Those non-refundable airline tickets you bought and then could not use might not be a total loss after all.

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That will not thrill the, you know, few thousand Persian-Americans who already bought tickets, but what can you do?

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The 86th floor was where you would have bought your blimp tickets, had the plan not been permanently scuttled by high winds.

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Watch a movie a night and in a couple of years it'll pay for all the tickets you would have bought at the sticky-floored cineplex.

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So imagine if you've been lucky enough to get some but have since found out that babies have to have their own tickets, even if they were conceived after you bought them.

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There is the pensioner, out for a day with his grandson, who kindly bought both their tickets on his mobile phone, but it turns out you are only allowed one e-ticket per person, so poor old granddad is fined.

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