Back to the Future would be very a different film if Marty McFly had been equipped with a little cheap travel insurance. Marty takes a trip to the unfamiliar world of 1955 and his entire existence is thrown into danger as he tries to contrive a way home to 1985. We can use his story to demonstrate how useful travel insurance can be when you encounter ‘mild peril’ on your journeys.
Things just don’t go smoothly for Michael J. Fox’s character, Marty McFly. Just seconds after seeing his good friend Doc Brown (played by Christopher Lloyd) gunned down by Libyan terrorists he is forced to escape in an experimental time machine, leaving a trail of fire behind. Upon arriving in 1955, he finds the Delorean has no power to take him home and he is stuck thirty years from where he belongs. If your mode of travel fails while you are abroad, whether a day or a year’s travel from home, even cheap travel insurance could help you find a route back, even if it means inventing the flux capacitor.
A Mother’s Care and Attention
Marty sets about finding the 1955 version of Doc, and prompts him to reconstruct the time machine thirty years ahead of schedule. Meanwhile, Marty manages to interrupt the first meeting of his father and mother, accidentally jeopardising his own future existence. He does this by being knocked unconscious by his would be grandfather’s car.
When he comes to, Marty finds his mother, Lorraine, is taking care of his head injury and has developed an infatuation for her unfortunate patient, which is a Freudian nightmare no man could endure. When you are injured abroad, proper medical attention can be far from cheap. Travel insurance could cover the costs of your care and also move you to a hospital closer to home. Hopefully that will mean a more modern facility, as well as one that’s more familiar. Perhaps not as familiar as being nursed by your mum, though.
Travelling Light
When you’re travelling, you don’t usually hope for bad weather; in fact, if serious weather interrupts your journey or forces it’s cancellation you may be due some compensation from your cheap travel insurance cover. Weather can be unpredictable. Doc Brown and Marty though were relying on a predictable weather event to power the Delorean’s return journey. The Doc rigs up a lightening conductor to the town’s clock tower knowing when it will strike from Marty’s foreknowledge of local history.
Meanwhile, Marty must ensure that his father and mother kiss at the school dance on that same evening, thus fixing their destiny together and preserving his existence. This is no mean feat, which involves politely avoiding Lorraine’s advances, thwarting the school bully and his cronies, and replacing the injured guitarist at the prom to play romantic music suitable for couples. These escapades put Marty behind schedule so that he must rush to be on time for the lightening strike and his ticket home.
Assuming Marty’s cheap travel insurance provider was in business in 1955, if he had missed the embarkation of his transfer home, his policy could probably have compensated him for missing the journey. Fate is kind though, and in a flash of light and Marty blazes a trail of fire back to his future. When he wakes up in 1985 he finds his once timid father more assertive, his formerly alcoholic mother happy and healthy, and his family more successful in general. The modern day Doc survives the terrorists, too, all thanks to Marty’s haphazard interventions. It’s nice when things work out okay in the end.
Author Resource:
Patrick Chong is the Managing Director of Journey’s Travel. Their consumer travel insurance website, Insuremore (http://insuremore.co.uk/ ) offers cheap travel insurance for families, couples and singles with a quick and easy online claims feature.
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