Because otherwise I wouldn’t be searching for professional face paints …

and I wouldn’t have checked the hours of Krylon (company based in San Francisco)…

and I wouldn’t have discovered it’s not open on the days I’m going to be in SF …

and I wouldn’t have double checked my flight information from SoCal to SF …

and wouldn’t have discovered that I book my flight a week later than I needed to.

So, thank you, Halloween! I’m now $213 poorer.*

*$75 change fee to change this flight to sometime at the end of January when there’s another reasonably-priced flight, $69 to add a return flight; $69 for a new flight at the right date with a different airline. This would be a suitable time to trot out this: FML!