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| I'm 13 and a few months ago my aunt who lives in Arizona died of brest cancer. My whole family went down to Arizona to the funeral. My family which consisted of my mom, my dad, my sister, my brother, and me each had 1 suitcase each packed with clothes because we were staying in Arizona for a week and a half. So the morning before the funeral day we were on a plane heading for Arizona. Well my Momgets extremely bad motion sickness and she hadnt eatin anything for breakfast that morning and took a lot of headache medicane because she had a headache. Well that headache medicane made her extremely sick that when we arrived in Arizona my Momhad to be taken off of the plane in a wheelchair. She spent about 3 hours laying in the airport corner. While she was laying down and resting the rest of my family did the normal boring sitting and waiting untill our bags came in to the airport. After about 20 minutes of waiting for our bags we noticed that our bags werent there. Th ey had been lost somehow!! So we went to the airport office and asked them about it and they said it happens once in a while and that theyd try to get them back. Ok so my mom is feeling like crap in an airport corner, and our whole family has no clothes or anything for a week and a half! After my Momfelt better we couldnt go and get any more clothes because all of our money was in my dads suitcase!! We had to stay at my uncles extremely small house with him and his 2 very annoying kids!! 1 of them was about 3 and wanted to play every 5 seconds and the other was 15 and gothic! She complained 24/7!! We all had to wear the clothes we wore on the plane for a week and a half! We would wear them one day and wash them that night and wear the next...etc. That weekend was extremely BAD!! - Becky - |
| For new years 1999-2000 and my maternal grandparents' anniversary, my family and I went on a cruise.My family consisted of: my maternal grandparents, my aunt (moms sister) and my uncle (her husband), their 3 kids (my cousins), my moms brother (other uncle), my mom, my brother, and me.The cruise was going to Key West, Cozumel, Jamaica, and Grand Cayman.I was excited, having never been on a cruise before.Well, this was a European cruise, so we were the only people on the cruise who spoke English.That was a problem.Another problem was that my two uncles started complaining because they didn't have the correct wine glasses.When we went to Key West, the crew had to go and buy good wine glasses just for my uncles, and they dropped the wine glasses on the floor every night.In Key West, my family went to some president's old house.It was beyond boring.In Cozumel, all we did was eat at a Mexican restaurant.That was boring too. But across the street from the restaurant, there was a store with a gorgeous menorah in the window.My Momwent in and the guy said it was $800.So, various people from my family went in to ask for the price, and by the time we left to get back on the cruise ship, it had gone down to about $80 but we didn't want it anymore by that point.It took a couple days to get from Cozumel to Jamaica, so they had on-board activities. In the Arts and Crafts activity, they were doing Needlepoint.What kind of art is that?Anyway, people were smoking in the Non Smokingsections, I won at bingo and the guy refused to give me a prize, my brother burned his hand on a sparkler on New Years Eve, and I was bored to tears.In Jamaica, I wanted to get my hair braided, but my Momrefused to let me because they were going to do it in an alley.Then we went to some waterfalls and I wanted to climb it on my own, and once again my Momwouldn't let me.In the time it took to get from Jamaica to Grand Cayman, my Momdiscovered a gym on the ship.There was a pool there that wasn't filled with salt water.I went in and a rude man threw me out because "kids were not allowed in the pool".Grand Cayman was somewhat better though.We went to swim with stingrays and that was pretty fun.After Grand Cayman, we had to go back to Florida where the cruise started.It was a vacation not to remember. Oh yeah, and half the people on the cruise got sick with bronchitis at the end. I Had An Awful Vacation. - |
| Every year since I was born me and my family go to the same place in Florida, Ft. Myers beach. Thats were I had met my boyfriend the previous year. I unpack all of my stuff and go swimming knowing he wasn't coming to the following day. I was really excited cause I hadn't seen him in about 6 months. I wake up to my alarm clock like usuual. I stay in a house and so when I went downstairs looked in the living room and there is probaly about 10 kids sleeping on my floor. They were probaly all about 12 or 13. Me being 13 kind of confused like why are all these kids sleeping on my floor. At that moment my Momand everyone else that was coming cause I flew in early to get everything ready. We're all like who are all these people. When I look at the other side if the room and ther was my b/f. I went over and woke him up. He said they were all his friends and he thought that I had the house to myself for a week like I did last year, so a bunch of his friends came along for the week. Since jimmy was my guest and his friends were his, my Mommade them all stay with us in 1 room that had 2 beds and 1 bathroom. I ended sharing my bed 4 people every night that took shift and jimmy took the other 9. 14 kids one room it should have been a reality show. -Kari - |
| The worst vacation I ever had was about 7-8 yrs ago after my then husbands mother died. Before she died however, I had spent the first 3 days sitting in hospital waiting rooms with then husbands family. During this time period, we would go home at night and come back during the day. Somewhere along the line, we decided to aquire a kitten which my husband killed when he rolled off the coiuch on to the kitten,accidentally killing it. Much crying and mortification, the details are quite gory. I'm allready stressed out and this happens. On the way over to the hospital, I see a car in front of us hit a rabbit and the rabbit goes flying. Now im in tears from all the horrors of the last 3 days. husbands mother dies. 3 days of funerals, memorial services, wakes, too much food, strangers from canada that dont speak english, people I hardly know or plain dont like. That was also the same week princess diana died and I had to get my license renewed( any time at the RMV is its own horror story) my liscense picture speaks clearly of that awful vacation week in july long ago. I look haggard and suicidal. - |
| Last summer during August, Our family took our summer vacation, to none other than Florida. Of course we get down there and 3 days later learn of Hurricane Bonnie, we were not worried it was farther north and moving northward, the only problem is we have family where Bonnie was hitting. But we decided to still enjoy our trip. The next morning we hear of "Charlie", and where he was heading... towards us.4 days into our 2 week vacation we must evacuate the condo we were in, which was on the beach and in the direct path of the hurricane. We then go to another family members home, and find that during the night we have a tornado come through the neighborhood, and the next morning are told to evacuate again!! We go to our family's friend's home. And find that after all of our packing to leave, and driving 5 hours out of the way "Charlie" decided to go farther east, which was great! We get to go back to the condo to enjoy the rest of the vacation. Then to s it through 2 days of the most rain and thunderstorms we have ever seen! Finally the rain suceeded... then of course a few days later here comes 'tropical storm Ivan'... What we learned... Vacationing in Florida during hurricane season... not a good idea! - |
| Well I went to florida a couple of winters ago. we went to visit my uncle who was dying from cancer. in order to stay close to him we stayed in a small little hotel by the beach. well this turned out to be the WORST desicion ever. christmas was the first night off hell. my Momand I were just about to fall asleep until it started raining in our room. it turned out thata toilet pipe in the french resturaunt above us has burst so we ahd to move rooms. we unpacked all of our belongings and truged along teh moist hall to go into another room. when we got there there was one bed adn a pull out couch. my grandmother was also with us so my Momand her were going to sleep on the ebd and I was going to sleep on the couch. well we got the couch half way out and thenit wouldnt go back in so we had to move rooms again. we moved ito our third room in one night. unfortuanatly that room reeked fo chinese food and there were a buch of heel marks in the bed. we figured what had happend thengiht before but we didnt want to move rooms for a thirn time in one night so we decided to move rooms int ehmorning. teh next morning we moved rooms. that exact ngiht when y Momwent to get into her bed she flung up the blanket and a roach flew out of thebed. there was one under her pillow also. there were roaches comming out of the walls and stuff. it was SO vile and disgusting! we ordered to move our rooms once more. we changed rooms again. well when one of us had to take a crap the toilet wouldnt flush. there were still roaches comming out fo the walls. this was the worset place to be staying. but we ahd no chiace but to stay. so we lived with these faults. we ended up moviing again becasue we didnt wwant someone ending up taking a crap adnt hen the toilet over flowing. we soon found out that in order for us to keep teh raoches away we had to sleep with the lights on and we had to have the air on fullblast. in that vacation we ended up miving 2 more times becasue of the toilet. we moved rooms about a total of 6 or 7 times. that was by far teh worste cvacation ever. - |
