Yankee Tag Blog

I’ve been moving the past week or so, but I’m still alive. Barely. When I say moving, really I mean that I’ve moved out, but can not yet move into my new place and have been hovering in the limbo between homes. I think I’m supposed to get access today. So, I’ll have pictures and stuff for you later, mostly I just wanted you to not worry anymore. Especially my friend Sainte Ofle, wife of St.Ofle, who was kind enough to link to me in her blog.

Well, it’s not $800, but I talked those Mexicana jerks into sending me an extra $140 over their previous offer. The thing is, I still feel like they’re trying to rip me off. The worst part is, it would only take them $160 to make this right, at this point. Here’s what I got from Jaime:

Dear Nathan:

My last and up authorization is $540USD in a check plus $100USD you received in Cancun, total $640USD, MAXIMUM AUTHORIZATION FOR THESE CASES.

I need your information about your address for to send you this check, before I need the papers and info. I asked you, It is neceesary you will be contact a serius company for the reception (to my attention), after I will ask for the ckeck (aprox time for reception is 20 days in labor not included sat & sun).

I will hope your reply, best regards,
Jaime Suárez López
Atención a Clientes
Cía. Mexicana de Aviación, S.A. de C.V.

Well, I will accept (since $640 > $0) but I will not go quietly. I’ve started a petition to let Mexicana know how much business they’re losing by saving $160. Please go sign my petition at http://www.petitionspot.com/signature/nomexicana to vow to never fly on Mexicana!

I’m moving.

I have these fantastic 90-year-old, Japanese landlords who are multi-millionaires and who refuse to ever buy anything new. Not anything, ever. And I know, I know, that they are going to keep my $1000 deposit unless I clean everything in my apartment so well that it looks exactly like it did in 1932 when they bought it.

So, like I said, I’m moving. And packing, and cleaning, and basically repairing their craphole apartment now that I’m not going to live in it anymore. Below is a Venn diagram I created which illustrates in graphic detail (I love puns) the parts of moving that I do (and don’t) like.

So it seems like it’s taking forever for 24 to resume. Come November/December I’m usually chomping at the bit, but even more so this year, since last season basically sucked. I spent this morning searching google for Jack Bauer pictures (which I find myself doing more often than I should for a straight male…). I stumbled across one of those surveys like “Which Power Ranger are you?” or “Which LOTR character are you?” etc. This one was which 24 character are you? I ended up being the best character second only to Jack Bauer himself:

George Mason, what a guy. Speaking of which, I really need to brush up on seasons one and two.

I just heard back from my pal Jaime at Mexicana. Only four days late! He says…

Mr Nathan Kagey:

Tomorrow across the day you will be receiving my answer.

Best regards,

Jaime Suárez López
Atención a Clientes
Cía. Mexicana de Aviación, S.A. de C.V.

Call me a sucker, but I really want to believe him this time. Mainly because I can’t wait to be receiving his answer across the day. Tomorrow.

My company moved into a new office. It’s rad. The cubicles are smaller, we’re farther from the nearest coffee shop, bar, and corner store, there aren’t any drawers in our new desks, the rent is higher, we don’t get CNN anymore, and parking is more limited. The CEO’s office is much larger, though, so you know… silver lining.

Only one person took me up on my Mexicana Betsicana: Richard St. Ofle. Unfortunately, he lost. And he owes me coffee.

I think this is the first bet I wish I had lost.

Note: Richard made good on his bet. Have you seen his new art show? Beards You Should Know

Late breaking update from Jaime at Mexicana:

Dear NATHAN KAGEY:

Tomorrow I will send you my answer about your claim.
Thank you so much for your comprehension and help.

Best regards,
Jaime Suárez López
Atención a Clientes
Cía. Mexicana de Aviación, S.A. de C.V.

Well, it looks like they could be resolving this in as little as 24 hours from now. Call me a cynic, but I’m doubtful. So doubtful, in fact, that I’m willing to put my money where my mouth is:

I’ll bet any visitor to this site that Mexicana does not offer to compensate me my claim of $800 for my lost baggage by the end of the day tomorrow.

Wanna bet? betme@yankeetag.com

So, if you’re not previously familiar with my Mexicana horror story, let me catch you up: they lost my bags on October 2, 2007 and after telling me they found them five separate times, have yet to actually give them to me (now they’ve “unfound” them again). This is the most recent e-mail I’ve received from their customer disservice department:

Dear Nathan Kagey:

We finish the looking for your luggage, infortunattly we can not found it, then I need you will send me to my attention, for certificated mail the next documents:

1) Original Bag Tag

2) Original Tickets of your travel Sacramento - Phoenix - México - Cancún (included ticket of UA and MX)

3) Original Boarding Passes (included ticket of UA and MX).

4) Expenses Receipts of your articles included inside in your lost baggage.

When I will receipt this documents I can do an offer about your lost baggage.

I will hope your answer,

Jaime Suárez López

Yeah, I bet you will hope my answer. Now look, I’m a decent guy, I understand luggage gets lost. It happens. But after a month, I would expect a resolution. Now they want me to send my bag tag (which I showed them when they failed to return my bags, and then again when I filed my claim), my “Original Tickets of [my] travel Sacramento” (which is perfect since they were paperless tickets), my original boarding pass (I’d like to meet the person who saves his boarding stubs for a month…), and by far the best request: “Expenses Receipts of [my] articles included inside in [my] lost baggage. Are you kidding me? You think I saved the receipts of all of my belongings? I don’t know how they do things in Mexico, but here in the US of A we call receipts “garbage”. And we throw them away.

Oh, and by the way, I did hope my answer five days ago and no response yet…

Bastards.