Stupidity Tax

[LadyCampanulaTottington]

We’ve just paid €50 to have our passports couriered from the hotel we stayed in after leaving them in the safe.

Urgh.

Please tell me your Stupidity Tax experiences.

Paying for car to be recovered when I ran out of petrol having just driven past a fuel station 5 miles ago. Was running late and thought I could make it. Don't let it go low now!

Paying for half a tank of unleaded to be pumped out of DH's diesel car. Cost of the unleaded, the removal and then had to buy a full tank of diesel too. Luckily I realised when I'd only put half a tankful in.

My DH refills at half a tank, I play a bit of a petrol roulette now and again, drives him nuts 😁

Before Covid I booked a holiday and didn't double check the dates I did it for the wrong month. Less than an hour later had to call and change it. £40 per person to change then the extra $100 each as the right month was more expensive. Complete idiot.

Booking ds on a maths course over the holidays, and then forgetting all about it. I call it Blunder Tax

Also passport related - in 2019 I had to pay something like £175 (can't quite remember) and the train fare up to Liverpool for emergency passport renewal after I noticed mine was out of date two weeks before my holiday .