| I was going to mackinaw island with my family, cousins,ect. and we were staying in a nice hotel. Everything was good but then things got bad. My brother, sister, and I were watching a movie in the mini theatre they had (it was Maid In Manhatten). It was my first time to see it and it was getting good. Then my parents barged in looking for me and said I needed to come with them. My brother and sister got to stay and I had to go. Then the next day we (me and cousins + siblings) were all going to an amusment park. My parents said I needed to stay and sleep cause they thought I was tired. I was not happy so for the week. But on top of that I was actually going to something fun...not! We were all going shopping for the last day and guess who onley got 30 min out of 2 hrs shoping time. ME.!! So I stayed at the hotel with my baby brother and Momin the kid center. And that night there were fireworks. And since it was a fancy place you had to wear skirts after hours. I had pants + it was the onley thing left to wear till tommorow. So I stayed in my room for the night while everyone else in the hotel was outside on the lawn watching fireworks!! - |
| I'm 10,every summer we go to disneyworld and stuff like that.so while were on our our way to orlando we have a flat tire it took us an hour to find a spare tire,man.it started to rain and it was pooring so hard that even with the windshields on we couldnt see anything(we were off the highway) and no one knows where our limo driver is driving because of the rain and he ends up driving in grass which he thought was the road and got stuck in mud so we had to get out of the limo and when I stepped I didnt even look where I was going that I ended up messing up a good pair of $100 skinny high heeled boots and a pair of pink capris with red flowers on the bottom and a tank top,man so I had to change and then we were on the road again and the sun was coming out but we ran outta gas so we pushed the limo one of us has to stay inside the car and that was the driver we ended up wasting 2 hours doing that and 1 hour for the thing so it was 5 pm we booked a fandy hotel that gave us until 7 pm to get there if we got there after then we coulnt get it in anymore and then the rain started but not as hard we stopped a couple of times to eat and use the restroom but we came back with a prking ticket and fand huddling around us and friends from my school some of them could come with amd sleepover and I agrred to let them borrow my clothes it ends up that one of my friend brothers is the botfriend of my oldest sister and they start talking to each other so I couldnt talk with my best friend and had to talk to my other friends,the rest of the way we had fun and made it before 7,but most of the rides were shutdown thanks to the weather again! - |
| Well, this story isn't that bad and it ended pretty well, but the very beginning is pure hell.My family, a family friend and, I bought tickets on-line for a cruise in Hawaii.On the day of the trip, we went to the airport and boarded a plane to Texas.When we arrived to Texas, I was told that we were going to be riding on a very nice big plane to Hawaii.Well it was big, but I was in the very back of coach (I mean the last seats at the back of the plane, the ones where the seat won't recline).The trip took forever and my little brother kept asking that infamous question, "Are we there yet?".For the video portion of the trip, I had to watch the movie on a television around the size of an average computer monitor (and it was not on the seats).About 5 seats up, they had a divider with a projector that that had the size of a normal living room television or bigger.When we landed, we went to a hotel whic h really wasn't the best.Around 3 days in on the trip, I heard that we left our passports at home and we couldn't board the ship because of it (because of some island called "Fanning Island").A couple of days later we went to Maui and stayed at The Marriott, a very luxurious hotel, which was wonderful until my roommate (not really exactly part of my family, but we count her as part of it), who hates lizards or anything along that line, spotted a gecko crawling on the wall.She freaked out and called some hotel workers to come down and remove it (they didn't get it the first time, so they had to come back when she spotted it again).The rest of the vacation was fine until the trip back home.The flight back home was fine, I even got better seats (no more small televisions), but around mid flight, we had an emergency landing in San Fransisco, California (something of something leaked).the airport we landed at was closed at the time so th e airport was opened just for us.We were so tired that we pretty much slept in the terminal.On my first day back to school, I told everybody about my trip.For some reason, it must be common for emergency landings from trips back from Hawaii because somebody at my school had an emergency landing at the same airport on their flight back (not the same plane).When I arrived home, I lost a stick of sugar cane I bought at the airport.The worst part was, I was sick with the flu the whole time I was on vacation.I was soon paid back for it because about 3 months later, I went on a Carnival Cruise. - |
| This story isn't so much about the destination as it is the people I went with. In summer 2003 I went on Senior Week with three other 'friends'. It was apparent from the start that things would not be fun. We stayed at DisneyWorld for a week. Two of the girls, known from here on as 'Katie' and 'Tish' were a bit too buddy buddy. Not that there is anything wrong with that, but when you're passing notes back and forth to each other in bed and giggling. Supposedly it was to make myself and the other girl mad. All it did was creep me out. The one girl Katie is not a small girl, and she was wearing the TEENIEST skimpiest outfits. It was bad, realll bad. All because Tish told her she looked hot. Then these two 'ladies' proceeded to make fun of the other girl because she had a bad experience last time she was in FL. I said something about it, and they didn't like that. I was called a names (by the girl who had just had a baby 1 month earlier) and thrifty (by the girl who called her daddy when she spent all her money on stupid souvenirs) and lots of other creative things. Oh and I got sun poison to top it all off:) Made me realize who my true friends were, if anything. Wasn't a magic Disney moment I must say:) - |
| May 2005, my school has a special trip for graduating 8th graders to Catalina island.Now, I'd been to Catalina before and it had been great.The boats were smooth and it only took an hour to get there.This trip was different.We took this old boat that rocked back and forth the whole way and took 2 hours.I don't get seasick but a lot of others did.People were barfing on chairs inside (which I didn't know about until I turned around).So I decided to stand in front of the staircase.Then some kid barfed coming up the stairs.So I went outside.People threw up in trash cans.People warned us not to go back inside because it stunk.There was a top level and people were hanging over the edge and barfing on those below.Finally we arrived.The first night, the pipes in the dorm were making funny noises.So we have a room with 3 bunkbeds that me, my friend Keri and my friend Christina were sharing.That night Christina slept in her bed, my friend Lauren slept in my bed with me because the pipes scared her, my friend Andrea slept in Keri's bed because Keri was sleeping somewhere else and Andrea was Lauren's roommate and didn't want to be alone. Then Keri came in later and slept on the bunk under Andrea but shescared me because I was half asleep and she snuck in.Christina was hot so she opened the window.I had just been on a night snorkel and was all wet but at the time I was fine.I gave Lauren my blanket because I had a sleeping bag and I thought I'd be fine.Well, I was hot so I fell asleep on top of it, woke up later and Lauren was laying on it.So I froze all night.Then I lent my phone to someone who used roaming so my mom made me pay the $10 for it.The next night Keri, my friend Vanessa and I tried to pull an all-nighter to go on a sunrise hike.I fell asleep in someone else's room on the floor at 2:30 after we went goofy from sleep deprevation and lauged whenever someone said moose.We acted like drunks.Anyway, I missed the hike and had to wake up and set up for breakfast.The boat ride back was fine, no one got sick.I think everyone took Dramamine now that they knew.Then the next day, I got really sick from sleeping cold and wet that one night.I lost my voice just before I had to make an important speech for my final project.It's June, almost July now and the trip was in early May.I'm still sick, I have chronic cough attacks. - Amy, 14, Southern California - |
| July/August 2004, my parents, friend Nicole and I decide to spend 9 days driving to the Washington/Canada border and back (from the Los Angeles area).Picture this: I'm trapped in a Honda CR-V with my parents listening to...well, parent music in the front while in the back, I'm cramped in with Nicole, pillows, blankets, a DVD player, a Gamecube, Gameboy, CD player, books and magazines.Now, my Momhad told Nicole that she didn't have to bring her CD player because I'd have mine...thanks a lot, mom.I barely got to listen to it AT ALL. I told her to use the DVD player because it was my brand-new CD player that cost $80.Haha, no.Instead she listened to my CD player and put in a movie about dinosaurs which she made me watch by pinching me every time I closed my eyes.So I finally put in one of my favorite movies: Looney Tunes: Back In Action.I fell asleep and she decided to watch another dinosaur movie.She took out my DVD and crammed it in with the soundtrack in my CD case.It scratched it to the point where I had to buy a new DVD.So I decided to play on my Gamecube.She had been cheerfully listening to music but then she decides she wants to play.So I have to play a completely different game than I planned on.Later, she forced me to listen to some weird country song about tequila.Then I left my favorite lipstick in a hotel in Sacremento.I had to train myself to read books in the car without getting sick because Nicole took over everything else.Then my grandma calls to tell me my hermit crabs are dead.It turns out that when I got home they really weren't but that wasn't fun.The last night before we got home, we had to stay in an Econolodge that was absolutely disgusting.The beds were stained and hairy, the tables and TV were broken and every hour I woke up to roll over.I didn't even use the sheet because it was so gross so I was freezing.After that trip, I didn't speak to Nicole for 10 months. -Amy, 14, Southern California - |
