I am frustrated and stressed. This is why....

1) I made the stupid mistake of not booking a 2-way flight when booking for Karachi from Vancouver. Because of this mistake, I am having a hard time booking a one-way flight to Vancouver. Apparently, people in Pakistan book flights two weeks before their expected departure. Booking in advance, say a month or two, is to be laughed at. That is the reason why I am having a hard time booking my flight back. On top of that, the 4-5 travel agents I am in contact with are each giving me different information and making me run around in circles. I am not used to this. I am used to booking two months in advance via Internet. No travel agents, no middle men, no fuss! Lets not forget the corruption that is involved here either. One travel agent gives me a higher rate for the same flight as compared to another travel agent all to get extra commission. When confronted with this, the other travel agent is accused of being a liar and a fraud. I then looked at flights for the same airline online and lo behold! The rates were 5 times higher than what the travel agents had proposed. Lets also not forget that as soon as they see I have a Canadian passport, they automatically assume that I have money coming out of my rear-end. It is common in Pakistan, as I'm sure in other countries, for foreigners to get ripped off.

2) I keep getting random phone calls on my cell phone and on my land line from random people (men) at odd times of the night (2 am, 4 am, 5 am etc...). This has been happening for months and I am losing my patience...Initially when these men would call I would genuinely think that they called the wrong number by accident and I would try to help them out. I then found out that some men call random numbers, hope that a girl would pick and try to be "friends" with them. I now have 3 numbers stored on my cell phone as, 'Creepy Balouch' (he thinks I am a Balouch and wants to marry me), 'idiot', and 'stalker.' I seriously think these three numbers belong to the same guy...Also, a friend of mine has called one of these numbers and literally yelled at him. He said, "If you do not stop bugging my sister then you will regret it" That sure didn't help....

Anyways, because of these random men, I have found myself becoming rude. When I recieve these random calls now by men asking to be "friends" with me I say "I do not want to be your friend and do not call me ever again!" I am getting annoyed at my recent change in behaviour. But I cannot help but get annoyed by these men! So now I sleep with my phone receiver off the hook and cell phone on silent. I cannot deal with this anymore....