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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 11:34 am to tigercross
Posted on 6/9/23 at 11:34 am to tigercross
Beach is only 3-4 hours away. Mountains are more than double that. Would have made it a lot easier to work out logistics for some people.
Although we are still coming out cheaper than what a big enough condo at the beach would have run us.
Although we are still coming out cheaper than what a big enough condo at the beach would have run us.
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Posted on 6/9/23 at 1:05 pm to LouisianaLady
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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.
I think you missed my point. I understand booking tickets to events and making restaurant reservations. They prefer to cook. They meal plan to the point of knowing exactly how many steaks, eggs, etc they need to purchase beforehand. The whole family takes part in the discussion. To me, if you decide to cook, you go to a local market there and see what's fresh and what you want to have, not plan on having pork chops on a Tuesday in three months.
Posted on 6/9/23 at 1:11 pm to LouisianaLady
ah i see. i hate mixing morning routines with people. it's why i like staying in a hotel
i generally wake up early, almost immediately get dressed and walk somewhere and get a coffee and maybe a breakfast sandwich, and get the day started. i can't stand when i'm staying at someone's house and it's >9:30 and everyone is just hanging out, not even dressed, with no plans to do anything. yes, i have issues.
i generally wake up early, almost immediately get dressed and walk somewhere and get a coffee and maybe a breakfast sandwich, and get the day started. i can't stand when i'm staying at someone's house and it's >9:30 and everyone is just hanging out, not even dressed, with no plans to do anything. yes, i have issues.
Posted on 6/9/23 at 1:13 pm to LouisianaLady
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I think the worst was just that they wanted to eat the worst food possible versus explore local places. IHop, Hardee's, etc.
Yeah, that doesn't align with my vacation style at all.
Last beach trip we even tried to find local spots for en-route lunch stops because we didn't have the dogs with us.
Definitely all local once we got to the destination, although the majority of the meals were cooked at the beach house.
Posted on 6/9/23 at 2:19 pm to LSUBoo
When I was a kid, we planned a trip to California. It coincided with something my dad was doing for the military. A week before we were to leave it was canceled.
My wife and I were about to leave for a vacation when I noticed I had a call from my boss as I was shutting my computer down. That was odd, so I called him. Found out I had just been laid off. We canceled that trip.
My wife and I were about to leave for a vacation when I noticed I had a call from my boss as I was shutting my computer down. That was odd, so I called him. Found out I had just been laid off. We canceled that trip.
Posted on 6/9/23 at 3:58 pm to fr33manator
Had our trip to Key West all set last year. Plane tickets, hotel, sunset cruise all confirmed. Then, Hurricane Ian says “not so fast”. Had to cancel everything two days before we were scheduled to leave. Gonna try again this year early September- fingers crossed
Posted on 6/9/23 at 5:40 pm to fr33manator
Happened to me too baw. Jaxson made the 8u all star team and now his ball tournament is the same weekend we scheduled our trip for
Posted on 6/9/23 at 6:19 pm to SpotCheckBilly
Sounds like a terrible boss. I had one a short time that would tell two of my employees that "they needed to talk with him" as soon as they returned from vacation. He did this for the sole reason of ruining their vacation (worrying). I told them both to ignore him, they were good employees. Got him fired soon thereafter.
Posted on 6/9/23 at 6:23 pm to Packer
quote:gawd damn y’all marry some dumb bitches
For example, when we went to Puerto Rico, she found a cool thing to see in San Juan...on the Canary Islands
Posted on 6/9/23 at 6:31 pm to fr33manator
My wife got a stomach bug on the way to our Honeymoon..... Was awesome.
Posted on 6/9/23 at 6:42 pm to fr33manator
Disappointing, yes. Enjoy your trip though! Sounds nice. Hopefully you aren’t out any money from them by prepaying. I’d ask for their share, if so.
Posted on 6/9/23 at 7:52 pm to TigerDeacon
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to me, if you decide to cook, you go to a local market there and see what's fresh and what you want to have
I'm trying to shoot the middle ground here, if you wait to buy stuff on the coast from the one grocery that isn't Piggly Wiggly for 12+ people staying in a house on Orange Beach, you're going to spend 50% more than you would if you stopped in Mobile at a Sam's and gotten a whole tenderloin, etc.
However, as an example, breakfast for seven days will involve eggs, cheese, tortillas, pancakes, bacon, and sausage, milk, OJ, butter and syrup. That's it. You want a box of Cap'n Crunch, have at it.