| I was 15 at the time when I went to arizona for my sister's birthday. at first it was only going to be my parents and I. But a couple days later I found out that my grandmother was coming, I love her and all but she never shuts up!! I mean we spent 7 hours in an airplane she didn't speak when we hit turbince because she got scaired! but once we landed in was hell!! she got lost getting off the plane, then we had to catch a connecting flight from phoenix to tucson. well we just made that plane flight. you know how in tv shows you always see those 3 or 4 people running thought the airport well that was my family! and my grandmother got tired of runing and walked. but we finally got to tucson and come to find out the van we rented was givin out so we got an ford expetion. I mean that wasn't bad but I sat in the back with the grandmother that wouldn't shut up hten my Momstarted to yell at my dad for going like 75 in a 70 zone. so once my dad slowed down my grandmother start ed yelling DONNA DONNA LOOK AT THAT MOUNTAIN!! and every little thing she saw she yelled it out! I mean like if she saw garbage she would yell garbage our state isn't the only one!! and then wedding went fine and all lucky she ha d her own room to her self even thought she tryed to stay with us! so it was the end of our vacation and we had to go to the airport. well our pudle jumper from tucson to phoenix was running an hour and half behind we had a feeling that we were going to miss our flightso we got on the puddle jumper and got to phoenix ( a town we've never been in before) so turns out tons of people missed the same flight so we had a flight for tuesday and stand by for monday. so we spent sunday, monday and tuesday in the airport.an so she went home on monday because there was a seat so at least I got a couple days without her!! and on top of that our luggage was in hartford while we were still in phoenix so we had no clothes for the next two days!! it was stupid!! And e went on a disney cruise it was me, my cousin jen, my grandmother, and my sister aimee. At the time my sister smoked an my grandmother didn't know about it!! so we flew down to orlando an got pick up by those gay buses that say DISNEY CRUISE all over the sides of it!!an so we got to the hotel and we checked in and everything and we got in to our room only to find out our clothes wouldn't be there until 5ish so I had no bathing suit no clothes an no like anything. so we went to downtown disney where my grandmother told us that we would get 25 dollars a day.which wasn't enough so my mother and father gave me an my sister 100 each. so went to downtown disney and went shopping until like 6ish. we went back to our room. and we staied at the hotel the rest of the night. we went swimming and stuff and during the day it was hell!! were ever we went no matter where she had to be with us I mean my sister is 18 and my cousin jen was 18 too I was only 14 at the time. so we we re old enough to go by our selfs. I mesan my parents let me go where I want with out supervision I mean I don't need a babysitter which she was being to me!! so we were at magic kindom (there wasn't much magic there) we were all mad at each other and we were hungary so I was showing them were we could eat I mean we have to yell at our grandmother to hear!! so I wsa standing there going right there... RIGHT THERE...RIGHT THERE ARE YOU BLIND??? so she turned to me an said what's your problem?? an I just walked off on her and my sister followed an my cousin jen told her we'll be back shortly.. after goin on a couple rideswe went back to her. I had to get away from her! then that night we were swimming in the pool an she said " oo good" quietly. so jen an I asked her what was oo good and she said her corn fell off an fell into the pool. an jen an I just look at each other an swam away fast.so that was our last night on land. we went to the ship the next day which meant that we wouldn't have to be with her an only see her at lunch dinner and at bedtime an that's it! we were soo happy about that.so we got on the cruise ship an my cousin jen was acting like a 10 yearold an I was acting the same we ran off before my grandmother could tell us anything! an we found out we had free icecream and free food all day so when we missed a meal we would have ice cream. it was our reward to our selves for the pain of coming!! it was just soo much fun on the cruise ship. I think I caught my grandmother smoking but I dunno. an hey she did get drunk on night!! but then we had the flights home. we went from orlando to atlanta and from atlanta to windsor but in atlanta my grandmother was like RUNN!! RUNN!! so I learned never go on a trip with old people!! - |
| Well, at the beginning of the vacation everyone came down with this stomach bug except for me so I was really excited.On the first day we were traveling to Colorado we were in the middle of nowhere in Texas.I had to poop really bad but, I kept holding it in.Well, I couldn't hold it in any longer so I told my dad to pull over.I got out and my Momheld a towel up and my brother acted like he was looking at the camper.So if anyone was to come by nothing would look out of the ordinary.I finally went and got back in the car.My brothers went to check it out before we left and now they call me soft serve.It just got worst the next day.At Applebee's we were having a great time.I asked my dad for the clicker to the car and went to the bathroom.Well, I had my cell phone and my dad's clicker in my front pocket of my jacket.The next thing I know I watch my cell phone flush down the toilet along with my dad's clicker.Fortunately the clicker floated up to the top and I grabbed it only to find that when it gets wet it doesn't work.We tried to get into the car while it was about 40 degrees and pouring down rain.We finally got into the car about another hour and a half later.Everything went well until about a week later and I broke my nail.I know it didn't hurt to bad but it looked like crap.Fortunately everything was fine till the day we left. It's a tradition to go to Cracker Barrel with our family before we say good-bye.As we are about to leave we notice our camper has a flat tire.My uncle fixes while thinking at least it wasn't a blow out while on the road.We leave and about an hour later my uncle gets a complete blow out and we have to stop and fix it.We were beginning to think we were cursed.All was good again for a while.Remember that bug I told you about at the beginning well I happened to get it that day.I threw up in the car so we had to stop. My family was starting to think we would never get home.We were on the road again and our bike rack starts slipping cause it was raining.My parents got out and fixed it.As they were fixing it I was throwing up again.Thank goodness that was the last time.At about midnight we get to our hotel.By then I was burning up with fever and blacking out every time I stood up.I got to the room and fell asleep.The next day we did get home only to tell the story of the worst vacation ever. - Anonymous - |
| It was the summer of 2003,and I was going to Summer Camp (RKY Camp) for the first time...well it said in the brochure that there'd be a canoe trip involved.I thought itd only be a day,but nope the oldest girls have aFOURday canoe trip in the middle of nowhere.And I can barely paddle,am deathly afraid of water,can hardly swim and have a bad neck for carrying heavy packs.So as soon as I hear that it's 4 days,I go "CRAP!".Then it gets worse.They strip us down to the absolute BAREneccesities,no hairbrushes,no walkmans,no more than two changes of clothes,no soap,no antiperspirant.So I went "GREAT,now I have to get filthy and stinky for four days with no hope of cleaning myself off." We got up at 6 am to go,it was freezing cold in the morning and because we were up so early didn't even get a hot breakfast.We arrived at our spot and started loading canoes,off we went...by the time we pulled up to our first rest stop we had been paddling for hours,and I had a massive blister on my thumb that hurt like hell.And the counsellors said to wait before they gave me a bandaid.After lunch,we kept going.Halfway across the bay,the sky got cloudy and the wavesVERYrough.As I said before,I'm VERY afraid of tipping into water and can barely swim (even though we had life jackets I was still scared),so I'm just about the only one who's freaking out and everyone's looking at me like I'm a weirdo.By the time we got to our camp site,I'm exhausted and just want to crawl into a tent and get the hell out of there.It rained on and off the entire afternoon,as soon as I put on my rain poncho it'd stop,I'd take it off and it'd start raining again!I also had a very uncomfortable night with my sleeping bag on the ground,with my neck I needed something for cushioning and even using my clothes it didn't work.The next morning,turns out I accidentally left the tent door open thinking I was closing the window in the pitch darkness and everyone's mad at me.We had cereal for breakfast,but with POWDEREDmilk.I was brave enough to try it,what do you know powdred milk really does nothing but turn purified lake water white.It tasted disgusting,but I had to eat it.We THEN had a very long,hard and terrible portage.It was all uphill through rough terrain and thick with mosquitos and blackflies.Halfway through I'm hardly able to walk from the weight of the heaviest pack of all,the equipment pack,strapped onto me.A couple things start falling out of it,as soon as I reached down to pick them up more fell out,until I screamed "I DAMN HATE THIS!" and refused to move,throwing the pack onto the ground and sitting in the middle of the path about to cry.Then a counsellor comes along and carries it for me,and what do you know I was about 100 metres away from the end of it.But once we got there,it turns out that two girls got heat exhaustion and a canoe almost drifted away into the lake.So we're sitting for about two hours,exhausted...then I realize I have sap in my hair.Without a brush,it's HARDto get it out.I had to unbraid my hair and dunk it in the lake,then use a twig to pick it all out.Then I lost one of