Anyone Ever Have a Crappy Vacation?
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I haven't but the people that were staying in the condo next to us, their daughters' appendix burst. I would consider that as a bad vacation.
Camping trip when I was maybe 14...pretty remote area on the river only accessible by ATV for the last mile or so. Few days in my Dad broke 5 bones in his foot and was pretty immobile so I was loading the boat and gear mostly by myself and ended up dropping the boat trailer tongue on my foot. Great vacation for a couple of days but that was a miserable few hours trying to get out of there and home to clean up a little then back to the hospital.
I can think of a couple.
One time with the girl I was dating at the time. Took her to Chicago for the weekend, and we decided to go out the first night we were there. She got so drunk that she was unable to get out of bed the entire next day, and also was too lazy to get up early on the Sunday before our flight. So basically, we went out for drinks for one night and then I was stuck in a hotel room having this conversation:
"Are you mad at me?"
"No, of course not, I just want you to feel better"
"I feel like you're mad at me"
One time with the girl I was dating at the time. Took her to Chicago for the weekend, and we decided to go out the first night we were there. She got so drunk that she was unable to get out of bed the entire next day, and also was too lazy to get up early on the Sunday before our flight. So basically, we went out for drinks for one night and then I was stuck in a hotel room having this conversation:
"Are you mad at me?"
"No, of course not, I just want you to feel better"
"I feel like you're mad at me"
Considering that I had a room reserved at the Cosmo this weekend, I think I just avoided a crappy vacation! Last Friday decided to stay home for the weekend and go to Vegas today instead. I would have been at that pool!
I've had individual days ruined on a vacation usually just due to weather when we planned outdoor activities, but never a whole trip.
Took the wife to Colorado skiing for her 40th bday( we had skiid there before)
On the 1st ski run of the trip she said she was tired and out of breath....she spent the rest of the trip in bed sick.
Then we missed the flight home because the rental car van made 12 stops picking up people from different rental car places on way to airport.
Fun times.
On the 1st ski run of the trip she said she was tired and out of breath....she spent the rest of the trip in bed sick.
Then we missed the flight home because the rental car van made 12 stops picking up people from different rental car places on way to airport.
Fun times.
I went to Key West paid a grand for a hotel for 4 nights and woke up the first morning with the flu, was in bed the whole time. Sucked. Last year I went to Austin for 4 days, both of my kids got sick and neither one of them slept at the same time for the entire time. Basically spent the 4 days in the hotel room trying to keep them alive, then the bonus was by the time I got home I had contracted whatever they had and spent the next few days sick as a dog.
When we went to Costa Rica for my bachelor's party and got robbed by hookers, that kind of put a dampener on the whole event, as we lost several thousand dollars worth of stuff, passports etc.
When we went to Costa Rica for my bachelor's party and got robbed by hookers, that kind of put a dampener on the whole event, as we lost several thousand dollars worth of stuff, passports etc.
Went to key west for a bachelor party. We took the ferry from Fort Myers. When it was time to head home, weather was bad and they cancelled ferry home.
We had to rent a car and drive back to fort Myers to get to our car. I then had to drive home to st Pete to get my car. Then drive home to jacksonville.
That sucked.
We had to rent a car and drive back to fort Myers to get to our car. I then had to drive home to st Pete to get my car. Then drive home to jacksonville.
That sucked.
Don't think I can beat getting robbed by hookers in Cento America, but as teenager I went with a friend's family up to Maggie Valley area of NC and got poison ivy really bad on the back side of my knee. We were exploring deep in the mountain woods and came across an old school bus turned moonshine still. We vamanosed the hell out there ok, but the rest of the week I was dabbing up ooze and scabs with tissues and putting them in this paper bag that I had to carry with me at all times, just plain nasty and uncomfortable as hell at all times.
The blisters would heal, but as soon as I walked or stretched out my leg they would break open and the puss would down my leg. No matter where I went, white water rafting, hiking, swimming, out to dinner, sleeping, etc I was in pain and miserable from the intense itching and constant re-cracking. It took 2 gottdamn weeks for that to go away.
The blisters would heal, but as soon as I walked or stretched out my leg they would break open and the puss would down my leg. No matter where I went, white water rafting, hiking, swimming, out to dinner, sleeping, etc I was in pain and miserable from the intense itching and constant re-cracking. It took 2 gottdamn weeks for that to go away.
Jebus, some of you have had incredibly bad luck. Knock on wood the worst luck I've had in Vacay was traveling to Mt Cook the tallest biggest mountain in NZ and it being so cloudy and foggy the entire day that you couldn't even see the foot of this enormous mountain let alone the peak. I will say my BIL had a horrible Vacay as he went on a cruise and on day one got massively sick like several hundred other cruisers and spent the entire week long cruise in the infirmary too weak to move.
Not crappy, but not fun.
Just this past July 4. I had caught up on all my work and was ready to split for a week. My team was at a conference the week prior. They got two hot leads from it right as I was taking off. I had to work the whole time while off. My family was at the water park and beaches having fun while I was working on RFPs. It thoroughly sucked!
Just this past July 4. I had caught up on all my work and was ready to split for a week. My team was at a conference the week prior. They got two hot leads from it right as I was taking off. I had to work the whole time while off. My family was at the water park and beaches having fun while I was working on RFPs. It thoroughly sucked!