Nobody is cooking gourmet food on VRBO/AirBnB pans, with knives I didn't bring (I'm not super picky, but FML if I haven't struggled to open a package of cheese for quesadillas with a knife in the drawer), I'm not bringing Sous Vide equipment on a trip, etc. Other than breakfast, kids can pretty much roll with a charcuterie board and sun exhaustion on most days.
I think the best policy is that you agree on a limited amount of dinners (no more than 20%) that will be group dinners, buy for that, and everyone else can go to the unmentionable place. Watch a couple of episodes of Below Deck, and it'll make sense.
I will add that the base point of this thread is that people need to pay when they commit. No refunds. Do NOT be the person that puts down a card for a reservation without significant $ from every party that is supposed to stay there. You have all the risk, they have no incentive to not do something else. If you've paid, and you lose the money, I don't care. One can't easily rebook from a 9 bedroom house into a five bedroom house two weeks out.
Horrible, inconsiderate MFers. Almost always driven by women, and their husband's inability to push how bad that behavior is, given what I'm assuming in multi-thousand dollar reservations.
Posted on 6/9/23 at 8:07 pm to fr33manator
Be glad because it’ll be more fun with 5 than 14
Posted on 6/9/23 at 8:11 pm to fr33manator
Have seen many a friend ship ruined on a 7 day trip. shite show after shite show.
Posted on 6/9/23 at 8:25 pm to Cregg
Once everyone is five or six years out of college, you either can afford a separate room, of you can't afford to go. Once your kids are 5/6+ you can re-calibrate, and it may be different. Renting a house is different, but you must establish rules (once your S/O leaves the hot tub, you leave too, etc.). Otherwise, it's Penthouse Letters time.
1) You or friend have serious woman involved. <-F no. Not only do the women not like either of you, they likely don't like each other. Everyone is just tolerating each other to get married.
2) You and friend have women that supposedly like each other. <- F no, they will gang up on the both of you.
3) Scandoval. Look it up on Hulu. He's one of the dumbest people on the planet, but everyone, especially the women, have to be verified for "handsy" potential. Everyone may want a divorce, but it's a shitty 8+ hour drive back to where you started from when your S/O knows that her "friend" was holding your junk two nights ago.
1) You or friend have serious woman involved. <-F no. Not only do the women not like either of you, they likely don't like each other. Everyone is just tolerating each other to get married.
2) You and friend have women that supposedly like each other. <- F no, they will gang up on the both of you.
3) Scandoval. Look it up on Hulu. He's one of the dumbest people on the planet, but everyone, especially the women, have to be verified for "handsy" potential. Everyone may want a divorce, but it's a shitty 8+ hour drive back to where you started from when your S/O knows that her "friend" was holding your junk two nights ago.
Posted on 6/9/23 at 10:18 pm to jeffsdad
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Sounds like a terrible boss. I had one a short time that would tell two of my employees that "they needed to talk with him" as soon as they returned from vacation. He did this for the sole reason of ruining their vacation (worrying). I told them both to ignore him, they were good employees. Got him fired soon thereafter.
More like a terrible company. Big company bought us, changed our business model, took a 200-man company down to about 20 in four years. Two whole departments were sacked that day.
Posted on 6/9/23 at 11:23 pm to fr33manator
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I know. I shouldn't even complain because at least I'll have a vacation. A lot can't. It's just all these plans are now kaput. Sucks
It does suck, but learn a lesson from it.
For every person outside your nuclear family who is involved in your plans, the potential for a CF goes up exponentially.
You just can't rely on people to make plans and keep them anymore.
Sad but true.
Posted on 6/9/23 at 11:56 pm to fr33manator
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Then someone else can't get the time off. Then another.
I don't understand how this is possible. I put in time off requests as early as possible.
This post was edited on 6/9/23 at 11:57 pm
Posted on 6/10/23 at 12:01 am to imjustafatkid
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I don't understand how this is possible.
The entire thread is about unreliable people that make commitments they have little to no intention of keeping.
Posted on 6/10/23 at 6:04 am to SquatchDawg
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Brother, I feel your pain. There isn’t enough recognition for the dads out there that bust their arse and do their best to deliver for the family but have to deal with all the shite that entails. The fact that you even went the extra mile for extended family is worth some stripes. I raise glass to you tonight. frick it…go have fun.
With all of the bullshite snarky posts we make around here this was actually nice to read.
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