my elastics and had to go around with my hair loose and getting all messed up until someone lent me a rubber band. But that wasn't the worst yet.Our campsite had been visited by drunksand they had puked everywhere and left beer bottles on the ground so it smelled terrible.That night was also freezing for the middle of July,when I woke up our breath was frosting and I had a terrible stomachache.The counsellors had nothing for it,so I had to sit hunched up against a tree,clutching my stomach and whimpering for an hour.Then I threw up about three times with barely a breath in-between.I felt horrible all morning,because the stomachache kept up and I kept throwing up until lunch.Then on the third night,we arrived at a nice campsite in a gorgeous area.it semed real nice,until we got scared shitless.We saw a feral COW while sitting around,and ran like hell from fear.She didn't do us any harm,but she scared the crap out of us.The next morning I woke up with my stomach even worse,and the sun had barely risen so every1 else was still asleep,and it was pretty cold.I was wearing a military combat sweater and was still shivering in addition to wanting to lay down and die with my stomachache.I finally decide that I'm not going to let this go on,so I grabbed a nalgene from around the fire pit,chugged it down,and ended up sticking my finger down my throat to throw up.Well,luckily it worked and after that I felt fine.We had to paddle through a VERY shallow swamp-like lake for most of the day,and our arms were pooped by the time we reached the end of our trip.Then,it was 11:30 in the morning.BUTthe driver didn't come until SIX pm,so we were there six and a half hours,plus it rained for about an hour.The only good point though,was that a very nice lady saw us and brought us pop,granola bars and cookies to eat and let us use her phone to call the camp.The scenery was beautiful,but INEVER want to go on a trip like that again!! - |
| My two younger brothers, one is 17 and the other 14 and my cousin 20, all decided that they wanted to go to ocean city maryland. Well they booked a hotel room right on the boardwalk and hit the road at 5 am to get down there early. Well my brother is known for getting into car accidents and totally destroying cars. anyway he drove a black saturn that had already been in one accident. they were getting onto the exit for baltimore when all of a sudden my brothers hood of his car flew up and smashed his windshield. he couldnt see so he had to go to a gas station and get duck tape and bungee cords to hold the hood down then he drove all the way back home which by the way we live in pennsylvania. Crazy right well anyway then he got back and took my old car. I dont care cuz i got a new one . So they finally make it to ocean city. When they get there they park the car and go inside what they didnt realize was that they had parked in a no parking zone. The car was towed and they had to pay 130 dollars just to get it back. The next day he calls my Momand tells her what happened and says that they have no money to get home or to eat. He told my Momthat the only money they had left between the three of them was 12 dollars. He couldnt spend it because there are tolls on the way back. He told my Momall they had to eat were stale roles from two days earlier. Well anyway my Momwires them 100 dollars and they start making their way home the next daybut trouble strikes again and thebreaks down 1 hour from the pa state line. The guy at the gas station for got to tighten the oil cap and the oil leaked and the motor blew up. My dad had to go pick them up and wasnt happy. One top of all that my cousin got sun poisining and my brothers owe my Mommoney plus my 17 yr old brother doesnt have a car anymore!-- Jenn, Hershey PA - |
| Ok, so we're driving from St. Louis, Missouri to Hot Springs, Arkansas. doesn't sound too far, right? Well, first we drove down into Springfield to meet some more people that were coming with us and we stopped in at the Bass Pro. When we came outside there was a message written in the dust on our back window that said "Check your tires." We did, and someone had slit them! we had to drive over to Walmart to get new tires, but they were busy so we had to wait around in the parking lot in the blazing sun for 3 hours. We finally got going again, but then the battery on one of the other cars died, so we all had to pull over and wait for help. guess where we ended up going to fix the car? Walmart! So everything's good, except we're a few hours off schedule. then the same car's battery died again and something was leaking. It was a Sunday night so nobody was open. so we waited and got it fixed the next morning. The battery decided to die three more tim es on our way, and we got to our condo late Monday night. It rained half the time so we didn't get to go out in the boats much.Oh, yeah, and did I mention that we had 4 bedrooms and 1 kitchen and 2 bathrooms for 25 people?~~Anonymous, St. Louis, Missouri - |
| One time we were up in Minnesota visiting my Granny, and as soon as we pulled up in her driveway something went wrong with the car.It's a good thing we were already there or else we would have been stranded on the road.Dad stayed in the garage the next day trying to fix the car and had it propped up on two by fours and I went out to check on him every so often.I went back into the house to talk to my Granny and he comes into the basement crying out "HELP HELP!" We thought he needed some help with someone handing tools to him, we went downstairs and found him laying on the floor holding his head.Blood was on the floor.The car had fallen on his head and broke his eye socket bone!We went to the hospital and everything turned out okay.But man did he have a big black eye! - Louise - |
| My family and I were going down to florida for vacation. It was also the day that the Tropical Storm Arlene was supposed to hit. So instead of going all the way down to the panhandle of floriday, we made reservations to stay in Mississippi. But on the actual day we were heading down, the news said that the storm was going directly where we were supposed to stay. Sowe called about 500 hotels and finally found one that was open. We ordered a suite (we had 7 people). When we actually got there, all that was left was one small room with 2 queen size beds. They had accidentally gave our room away. so three of us had to sleep on the floor, because they also happedned to be out of cots because all the people in florida had come to get away fromthe storm. The next day, part of the hurricane hit where we were in Alabama and completely missed Mississippi! And that night, the weather people had decided that the eye of the storm would hit florida, since they messed up and it hadn't actually hit yet. Since there was nothing we could dobecause we were staying on an island and the bridges were closed, we were forced to stay in the cramped room another night! The next day (Sunday) we decided to go to florida, but when we got there, the pool of the hotel we were supposed to stay at was completely ruined! They said it would take a week or two to get it up and running. We had decided we couldn't stay somewhere without apool! So we were scrambling to find a place! Finally we found somewhere nice about an hour away, andit had openings. We took an empty room right away. But when we got there, we discovered the couchand carpets were disgusting! We decided instead of trying to find another place we would wear flipflops and put a sheet on the couch. Later that week, we checked back at the place we were supposed to stay at and the pool was all fixed up! It made us so angry! Plus later that same day we found that out, a shark was found on our beach! - Kelsey - |
| Ok here it is. First off it was a camp trip with my 6th grade team( which my parents paid for;-) We were supposed to go for 5 days but it rained for 3 of them. So the 2 days we got to go were terrible in a kind of i-wanna-go-home way. Day 1: We found out we had to sleep in these uncomfortable bunks with the horses running outside of our cabin whenever the wanted.so it meant absolutely no sleep. Then we met the guys we were teamed up with for those days. one guy I knew since kindergarten but hated(my luck). So after i got over that we had to go rockclimbing which wasn't so good considering i'm absolutely terrified of heights(ughh). next we had to go to a river to examine insects(what fun). After that activity was done we had been scheduled to go horseback-riding. first my horse was at the end of the group and wouldn't stop eating(which wasn't allowed) so I had to hurry to catch up.and the she decided to run to catch up(what fun it is to almost fall off of a horse). So after that was done I had a night of no sleep whatsoever. Nex t day started a little better but still terrible in its own way. We sat for about an hour on hot cement doing arts and crafts until it was time to move on. Next up was to dig a long hole for water to come in. my 2 friends I thought I could work with left me to work with the guy that I hated and his friends. Later that night we had to re-enact older times where we had to sing to get past "guards"(teachers and camp workers). Next thing I know 2 guys come riding up on horses shooting off fake guns and ordering us to lay in the grass then jump back to our feet in like 10 seconds. After that was over I was so glad just to get home. After that "trip" I really respected the thought of being home all the time. THIS IS HOW MY WIFE AND I "CELEBRATED" OUR ANNIVERSARY. WE WAITED FOR YEARS FOR THIS..HERE WE GO.. We received this "vacation" from my parents who had taken a trip to Africa about 2 months prior and they said that they had been given a vacation package from Ramada Plaza Resorts.We did the entire transfer process with in a few days and scheduled our trip.We bought all our plane tickets ( $700.00 worth) and took time off work (about 5 days a piece) and prepared for our upcoming trip.Throughout this entire process which took about 2-3 weeks, in which we called numerous times, we were NEVER told about it being a Time Share Tour, nor were my parents ever informed of this before they gave it to us.However, we arrived in Orlando on the afternoon of June 20, 2005 and were looking forward to getting to the hotel.But unlike my wife had been told by the agent working with us from Ramada, there was no shuttle from the airport to the hotel, so we had to pay $50.00 to go 20 miles down the road to 3155 South John Young Parkway, Orlando, FL 32805, Ramada Plaza 1000.When we arrived at this hotel that looked like it had been through a hurricane the day before, we carried our own luggage upstairs at the entry, after opening our own doors and walked to the counter.We were informed that we would need to go to the welcome center to check in since we had a vacation package.We went to the welcome center and were "greeted" by a guy wearing baggy khaki pants and an un-tucked Polo shirt that just walked passed us and sat down at a desk.We assumed that we were supposed to follow him and sat down as well.He asked our names and got some more info and started to tell us about our tour that we would be taking.To make a long story short, we had never heard of it, he didn't really want to explain it and ended up YELLING at my wife because he couldn't read our minds!!I didn't get his name, all I know is he looks possibly Spanish or Cuban, about 6' tall, dark longer hair, not the blonde white guy, and the worst attitude I've ever seen, he must not get paid or something.But he eventually shut his mouth and we went to our room.