if I could sort it out(yeh I know its juvenile but it was the bunny rabbit stage of the relationship).

When we reached the check in I glanced at the monitor with relief before the attendent announced "your lucky - all flights to Melbourne have been delayed"

I smiled but that attendant never knew quite why I was smiling so much

Sadly the bet was renounced several days later when Richmond was beaten

Not so much missed plane - but missed opportunity