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DOG-CHOMPED PASSPORT
A Jamaica-bound family watches a passport shredded by a dog, forcing a frantic, last-minute scramble for an emergency print and a race to the airport.
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The family's Jamaica trip nearly ended before it started, all because a dog got to one passport.
Twelve hours before takeoff, the poster heard a scream from upstairs. The wife had dropped her passport on the bed for just a second, and the dog had chewed straight through the main page, tearing it apart. She held it up and announced, "I'm not going to Jamaica."
There was no fixing that passport. The family was upset, but they couldn't really blame the dog. So the poster went straight into damage control, calling the passport department to ask about an emergency replacement.
That plan collapsed fast. The answer was basically no unless there was a death in the family, "death in the family etc." was the kind of situation that qualified. That left one option: the nearest appointment they could find was on the east coast, in Buffalo, New York, at 8 a.m. the next day.
So the wife's flight had to be changed. The family sent her to Buffalo with a new itinerary and a tight connection plan: a 10:45 a.m. flight from Buffalo to Orlando, then on to Jamaica.
She got to the passport office an hour early and was first in line. The staff told her she could get the passport that same day, but the printing wouldn't even start until 10 a.m. The manager wasn't sugarcoating anything. He told her to change her flight because he could not guarantee it would be ready in time, saying, "I can't guarantee that she will get it in time for the 10:45 flight."
Still, she waited. Around 10:15, the manager said her passport was printing. By about 10:20 or 10:25, she had it in hand.
Then came the next race: she grabbed an Uber and headed for the airport. The driver believed she could make it, and she did. Boarding was delayed, which helped. She got to the gate with about 10 minutes to spare and made the flight.
By the time she landed in Jamaica, the rest of the family had already been there for about three hours. The poster later summed up the whole ordeal with one blunt line: "Was beyond exhausting!"