(# 444)We unpacked and got some rest and made our way down for dinner around 8pm that night.We were POINTED to a table and then left alone for about 5 minutes.We assumed, since it was a buffet, that we were supposed to get our own food and so we went to the serving line and discovered the 1 pork-chop, several pieces of dry chicken and mashed potato's.I couldn't wait to pay $11.99 a person for this meal.So we ate and left, leaving no tip since we had to stop the waiter and ask for something to drink, because he never acknowledged us the entire time we were there.We returned to our room and went to bed.We woke up the next morning looking forward to spending the day getting hassled to buy a time share and made our way to breakfast.Once again there was not enough food, complimented by the rubber waffles and watery eggs, doesn't that sound good!!The waitress was horrible and couldn't speak English, but we were starting get used to this hotel and it really didn't surprise us anymore.We left to our time share tour that was supposed to last for 2 hours and spent the day trying to avoid the kamikaze salesman who would trade their children to have someone buy one of these things and 6 hours later were released.So it's now 5 pm on our 2ND day on vacation and we have done NOTHING.We rented a car when we found out again that the hotel had no shuttle to Disney World like they had told us they would and then went to eat at Wendy's, we didn't want to spoil ourselves in your hotel restaurant any longer, and relaxed and eventually went to bed.Over the next 2 days we continued to experience little things here and there that eventually became expected from this hotel and were no longer shocking.Is this usually how you treat customers that come to your hotel chain.I have told and am continuing to tell everyone I know to NEVER do anything or stay anywhere remotely associated with Ramada.It is by far the most incredible thing I or my wife have ever experienced.We both would like to thank your hotel for ruining the one week that we are supposed to be able to enjoy.I will never forget this experience and I can only hope that this letter might possible help your company to change their ways before you ruin 100's of other vacations. - |
| I went to England for 5 days two of them on the plane traveling (from Chicago to UK then back to Chicago) It was a Monday that we'd arrive (me and my girlfriend) I could not fall asleep on the plane from excitement so I watched silly movies and listened to my MP3 all night (or day?) when we land in the UK it was Monday morning around 6am. Me and my friend are starving and we have to wait for our client to pick us up. He is there 2 hours late.. at the smelliest airport( reeks like old people and mold) we get into the cab and head towards the city. (I could just see the pounds adding up in his head- $160) We arrive into the city and of course we can not get into the room until 1pm.. so what in are we going to do? find food! we have to wait for everything to open up and everything is double what we would pay in the states.. (luckily I am not paying for anything but I do see the client already worring about how much this trip is going to cost him) we find this french sandwich shop and me and my girlfriend have to eat the smallest sandwich trying not to look like monster eater's (which we are) so still starving we walk around act like we know were where heading and the get lost..by the time we get back to the hotel I am totally wasted with exhaustion so I pass out until 6pm ( waste of time) get up and go look at the sites take some pics try to find a decent club- no such luck I wanted a rock bar in the UK they think 'rock' is our 'pop' I don't think so! so there was our sucky "played out" music everywhere and some guys in the bar had some smoky smoke so I partook and It was really bad compared to what I get here. We left looked for a strip club some girl didn't want to let us in because we were girls..( with money?!!) so tried to find a kool pub but no such luck they all close @11pm(??) it just goes on and on.. the next day we have a small breakfast and head up to Camden and I find this guy who sells sh-rooms and I ask " Is this for real?" he says" Your not in America"-"No Really!!" I say!! So I get the weakest stuff I could. My Friend was getting her hair done and I wanted to buy some stuff but again my money is nothing and everyone is closing shop at 7pm..(??) so then I wait for my girl to finnish up and then we haeded over to this kool pub and they shut down food service@ 9pm which is pretty normal..(??) I start taking the sh-rooms at 10pm.. I find these American cats to talk to and offer them some they say "no" I say I can't feel them so I proceed to Finnish 7-8 more.. can't feel nothing till 12:30-1am when my girl says she'd hungry and wants to get Indian food.. ( no offense just not my cup of tea) So I am starting to feel the effects and trying to look normal. The head waiter insist that I not put my feet up and not be so bluntly rude. I try to be nice by talking to another waiter who was much kooler and hungover.. I couldn't stand the smell of the food and the client we were with was giving me the creeps.. and smoking to many french fags of which I have had too many since arrival. So when she was finished we headed into a cab with the cutest guy in all the UK and he drove us back to our hotel.. my Friend goes back to bed and I start seeing and hearing all sorts of messed up things..I consider my self a semi pro at this stuff and I have had sh-rooms before..what gives? I start to feel like I'm going to explode and or die! then I wake my friend up and she give me some of her asthmatic inhaler and then I am sort of back to normal. This is only 3am and I can not go back to bed my inner clock is all messed up...So I watch the BBC were they were totally talking down about us Americans.. God I missed home by now but I had to be perky that morning because I had a full day of video shooting in the country side..ahhh! So I packed and another client picked us up and then the ride out to the country was 2 hours.. theshoot was long and intense and I barely had any energy and when we were finished we headed back to the city and I passed out in the car of exhaustion and when we got back we went to china town to eat and then to Soho and that was kool (I seen Wilmer from the 70's show).. the next day we did some normal stuff nothing bad happened but on the plane ride back I got the flu immediately and suffered through the whole 9 hour flight when we finally reached new york a bunch of kids in front of us were singing God Bless America and I cried.. I was sick for almost two weeks after. Thank god I missed the bombing that only happened 3 days after I left... - |
| I went on a lads holiday to Mallorca which on the whole was a good laugh. However, one night we went to a jazz bar where we met a couple of girls. I ended up chatting to one of them till the bar closed and she asked if I wanted to come back to hers. like many blokes I accepted. Back at her place we had a few more drinks and ended up kissing on the sofa. She said she wanted to take it upstairs so we headed to her bedroom. Once up there, I quickly removed all my clothes, but to my shock she burst out laughing. Foolishly I asked her what she was laughing about, and she told me mine was the smallest she had ever seen. I was so embarrased. She eventually told me she was tired and told me to go. The next day I saw the same girl on the beach with a load of her friends. when I walked passed they all begun to laugh and asked me how the little fella was. I will never forget that holiday for all the wrong reasons. Samir, London - |
| On a weekend we went camping.the people we went camping with would talk and stuff and we could hear them.the second night we went camping everyone had gone to bed and my brother had just dimmed the lights and just zipped up the tent and we heard somethin screamin we thought it was them and they thought it was us.it sounded lke a child screamin!! then it hollered again my brother and his wife jumped up and we jumped up.everybody came outside and we told each other about how we thought that it was them!mike let the dog go and he started barking!all the kids and my sister-in-law got in her tentand she said its like a all you can eat buffet!and we set there a few min. then my sister-in-law got her cell and truck keys and said I got 911 and a truck!! After about 20 min my stepdad said lets go home so we packed and went home at 1:00 am we havent went campin since-sarah - |
