OT: Technology hates me example #4358

[RS_Express]

OK, I'm going to the NCAA tournament 1st/2nd round games in St. Louis in March. By bus.  Had the basketball tickets and hotel booked weeks ago.  Time to get the bus tickets.  Have to get them online because although the bus stops in Worthington, there is no ticket seller here.  So it's Greyhound.com at 1AM.

Booking the trip down to St. Louis: 17 hours, transfers in Albert Lea and Kansas City, click, click, boom, we're good.
Booking the return... oh boy.  First the Greyhound site refused to give me the same return route as the departure.  Kept routing me a 27 hour trip through Indianapolis   

So I broke the return trip into parts.  St. Louis up to Albert Lea, transfer in KC, click, click, fine.

Albert Lea to Worthington.  Click, click... card declined.  WTF?? Try again, again, same thing.   So now my return is virtually stuck in Albert Lea until morning when I can call the bank and ask what's up.  Seems that by booking 2 trips and trying to book a 3rd in one session, I triggered my accounts' fraud alert flag    So I confirmed it was me and got the flag removed.  Back to Greyhound.com.  Albert Lea>Worthington, click, click, finally!  Hooray!  Except that by having to book the return in 2 segments instead of 1, I ended up paying an extra $40 

God I miss just walking up to a counter and buying a hard ticket.

[pikvikes]

God I miss just walking up to a counter and buying a hard ticket. DITTO!!!!!