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Not one of my one stories, but one from my boss that sounded pretty horrible. Both my boss and his wife were on their honeymoon and being both of German heritage decided to go on a Rhine Castle cruise. They get on the boat after traveling for 2 days straight and realize they are the youngest couple by 50 yrs and were constantly surrounded by the old couples wishing them well and telling their own love story, this was nonstop as they only had privacy in their little cabin room. Day 2 rolls around and they both get the norovirus and proceeded to puke and duke for 24hrs. They got so dehydrated that they had to get carted off the boat mid cruise and spend the next 2 days in some random German hospital. They get out and have to rent a car to their final cruise destination, then travel straight home.
a friend from church went on a 2 week trip to the Philipines and broke his foot on the third day. That wasn't good. He then had to wear a boot for a few weeks after he got back.
My worst vaca personally was a trip to Manhattan where we spent a lot of time on those hop on hop off buses and it was fricken 96-100 the whole time. My kids loved it because we saw some shows, but dang it was hot.
My worst vaca personally was a trip to Manhattan where we spent a lot of time on those hop on hop off buses and it was fricken 96-100 the whole time. My kids loved it because we saw some shows, but dang it was hot.
Sadly, this is now too often the norm. I would like to strangle the life of whatever techno-dorks came up with the ideas of "constant connectivity" and "increased corporate efficiency" and all of the other buzzword mumbo-jumbo. Will be interesting to see what effect "this" has on the workforce long-term. I think the email nonsense started in the early 1990s, but only in the last 10-15 years reached its current dismal excess. So we have not yet had a "generation" of workers who coped with this stuff for say a 35-40 year career.
I am sure someone will pop in soon and talk about "failure to plan" or "failure to delegate," etc. Maybe that applies in certain settings, but sometimes no amount of "planning" or "delegation" will suffice.
I say the people who avoid these vacation hassles fall in one of two categories: (a) you really ARE the boss-boss, and you can tell everyone to screw off until you get back; or (b) you are such a low-level person that no one really cares that you are on vacation.
Took a free Carnival cruise. They actually gave my wife and I a free cruise, we upgraded to a balcony cabin for like 100 bucks per person and tacked on the kids so it ended costing us a few hundred bucks. Mind you we have cruised Carnival a dozen times in the past. Well, Carnival is now the greyhound bus of the seas. What a horrible experience. Our room was below this grated drain vent on the way to the buffet and all night long carts would roll over it and shake the ceiling. Yeah, never again.
And the last vacation I just took blew too... ended up working the whole time.
And the last vacation I just took blew too... ended up working the whole time.
I've been pretty fortunate overall, but did have bad experiences on a couple of short trips:
*First time we went on a cruise was years ago, not long after I'd graduated & gotten married. Went on a little weekend trip out of Tampa; no destination, just a trip out into the gulf, float around for a day & a half with the casino open, then head back home. Unfortunately, there was a tropical depression in the gulf that turned into a TS not long after we left. Ship was rocking bigtime, so much that at dinner your drink would splash out of the glass if it was any more than 1/2 full. Lots of seasickness, no sun, no pool, back into Tampa Bay 24 hours early.
*Last time I was in Vegas, with my wife & a bunch of friends for a weekender (flew out Thursday night, home Sunday evening). Thursday & much of Friday were great, then things went south. We all went out to dinner at a buffet in the hotel. The food was quite good, except for one problem. I am extremely allergic to crab, and most at the table were destroying the crab leg portion of the buffet. Somebody popped open a leg, and I watched a huge glob of juice fly across the table, hitting me directly in the eye. I ended up violently ill that night & all day Saturday, with both purge valves open non-stop. I don't know for sure if it was an allergic reaction or if I got some kind of flu bug/norovirus, but I truly thought I was going to die. Pretty much looked like death, too, since I'd puke so violently that I'd burst all of the blood vessels around my eyes. I was ok by Sunday & ended up in the casino until time to go to the airport.
*First time we went on a cruise was years ago, not long after I'd graduated & gotten married. Went on a little weekend trip out of Tampa; no destination, just a trip out into the gulf, float around for a day & a half with the casino open, then head back home. Unfortunately, there was a tropical depression in the gulf that turned into a TS not long after we left. Ship was rocking bigtime, so much that at dinner your drink would splash out of the glass if it was any more than 1/2 full. Lots of seasickness, no sun, no pool, back into Tampa Bay 24 hours early.
*Last time I was in Vegas, with my wife & a bunch of friends for a weekender (flew out Thursday night, home Sunday evening). Thursday & much of Friday were great, then things went south. We all went out to dinner at a buffet in the hotel. The food was quite good, except for one problem. I am extremely allergic to crab, and most at the table were destroying the crab leg portion of the buffet. Somebody popped open a leg, and I watched a huge glob of juice fly across the table, hitting me directly in the eye. I ended up violently ill that night & all day Saturday, with both purge valves open non-stop. I don't know for sure if it was an allergic reaction or if I got some kind of flu bug/norovirus, but I truly thought I was going to die. Pretty much looked like death, too, since I'd puke so violently that I'd burst all of the blood vessels around my eyes. I was ok by Sunday & ended up in the casino until time to go to the airport.
Recently read an article in Time about this issue. Some companies are beginning to almost mandate vacay time and actively not contacting the person when they're away. That being said, I don't think it's too much to ask to reply to emails once a day while on vacation. It's not like you need to have a computer.