| My family and I went on vacation one year to Lake George.We brought our boat and were expecting to have a great time, just as we had in past years.When we went to launch the boat, we realized that we had lost the hub cap for one of the trailer tires.We couldn't put that tire into the lake now, it would have serious dammage, so we covered the tire in a couple of garbage bags and continued launching.Later that week, our van needed new brakes because we had forgotten to get new ones before we came and the ride there (which is all uphill) really did them in.So we had to find a place to fix them.Later in the week, our boat broke down and we had to have the marina fix it.But, as you can immagine, we couldn't get back to the campground without our boat, so we had to hang out at the marina for an entire day. - |
| The night before we were to fly off to California to visit our cousins, my family stayed at a hotel by the airport.Our flight was at 6:00 AM, so we were up at like 2:00 am.Just as we were ready to leave, but not quite ready, the fire alarm sounds."THERE HAS BEEN AN EMERGENCY REPORTED IN THE BUILDING, EVERYBODY MUST EVACUATE WITHOUT USING THE ELEVATIORS,"Luckly we were almost ready to leave, but in order to make our flight, we had to bring our luggage with us.We had four heavy bags and three carry on's and we were staying on the 10th floor.We made it down and made our flight, but it was a horrible way to start our vacation. - |
| im 14 a couple of years ago we went to cape cod for the 4th of july so we went there and then we decided to go to the beach it was the worst beach I have never been to, the water was freezing cold and the sand had the sharpest shells and I was getting cut up and we were tring to get a tan and the towels kept blowing away so then we went to boston because it was only a 30 min. ride there and when we went there we had the worst pizza and it was 60 bucks so we were walking aroun waiting for fireworks and nothing happened so right when we left they had the best fireworks and we didnt get to see them and when we got to cape cod we asked them where they were gonna have fireworks and they said we have fireworks on the 5th of july so we went home without fireworks - Rey - |
| I was on vacation with my then girlfriend's family. I was on thanksgiving break from college, so was my girlfriend, we traveled from Nashville to Huntsvilleto meet her family then on to Hilton Head, SC.A) I am from the North, she was from the south, her father hates me. B) I have Platinum hair, and three earings in each ear and tattoos on my legs.He is an elder in the Church of Christ.he hates me C) I'm dating his daughter.We checked into the time and everyone got a room except me I had to sleep on the fold out couch.The first night my girlfriend came out after everyone had gone to sleep and we were fooling around on the sofa, nothing serious, I mean her parents are less than 10 feet away. But we were fooling around, some sick sixth sense her father carries with him new that she suddenly had a lot less clothes on than five minutes previously.in the blink of an eye he had the door opened and standing there telling us it was late and that its time for bed, b ut in his slumber stouper he just closed the door and went back to bed.after my heart started again I looked above me and there was her bra in plain view, she had thrown a shirt on just before her dad walked out.this is the first day. We think all is cool that he didn't see anything so we just went on about our business for the next couple of days, well on the golf coursea coupledays later I make a comment about how the couch pillows arent very comfortable and put a crick in my neck.his response "maybe you should stop sleeping on my daughters bras" ..we didn't talk muchafter that weekend. And the relationship lasted about another month..it wasa LONG ride home to nashville.. - |
| Me and MY family were in florida for vacation and we also were looking at houses. the very first house we looked at my mother took a fall in a hole in the guys yard. she broke her ankle. a few days later she threw a clot from the break. she was in a coma for 3 days, and afterwards she was in the hospital, not able to controll any part of her movement. she was like this 3 months before she died. All this from the broken ankle. - Alex - |
| This happened just a couple days before today (the day this is being written of course).My mother, my brother, and one of my best friends went on a trip to "Paramount Kings Island".On the way, my brother asked me for help on one of her games, when I helped him, he kept on losing the game and he starts yelling, after that I left him alone and let him play the game on his own and he yells at the gameboy since he always keeps losing.Well my mother thinks i'm telling him how to play the game and she starts yelling at me (I think she hates me).Somewhere in the middle of the trip, my mother starts making stops at malls where only three sto res are even running in it anymore, delaying us even more on our terrible trip.When we finally get to Cincinnati and to our hotel, we put our stuff in the room and left to go and look around the city, by the time we got back it was around 11.50PM and I needed to check my e-mail, at first we all thought they charged for internet connection in the business center, luckly and unluckly the hotel manager was out on the lobby, the lucky part is it was free, the unlucky part was you need to be 18 or older to be in there alone, aww man, one year off, so I asked my mother if she would come in and "supervise" me (like I need supervision), she said no because none of us ate and she wanted to order room service which closed at midnight, so we go to order room service and my mother dosen't want to go down, she just tells me to go down and check my e-mail (which I need to check every night) and if they ask, just say I didn't know.By the time I get down there, the business cente r already closed, I go back up to my floor (18th floor, and this hotel does have a 13th floor, make sense?) to tell her that it was closed.That morning, my mother and I decide to check our e-mail in the center and she has trouble logging in (crappy road runner e-mail account), all my e-mail accounts are web based and I log in just fine.So anyway, we get ready to go to the park, and the same game thing happens, so of course I get yelled at again and it's not even my fault.We get to the park and split up to go ride rides (my brother is 10 years younger than me so he can hardly ride anything, sorry for all the math, hint: i'm 17) I go around with my friend to go to the Italian Job Stunt Track, when we get through most of the line, the ride was "experencing some technical difficulties" and was closed for most of the day, so we thought "oh well, it's just one ride, let's try another" so we try face off, this time we get through the whole line and we were in the row for one of the really good seats when what else happens but another error, the unit (the part you sit in when you ride) was frozen on the slow drop as it returns to base, we end up waiting there about an hour while they send up the unit without anybody on it for diagnostics (which they do twice for some odd reason), when we get off, my friend gets paranoid (that's the way he gets) and dosen't want to go on any more rides so we go to the water park (boomerang bay).We get to the water park and at first everything goes fine (except the long lines) until I overhear some people talking about the aussome ausie twister and the slides at that end of the park, but at first I thought they were talking about a different water park, I walk over there and the stairs going up were just filthy, OMG I was about to throw up, HAVEN'T THEY EVER HEARD OF A POWER WASHER?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!There was mud everywhere, the only clean part was the top of the attraction where the slide attaches to the platform, and not even that was that clean.That night we stayed after to see the fireworks which were whimpy, they blasted off like three or four, I didn't see more than seven and we left before the 12:00 midnight closing.Before we left, we asked about rainchecks for the next day, they said that we could come for only $7.00 per person with the net passes we bought.Not that bad right?WRONG!!for some odd reason, my mother told me that we were not going back the following day, but like the week after, can't wait for that day, lol.So then we go for the descent home and there wasn't even a point for the hour and a half drive up there, and that took away time that I could of been spending with my father.Waste of good earned money huh? - |
| When I was young and adventuresome and rich, I made yearly trips to Europe.This particular time I was on my way to Ireland to wander for a couple of weeks and meet up with some old friends.I had to fly from my home to a hub in Detroit.Weather issues delayed all flights by close to 8 hours.Understandable, and the airline said they would have attendants ready to help us make our connections in New York.We got on the plane, and sat on the tarmac another two hours.In that time the passengers got to know each other, most of us were on to Europe needing to get connections in New York which were long gone by this point.The airline (TWA) did indeed have attendants waiting for us in New York,they were two young women behind their booking counter.Unfortunately the two women were having a knock down, drag out fight behind the counter.None of us were sure what it was about but they didn't seem to concerned there were people waiting for them to get their poop in a group to get us on new connecting flights.I didn't know human hair could withstand that much pulling!Our group of passengers were all sort of angry and pumped for a fight until we saw these two going at it.Security came, removed the counter girls, two more employees came to take their place.They rebooked us all, most had to wait until the next day, others (including me) were able to find a flight that night.The airline told us they would contact who ever we wanted on the other side to let them know we were running late and would be in soon (this was obviously before everyday cell phone technology).I don't know if the others got this courtesy but I discovered that wasn't done either.The flight out of New York was on time AND (the good news) I got an upgrade to First Class, the one and only time that has EVER happened to me. (the bad news) the person sitting next to me had such bad body odor I spent most of the time hovering around the bathrooms for olfactory relief.After a brief layover in London I finally arrived at the