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re: Ever have a carefully planned trip just fall apart by the time you're ready to leave?
Posted on 6/9/23 at 9:41 am to Rouge
Posted on 6/9/23 at 9:41 am to Rouge
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When you go out of your way to accommodate someone and they still bail, we're not going to do the accommodation anymore.
Yep. I've put several people on a "don't make plans with you" diet. Not going out of my way to make plans with a flake.
Some people I still care about even though they're flakes, so if they try to make plans with me, I basically just go into it expecting the plans to not happen. Essentially I mentally act as if we don't have plans so I'm not annoyed when they inevitably flake out.
As you can see, it is a massive pet peeve of mine as well.
This post was edited on 6/9/23 at 9:43 am
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Posted on 6/9/23 at 9:41 am to Rouge
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The issue is that it's not fine.
That was meant for your apology my man
Posted on 6/9/23 at 9:50 am to udtiger
I am definitely feeling very much like Clark Griswold at this point. Hopefully I don't have to punch a moose or haul aunt Edna around
Posted on 6/9/23 at 9:54 am to LouisianaLady
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Even just traveling with another couple can be hit or miss. We did that once with friends of ours who have young kids, and their lifestyle was just so drastically different from ours that the trip sucked for us basically being on their schedule and doing what they wanted.
Crosses you off the beach vacation list...
Posted on 6/9/23 at 9:54 am to fr33manator
My dude, the trip wouldn’t have been that fun anyway. That was too many people and too many plans for it to be enjoyable.
I have to work today and this weekend, with no vacation in sight. And i have diarrhea.
I have to work today and this weekend, with no vacation in sight. And i have diarrhea.
Posted on 6/9/23 at 9:56 am to LouisianaLady
quote:you have no one but yourself to blame for that
Even just traveling with another couple can be hit or miss. We did that once with friends of ours who have young kids, and their lifestyle was just so drastically different from ours that the trip sucked for us basically being on their schedule and doing what they wanted.
do y'all not have nieces and nephews or something? vacationing with kids absolutely blows if you don't have them.
Posted on 6/9/23 at 9:58 am to Twenty 49
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We had a week in Paris set for early Oct. 2021. Decided to go for it.
That’s ballsy! I wouldn’t have done it. It was another three years before my wife would get back on a plane.
Posted on 6/9/23 at 9:58 am to fr33manator
Have you considered that maybe you over plan? Not trying to be an arse but your original post seems like how my wife's family plans any kind of outing.
They will plan the whole menu out months ahead of time (i.e. "What do you think you want for breakfast on Saturday the 16th?). Full itinerary written out even if it is "relax on the beach". It leads to anxiety both before and after the trip that it isn't "perfect". My father in law will fly in for the weekend just to see the baby and they will still plan what they will cook every meal way in advance.
You can plan for yourself and either other people make it happen or they don't. Sometimes they have good excuses and sometimes they couldn't find a good way to tell you no earlier.
They will plan the whole menu out months ahead of time (i.e. "What do you think you want for breakfast on Saturday the 16th?). Full itinerary written out even if it is "relax on the beach". It leads to anxiety both before and after the trip that it isn't "perfect". My father in law will fly in for the weekend just to see the baby and they will still plan what they will cook every meal way in advance.
You can plan for yourself and either other people make it happen or they don't. Sometimes they have good excuses and sometimes they couldn't find a good way to tell you no earlier.
Posted on 6/9/23 at 10:03 am to fr33manator
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fr33manator
I completely understand, especially since I am typcially the one in the family that gets everyone together. I have some firm family members that say they will come and always do... but the other half are flakey if they dont plan the trip and pay for things themselves.
Its like their word of "yes im down, cant wait for everyone to get together" is not well thought out.
We usually share the cost of the trip (mainly lodging and cooked meals), but I've found that I dont trust a yes unless they send some money... anything.
This years trip was the same. I called everyone months ago to suggest a place and thing to do. Everyone said yes absolutely to the date and place. We leave in 3 weeks and we are down to just my immediate family and my parents. Brother and sisters and cousins family backed out.
We will let the kids bring some friends and it will be fun, but damn. We talk all year about doing more things as a family, but when the time comes.. its falls apart.
Posted on 6/9/23 at 10:27 am to GreatLakesTiger24
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vacationing with kids absolutely blows if you don't have them.
Yes this is 101 stuff. When it comes to non-family vacation either everyone brings their kids or no one does.
Posted on 6/9/23 at 10:31 am to LSUBoo
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Crosses you off the beach vacation list...
We were younger back then. Probably a lot more aligned with them now. I think the worst was just that they wanted to eat the worst food possible versus explore local places. IHop, Hardee's, etc.
Posted on 6/9/23 at 10:33 am to GreatLakesTiger24
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do y'all not have nieces and nephews or something? vacationing with kids absolutely blows if you don't have them.
No no no. The kids weren't with us.
The couple has young kids and were on that schedule so they were up banging loud pots/pans in the kitchen at 6am while we were asleep, didn't want to venture out at night (sleepy by 8pm) any of the nights we were there, that sort of thing. I was like 25 at the time.
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They will plan the whole menu out months ahead of time (i.e. "What do you think you want for breakfast on Saturday the 16th?). Full itinerary written out even if it is "relax on the beach". It leads to anxiety both before and after the trip that it isn't "perfect". My father in law will fly in for the weekend just to see the baby and they will still plan what they will cook every meal way in advance.
Eh. I'm this way because the opposite tends to suck. If you don't have any restaurant reservations, you're waiting an hour+ for a meal and/or eating at a crappy chain. If you don't book tickets to things you want to do, you run the risk of there being no openings. If you don't research what you even want to do, you end up sitting around with a finger up your arse trying to figure out what there is to do.
We aren't go-go-go vacation people (I "schedule" a lot of down time), but there's always a table booked with a happy waitress waiting on our arrival for each meal.
Even vacations where you cook a lot like a cabin/beach I like to plan what I'm going to cook or you're wandering around Publix like a dummy and you probably aren't having a culinary epiphany on the spot like that.
This post was edited on 6/9/23 at 10:39 am
Posted on 6/9/23 at 10:35 am to fr33manator
Invite a bunch of hookers. They’ll show for sure.
Posted on 6/9/23 at 10:36 am to LouisianaLady
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The couple has young kids
I'm getting to the point to where I have my limits on that
Posted on 6/9/23 at 10:38 am to fr33manator
Yes, multiple Hawaiian islands. Then COVID hit.
Posted on 6/9/23 at 10:40 am to fr33manator
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This post was edited on 9/11/25 at 6:32 am
Posted on 6/9/23 at 10:45 am to JohnnyKilroy
Reminds me of a family vacation where myself, some cousins, and - a couple aunts and uncles did a little excursion that wasn’t kid friendly and my sister and cousins (moms of babies) got legitimately mad because “we could have gone to the beach (again) as a family” 
Posted on 6/9/23 at 10:45 am to Odysseus32
Yep, gave up years ago. My youngest daughter now makes plans . Others are more apt to arrive
Posted on 6/9/23 at 10:46 am to fr33manator
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Ever have a carefully planned trip just fall apart by the time you're ready to leave?
if you have a wife/GF and kids its SOP to happen every time, just shift gears and adjust, life goes on.
Posted on 6/9/23 at 11:25 am to fr33manator
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Still looking forward to the escape and the time together and worried that all the planning was for naught. A big boondoggle and should have just gone to the beach like always.
How would going to the beach change things? If people can't come, they can't come.
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