Am I being nasty..

[coolma]

..or do I feel a bit about the girl who has broken her back in Corfu and is asking for public donations to get home for treatment because she didn't have holiday insurance? Surely, nowdays, insurance is an absolute essential for travelling? I expect I'm being horrible but I really think it's a bt much...

yes, mama, and also Lloyds TSB

Apparently it's not a game of two halves after all

No need, AF. No need. I'm fragile enough as it is. Incandescent with rage.

My LLoyds TSB Platinum account repairs spinal injury every time I use a cashpoint.....it's a miracle.

I demand equality for the much-maligned second half of a word.

MN are you listening?

ARE YOU????

Perhaps she'll be used in the Halifax's next marketing campaign, complete with wedding dress (after she's made a full recovery of course)

Perhaps it's to avoid having to watch us lose the footy booyhoo

I thought she was in Greece (OP says Corfu), not Spain?

(I realise this doesn't make much difference to the discussion; just trying to get facts straight.)

i wonder how far they allow it to go. if a word has five letters will they allow the first 3 to be bolded?

whomoved i am completely lost on teh meaning of your post, sorry. can you explain?

PF...don't muddy the waters

'tis semantics, innit

oh yes i get it now. second half of the match?

Ooohhhhhhhhhhhhhh let's find out...

To answer your original question - yes you are being nasty.

She should have got insurance. She shoudn't have got pissed and fallen off her balcony. But she didn't and she did.

How do you suggest she gets home - on a space hopper?

how many letters though, my eyesight is too bad to count all those?

she should get home on a plane paid for by from her own or her family's pocket.

Oh.

I would never have known I needed travel insurance. I didn't know it was standard - I thought it was something rich people got for when your hotel kicks you out. I feel really stupid now.

booyhoo - you are very lucky if your family could come up with £16000, mine certainly couldn't.

mine would make a bloody good bash at it before asking teh public to pay for my stupidity. bank loans, credit cards, remortgaging, selling a car. i would do all of that before i would ask the public to pay for my child to be flown home from a perfectly good hospital.

She fell of the balcony while drunk?

lrd, I never knew people could be so naive

I know!

I've not been on holiday for years - not since my parents took me, when I was a teenager. I guess I just never thought about it - hopefully I would have done before actually traveling, but maybe not.

I thought that card you get for medical attention in the EU covered it ... how wrong was I?!

yes, you were wrong

thank God you came across this thread

The little card does cover emergency medical attention LRD - and the girl int he story is being treated, but it doesn't cover your flights home if you can't make your booked flight, it doesn't cover your family staying in a hotel to stay in the country with you, etc.

Well, I wouldn't have been stupid enough to travel without checking it out - but I am sad to realize that it all will cost more than I thought. I was hoping DH and I would be able to afford a holiday at some point, but obviously best not.

Poor lass - must be scary for her being hurt so far away from home, even if it is her own fault.