Shannon airport on a late Sunday afternoon (now almost two days late).There was nothing open in the airport, almost now living creatures.I called the rooming house where I had made arrangements to see if they could come get me.This is when I find out the airline had not, indeed, contacted our accommodations to let them know we were late.The rooming house owner was very nice, she apologized but explained she thought I wasn't coming so she gave the room away.She told me to hold tight, she was going to check on some other rooming houses she knew, she told me she would call back on the pay phone.I was so tired I didn't care I was probably being blown off again.I sat down on a bench by the phone just in case she did call back.I fell asleep, apparently not hearing the phone again.I was awakened by a gently nudging on my shoulder.I opened my eyes to find a the kind face of an older Irish man, she asked my name, I told him, he said, "You would be the one I am looking for!"He grabbed my bag and told me the rooming house owner had called him to see if they could put me up.Having the space for the better part of my time there he said he would go to the airport to get me.It turned out to be lucky.All the changes in the schedule sapped what money I had.And this family I ended up with had a small store attached to their house.I worked in the store for a little more money, and met some really great people.It was a small farming community and everybody was drop dead friendly and accepting.They kept trying to marry me off to one of those unmarried farmers.I ended up helping with the cooking at their rooming house too. It some ways it was the worst of traveling but in many ways it was the best. - |
| Im 16 and I have been to Florida about 4 times. Every year I try to get my family and I out of this boring town we are stuck in. It's a miracle when we really get out of it! But anyways...one year Me, my friend, and the rest of my family went to Florida thinking that everything would be alright, stress free, and just a fun filled trip, but we was wrong. My Grandmother didnt feel really good the time we went. She swore up and down that she felt good enough to go on the trip. We tried everything to get her to not go because we knew that it wouldn't work out, but she found a way to go as usual to keep an eye out on me. On the way up there everyone was in a bad mood, people were tired and wanting to go to sleep, but there really wasn't alot of room in the van in the back for me and my friend to sleep. It was a tight squeeze. My aunts friend was in a really bad mood, she drove up to Florida for a little while and switched seats with my aunt at times. But when we got there.. it was a nightmare. My Grandmother had to be rushed to a Florida hospital the day we got there..and we only stayed for 1 and and a half. Me and my friend didn't get to go to the beach at all when we got there. My aunt told us to "go to sleep..its nap time" when we got there. We drove all the way up there..and had to come straight back! - |
| This a really bad story about are really bad holiday. Ok it all started on the plane we were on are way to Bulgaria in Europe in the plane first of all the plane looked as if it was made out of scrappaper I was a bit worried about the plane but nothing else good had to come when we got on the plane the seatbelts didnt fit they were too big and they didnt give my Muma seatbelt 4 my bro cause hes only a baby. Then we were all ready to stay in this newly built apartment when we got there it was five star. But when we got there the rep came and told it the apartment wasnt BUILT they said they were moving us to a better apartment but no they gave my Muma studio apartment there was five us including three little children going to be a studio room. No way so my Mumtried the hardest to get us a different hotel we were there for like four hrs and we were still in our travelling clothes and they were really warm and it was a very hot day. Finally we got a different hotel we went there and they gave us three studio apartments which were still no good but they upgraded us to a better room.so it looked like it was going 2 b a good holiday after all the weather was gr8 and the pool was kool. But no everything took a turn and instead of havin gr8 weather we got overcast days with no sun at all nd to top it all off on the second last day it rainded and poured thunder and lightning all day then that nite I had a nose bled and didnt feel well at allmy Mumand dad went out and 8 odf stayed at the room. then on the last day the day it was sunny I got my hair done it took 7 hours and I wasn in the sun at all and I was really tired so that nite I slept for a bit and then we had 2 get onthe plane I not really sure everybody was in a good mood but we got on the plane and we got our dinner no longer swolled it and I was sickthen I fell asleep until the way homealso in bulgaria the music was on till 6am in the morning. but when we got home everything returned to normal thank god. - |
| Me and my family (aunts, uncles, cousins) went to Galveston island for our vacation.Well a few weeks before we went we heard about stories of shark attacks on the news aroud all of the Texas beaches, but we hadn't heard any of them around the Galveston beaches, so I wasnt worried about it!Well the day we were leaving was perfect weather!as we were walking out the door we saw this thing come on the bottom of the screen of the t.v. it said that a fourteen year old girl had gotten her foot bitten off by a shark the day before.Well that made me freak out a little! Well we were on our way to the beach and I was so excited!Oh yeah and did I mention that we only had $21.00 to get us down there?So that part kind of sucked to!Well as we got closer to Galveston the skies started getting darker and cloudier, and when we finally got to the hotel it was pouring down rain!So we got our condo and made ourselves at home when we realized there wasnt enough room for us to sleep there!so we decided to find another hotel.It was just me, my aunt, and my Momstaying at the other hotel.Everyone was in bad mood because of the weather, so we all just went to sleep that night hoping that it would all just be better tomorrow!Well it wasnt!So that day we did nothing either!Well that day my Momcalled our bank to see how much money we had in our account.It said -$200.So that made my Momreally mad!Well we were watching the newsand they said hurricane Emily was coming!so I was really scared.So when our vacation was finally over, and we were on our way back, we saw a van for the local news, I dont know what it was forbut i think another shark attack happened!I was so glad we left there! - |
| We went on a trip to colorado with my youth group once. one of the parts decided to bring his 9 year old son along who wasnt supposed to be in the youth group. he was sitting next to the window in the 15 passenger van, my friend was next to him, and I was on the other side of her. then there was a couple counselers in the seat in front of him. he started burping and grunting. all the sudden he threw up everywhere! it got all over everyone and did it twice more. we still had a few hours to go and the van smelled horrible...and so did eveyone else. - Amanda - |
| Hi - im 13 years of age and im just another reguler teen. My name is charlotte and this is my holiday from hells sorty! Me and my family went to spain for a summer and was meant to be staying in a 5 star hotel, but when we got there it was nothing but an old barn with a deserted swimming pool and a resteraunt. We were abit worried at first, but went to check in anyway. After we checked in we were told that our room hasnt been cleaned yet so we have to wait in the resteraunt - we were abit angry at first,but went ahead and waited in the resteraunt anyway. Me and my brothers went and had a look round and saw rats and flys in the swimming pool and cats behind the bar in the resteraunt . We were so discusted and wanted to go home. Then when we went into our hotel room the bed sheets had been slept in and the rooms were all dirty and there were cockroaches in the oven . I cryed and so did my brothers. My Mumended up checking out the hotel and we stayed in a bunker for a few nights. - |
| I was in Jamaica traveling with a friend to the capital of Kingston.There was a roadblock and we got pulled over (they don't need a reason in Jamaica, this is common) He searched my backpack.The cop was one of those chubby sitcom type cops with a handle bar mustache. He reached into my backpack and pulled out my tampax container.He opened up the container, pulled out a tampax and waved it around saying "What's theese?"as if he had made a big score. I turned beet red, and told him to "put that back" which he did.Neither of us told him what they were.Some big score, huh?Glad he didn't try to light it!! - |
