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PW: GTKY Vacation Disasters

ironmom5ironmom5 member
in November 2012 Moms

A lot of us our gearing up to go on vacation, so I was thinking a fun GTKY might be to talk about vacations that went horribly, hysterically wrong.

When I was 16, my dad decided that he wanted to spend two weeks in Europe.  We spent a week driving around Ireland.  After two days in Dublin, we left for Waterford.  My father wanted to take a nice scenic drive through the Wicklowe Mountains on the way.  After an hour of driving around looking at sheep, my mother dared to ask if we might be lost.  Well, my father never gets lost.  Ever.  He just... takes a different way than is correct.  Three hours after leaving Dublin, we finally see civilization.  As we drive towards the city, it's getting larger... and larger... way too large to be a little southern coastal city.... and soon we arrive at a sign:

Dublin 2.5 km

Womp womp.

To this day, everytime my father is "not lost", someone shouts, "Is that Dublin???"

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  • credcat7credcat7 member
    My frst trip to SO's family cabin is a drive that should take no more than 3 hours.... it took 7 because of a fatality on a section of the freeway where you cannot turn around.... and when we got there... he forgot the keys to the cabin!
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  • LuckyMissusLuckyMissus member

    It's a long story, but my parents created the very misleading impression that they were going to send me on a trip to Europe with my friends after I graduated college, as I had been begging them to do for most of my college career. 

    Turns out, they arranged for me and my little sister to go visit a cousin in Hawaii.

    Surprise! ::whomp, whomp::

    ** Backstory:  I detest Hawaii. We lived there for a few years growing up, but my little sister was too young to remember and always wanted to go visit.**

    The trip was even more of a nightmare than it should have been because:

    1. The cousin turned out to be newly pregnant and was horrendously morning sick the entire time we were there. I have never encountered someone who vomited this often.

    2. It rained for a good chunk of every day and was unseasonably cold.

    3. Their spare car broke down just before we arrived and for whatever reason they didn't get it fixed. Prob lack of funds...

    4. Cousin's husband, whom we had never met before this trip, had a super salty attitude about us being there. It was very obvious he did not appreciate our presence. He refused to let cousin drop him at work so we could use the car.

    5. With no car, we had to either walk for an hour to get to the beach, or try and take the bus anywhere. Disaster.

    "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities."


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  • karkissy09karkissy09 member
    We used to go to World's of Fun in Kansas City every few years. One year us girls wanted to stand on the Monsoon Bridge. Basically you stand there and get splashed by a wave of water. My mom's glasses got soaked so she handed them to my dad for a second. My dad set them on the bridge rail and my sister accidently knocked them off. My mom has HORRIBLE vision.
    The park staff shut down the monsoon and used a net to try and fish them out for about half an hour. They couldn't find them so we left. Mom amazingly had a pair of contacts in the car but we couldn't go back into the park without buying new tickets for everyone..
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  • LovinLife0710LovinLife0710 member
    Last summer we went with family to NC for a week. We rented a house on the ocean front and it was actually an amazing trip! But, the first night we arrived there was a huge argument over who got what rooms (there were like 16 of us all together with like 7 bedrooms). DH and I picked a room that had a bed big enough for both of us (especially since I was 5 mo pregnant). Well we got kicked out of that room, and put in the very last bedroom and had to have 2 twin beds pushed together. And the bed frames didn't allow the the mattresses to touch so we basically had to sleep in separate beds. Well, the horrifying part was that DH was livid about the choice and pulled FIL aside and told him in confidence that 1, he wanted me to be comfortable and 2, I just got the ok to have sex again and we were using this vaca as our second wedding anniversary gift to ourselves.  FIL went into the room they were working on for us (making beds etc) and tried to convince his wife (*new step MIL*) to change our room. She kept asking why? why? why? So FIL blurted out, "Because Tabatha just got ok for sex and they want a better bed." I had NO idea that DH told FIL that, and DH was SO furious that his dad just blurted it out he just stormed out. I was left standing there all awkward Indifferent We never got the room we wanted, and had to sleep separately almost the entire time because pregnant me couldn't sleep in a twin with DH. Like I said, a few days of ocean beach made everything fine, but in that moment I was mortified!!!

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