Originally Posted by Vulcan

When ever this happened to me (rarely), I have called the club at that airport on my cell and they have authorized it. I once had a agent refuse to talk to the Club person on the phone. He then asked me for the code of the agent's 'monitor'. She gave it to me, I relayed it, and my gate pass poped out 15 seconds later.
There is always a way around 'stuff'.