| I was driving out by myself for the weekend from NH to Fort Drum, NY to visit my boyfriend who was stationed there.My first time headed there, I figured I would need directions so I printed some off from MapQuest.It showed that the 425 mile drive would run just over 6 hours.I was well on my way when I got pulled over in Albany, NY for speeding.Flustered from getting in trouble and wanting to get on my way again, I just hopped back on the highway and kept going, not really looking closely at my directions.I made my way up 87N for over 2 hours, wondering why I had passed the 60 mile mark indicating I should have gotten off.Noticing that I was really in the middle of nowhere and that the exits were getting further and further apart, I started to feel uneasy, but kept pushing on.I reached for my cell phone to call my boyfriend and let him know I was getting close but realized I had no service.It was at that point that I also noticed my gas light was on.I started getting really nervous and ended up pulling off at a rest stop in the middle of NOWHERE.I went inside and tried to use a payphone to call my boyfriend but it wouldn't let me use my calling card and of course, I had no change.So I walked over to a large map of NY state and was looking at it when some man said to me, "You look lost - where are you headed?" to which I answered, "Watertown, NY, Fort Drum.I don't have much further, do I?".He kind of laughed and told me to move my hand about 8 inches to the left of where I had it.I had driven over 120 miles in the wrong direction, over 3 hours from where I was supposed to be and had found myself in Lake Placid, NY with no gas, no cell phone, no means of calling anyone to tell them I was lost.I burst in to tears and started to panic.Another man approached me and asked what was the matter.Kindly enough, he gave me change to use the payphone so I called my boyfriend.The man asked to talk to him on the phone and told him that he would bring me to get gas and then drive me to Route 3, the road I needed to take west to reach Fort Drum, at which point I would meet my boyfriend in Tupperville, NY at some gas station.He told my boyfriend not to worry, that he was a bus driver, and then hung up the phone.So there I was, stuck in Lake Placid, NY in the middle of no where with this bus driver who wanted me to follow him.With no other choice available, I did just that.Followed him right to his trailer home at which point he asked me to help him carry a couch out of his pickup and in to the house.His wife came to the door so I figured I'd be safe since there was a woman there.Feeling creeped out the whole time, I helped with the couch and chatted with his wife for a few minutes.I started to freak myself out as it was 10pm and I wanted to get on the road, so I asked him to take me to the gas station.By some grace of god, he turned out not to be a murderer or anything, and did bring me to the gas station then to the road I needed to get on.Two hours later I was sitting in a gas station parking lot when my boyfriend showed up to rescue me and had me follow him the hour and a half to Fort Drum.Brenna - |
| When I was about 8 my parents wanted to take my 5 yr old sister and I to our first camping trip at Jellystone park; Yogi bear theme.One weekend of everything month they have an event scheduled, for example treasure hunts, obstable courses, etc.Well the weekend they planned to go was "Halloween in July" so my Mompicked out our costumes and tried her best to make sure the whole thing was a surprise. We arrived there and found out they had given our reserved sight away.(my mother was always particular to heavily shaded spots).The campground invented a spot for us.Our spot was at the bottom of a small hill right next to the port-a-potties.Yipee!The pool there was really nasty and had wierd hours for swimming, so needless to say we never got to enjoy that.The afternoon of the costume contest the campground faculty were drunk and screaming at all of us, cussing up a storm.Having kids our age in that kind of environment didn't go over well with my mother.She pulled them aside and gave them a piece of her mind and told us we were leaving first thing in the morning.Feeling bad for what happened my parents took us out to the outdoor go-kart track and we're having fun for all of 10 minutes until it started raining...Bucketfulls I tell ya!!Forgetting that our screen windows were open, rain had soaked all our bedding, clothes, you name it.And to make matters worse, our tent was floating in a puddle...of backed up sewage from the port-a-potties.That wouldn't have been so bad if our tent wasn't so old and having leaking problems. So not only were our clothes wet from water but drenched in something real nasty!Little did I know this was only the beginning of messed up vacations my family endours.- Anonymous - |
| I'm Katie and this wasn't a vacation, it was actually a camping trip, but anyways. Day 1: I arrived at the campgrounds to rain. Then thunder. Then lightning. So we all (my mom, dad, sister and brother) sheltered in the lodge at the top of the hill. After it stopped raining, my Momwent to the car and left (she wasn't staying anyways). I went to sleep in a damp tent and woke up 3 or 4 times during the night. Day 2: We were in the middle of preparing lunch in the lodge, when we heard a big bang that sounded like it came from the road behind the campgrounds. We all went to check it out. We weren't 2 miles up the road from the camp entrance/exit when we saw a small plane tangled in the hydro wires. It was orange, and the tail was crunched badly. The pilot was OK. He told us his engine just cut out. We left back to the camp and finished preparing lunch. Day 3: The hydro came back on at about 1:30 in the morning, so we had light again. Me and my sister and a few other people were peeling corn and I almost sat on a bone. Turns out the bone belonged to a rabbit who became a snack. We knew it was a rabbit because of the foot that was still attached to the bone. I screamed and ran away. We were watching a movie later that night, sitting on hard, wooden, somewhat broken chairs. My sister, my brother, and I went home with my Momlate that night. And that was my weekend. Camping just can't get more exciting. :D - |
| My vacations/trips never seem to go well. Something always has to go wrong. I get lost in "Furniture Hell" in a museum, I get into fights with friends, I sun burn... At my high school, everyone gets to pick something to do. Every year the options are different. Sometimes it's a trip to Chicago, or New Orleans, or staying in Michigan and learning Home Ec...My first year, I picked a trip to Chicago. It wasn't supposed to be a shopping trip, but a trip to do service to help the community there. I was very excited as I had never been to Chicago. I should've known something was going to go wrong from the beginning. I had a hard time paying for the trip as my mother's friend didn't pay back a loan Momhad given her. But we manage to pay it off. We had to get to the Greyhound Station at eight in the morning. I stayed the night before at my teacher's house. So, we got there and waited for everyone else who was coming. There was one other teacher (a male) and five boys. That's right I was the only female student. Oh, I could feel the flames of Hell lapping at my toes. We got on the bus and sat there. I listened to my CD player and read and my teacher sat way in the back with me. The boys made messes and I ignored them. We had to switch buses. Instead of a nice, roomy, comfy Greyhound, we got on this terribly, cramped bus that had a purple interior. Not a tasteful purple. A BARNEY purple. Two hours in that bus and I began singing the I Love You Song. My teacher was ready to cry. Also, there was one small child WHO WOULD NOT SHUT UP! He bawled for about three hours straight. Sarah (the teacher) took a picture of him with her new picture phone. She was satisfied.I nearly started crying myself. We arrive in Chicago. It's raining. Yet again, another omen that I ignore. We wait abotu twenty minutes for the bus and hop on. Yes, we rode public transportation. We rented this apartment that was there just for trips like ours. We stayed in a neighboorhood called Oaklawn (maybe you've heard of it). It wasn't so bad, really... Only the apartment was nasty. I washed dishes before I let the boys eat off them and then I vaccumed so we wouldn't have to wear shoes in the apartment. And then the male teacher and I got into a fight.. Over ketchup. I had brought some from Michigan. Ketchup goes in the fridge. This is common knowledge. The teacher insisted on leaving it out saying he didn't like putting cold ketchup on warm food. Yes, there was a microwave here that he could've popped his food in. No matter how many times, or how KINDLY I asked him to PLEASE put the ketchup away, he insisted he was right. I let that one go... We went to the Mile and I bought out Border's, lol... And then we returned to the apartment. A boy named Dan wanted to go down the street to skateboard. I agreed to go with him. Some fresh air to go with my book. I read and he boarded. I glanced up at him now and then. Suddenly, a woman wearing a stained shirt with yellow eyes came over and asked did I have money. I said no. She asked if Dan had money. I said no, I was sorry. She said thank you, we were polite...And then stood in the intersection, begging money from cars. At one point she called over to Dan: "You should come on over here, boy! Come get me! I know you want it!" I got scared and asked Dan could be we please go home. He agreed...We go to this church we were supposed to be cleaning. Well, the women's room, which Sarah and I cleaned was a disgrace. On the changing table,we lifted the thin little mattress thing to disinfect beneath it...And we found a thumbtack and a lot of filth. In the drain in the floor near the stalls, we found mouse hair, a dirty band aid, and more filth. I almost vomited. So did Sarah. We scrubbed the walls. They turned from yellow to white. The male teacher found a used condom in the yard of the church. (And we had walked there IN THE RAIN mind you.) I said it felt like we were done. Could we leave? Everyone agreed. We snarked on the way back to the apartment and couldn't decide if we wanted to return to Navy Pier or what... Our trip to Navy Pier was okay. It wasn't so rainy. But when we went to the McDonald's of the future, they had no salads. McDonald's has no future without salads. (And anyway, we each only got five bucks apiece of lunch, and ten for dinner. No breakfast. We starved. I wonder if that's what it's like to be in college...) We return home. We were trying to get on the right bus, and we ended up crossing the same street three times, because Sarah can't remember which bus we're supposed to take. A few days before we're set to return home, one boy got lost. He didn't get off the bus. Sarah and three of the boys set after him. The male teacher,one male student, and I remain behind. Male teacher and I got into a fight where he said something very nasty to me. I almost cry. Meanwhile, everynight I got to bed early, curling up on one of the bunk beds with my stuffed bunny. Sarah is on another bunk bed on the phone, talking about how horrible the trip was. We finally get to go home, when we get to the station too early. We wandered around Chicago for another hour and then we FINALLY went home. My Momsaid she was sorry the trip was so terrible, and bought me and ice cream cone, so maybe it wasn't so bad, lol... We didn't get to go to any of the museums we were supposed to. I wasreally upset... I did return to Chicago and had a much better time though. -Taima - |