Tuesday, June 08, 2010

Angry bride changes name to 'I Hate Thomas Cook'

A bride-to-be was so disgusted at being charged a fee to change her honeymoon booking she has altered her name to ‘I Hate Thomas Cook’. Austin Kettle, 26, now answers to ‘Mrs Lorraine Darla I Hate Thomas Cook And Its Associates Big Shot Company Treading on the Little Guy Leeks’. She saw red when Thomas Cook said she would have to pay a fee to change the surname on her honeymoon booking.

Mrs Leeks, from Ipswich, Suffolk, plans to get married in February 2011, and last month booked her honeymoon to Gambia under her married name. But she later realised she would not have enough time to change the name on her passport and contacted the company to amend the booking details.



When Thomas Cook said she would have to pay a fee she refused to do so and decided on her bizarre form of revenge. She changed her name, include her first name from Austin to Lorraine, using the Legal Deed Poll Service. She said: ‘I wasn’t angry with Thomas Cook; at first I was a bit upset but it was just a bit of a crazy moment.

‘My fiancé thinks I’m crazy. The amusing thing is he will have to say my new name during the wedding ceremony.’ A spokeswoman for Thomas Cook said: ‘The name on their booking must match the name on their passport.’

6 comments:

monkey_town said...

This is a sign, man! Run while you can!

Insolitus said...

Exactly what I was going to say!

232323 said...

But wait... I thought she didn't have enough time to change her name?  Isn't that how this all started?

cath said...

yup!

L said...

Maybe she won't be let on the plane because her legal name won't match what's on her passport.

Then what will she change it to?  Mrs. Lorraine Darla I Hate Thomas Cook And Its Associates Big Shot Company Treading on the Little Guy and British Airways Sucks Ass Too Leeks?

Peter Hoyle said...

Maybe the dozy cow should've thought ahead?