After I met Bam, we had a lovely night of cigarettes and more terrible planning. The next morning, she and I missed our flight from London to Barcelona. We were flying RyanAir. We got up on time, we even had time for breakfast! We skated to the tube and made it in time (3 hours before) for our flight. They gave us a bit of shit for having our skateboards attached to our backpacks, so we would take them as carry on. It all hit the fan when we got to the front of the line and this poor dude handling like 50+ customers alone said Bam’s bag was overweight. So instead of letting her purchase an overweight ticket for her bag, they made us go to a completely new line with a shit ton of other people on the next flight already ahead of us.

If only we were brave enough to make a scene. We definitely pestered each of the poor three souls left behind the counter. By the time we got to the front of the line to get the oversized bag ticket/pricing, we were half an hour away from boarding and they wouldn’t let us on. It was a shit show, and I’ll never trust RyanAir again.

We ended up flying a different airline to Madrid. I can’t remember which - it was either Tigerair or Jetstar, but we got there at 1am or so and had to take a bus to the city centre for a last minute hostel. We lost our Barcelona airfare, and one night at the hostel. Rookie mistakes. Learn from me, do not trust Ryanair, or be a squeaky as fuck wheel. But not too squeaky! You don't want to end up viral on r/publicfreakout.

We didn’t really know what we were doing, we couldn’t get wifi. We just asked the bus driver what the most common stop was for hotels and hostels and he took us there and we asked strangers for directions at 1am. PROTIP I CAN SPEAK SPANISH. We got to a hostel and they luckily had a room. We had a quick shower, thanked our lucky souls and knocked out.