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| My family and I were going camping for the weekend.The first night we heard noises and decieded to go to bed when we got up the next morning something had eatin all our Little Debbie Snacks...we thought it was raccoons.The next night after sundown we spotted eyes peering at us with our flashlights...they were skunks. My little brothers went to the tents screaming and scared them...they sprayed 3 times.To make it worse they were very hungry.We were being held hostage standing on top of our picnic table for 3 hours by 5 skunks.The skunks were very brave...they came around our picnic table trying to brush up on our legs.My mother thought putting candles around the campsite would scare them away...she was wrong.They stuck their noses in them.One of them tried to get in our camp fire, digging in it for food.They tried to get in our tents and our boxes of food.They fought each other for our trash bags.Finally they moved away long enough for us to run to our tents.We had some trouble sleeping because they were rubbing up against the tents.Needless to say, we left very early the next morning. --Kacy - |
| Ok I am from Austria and we were about to fly there for 2 weeks. But where we live there is no flights going all the way to Austria so we had a flight booked from Durham to New York to Brussels to Vienna. Which was fine with me. Our flight was leaving at 12:40 and we had to be there an hour earlier. So after dropping the dogs off it was already 9:45 and it takes about two hours to get to Durham so we get there at 11:45 thinking we were going to miss our flight. We didn't thank god. So we flew to New York and we had a 2 hour delay there so we just lounged around. I was sooo excited to get on the plane cuz I love flying! We board the plane and get comfy because it is a 7 hour overnight flight. And the captain comes on the speaker saying there is something wrong with the plane. That worried me a bit because the London terror attacks had just happened. So a storm starts while we are waiting for them to fix the plane! They finished up and then told us that no one was able to fly out because of the storm. It was like raining and that's it. So we got in line with the planes waiting to fly out. We were 15th in line!! Yippee!! So by then it was like 8:30 and our flight was supposed to leave at 6:30. Two hours of sitting! Then it turns our we were low on fuel so we get out of line to fuel up! Because of this we are now 20th in line and they turned the movies off! We waited and waited and everyone was really hungry. So they fed us breakfast at 10:00 at night. Finally at 11:30 we took off, 5 hours behind schedule! So everybody was super tired and couldn't get comfy cuz of the seats ya know! Finally we land in Brussels and missed our plane to Vienna because of the delay so we had to run to catch a plane going to Muinch that left in 45 min! We get to Munich and have to get on this bus that will takes us out to our plane. For some reason they park directly in the sun and pack people in so tightly you cant move and we are standing next to this really smelly family with like 7 kids. Finally we fly to Vienna and then have to drive 4 or 5 hours to Oberndorf! I did not want to travel anymore after that!-Red - |
| i was 12 whe this happened it was only like a year ago!!Me, My Dad, my 2 brothers, my sister and my Dad's girlfriend all went to America for 2 weeks we were really excited. We woke up at 3 o'clock in the morning and got to the airport at about 4 o'clock. We got on the plane we were ready to take off and the airoplane had a fuel leak. Our flight was delayed untill they fixed it and got another flight slot. We were ready to take off AGAIN... ...BUT 1 engine broke and at this point we were thinking "should we be on this plane." Our flight got delayed again untill they fixed it and found another flight slot. We got to America about 2 hours past schedule we were coming throuh customs and a police officer told us to go and wait in a room. We didn't know what this was all about. Another police officer came into the room and took my Dad into a different to us. My dad came out after about 30 minutes they pulled us over because of my dads turkish background he is half-cast they searched my Dad! We went and got our rental car and got to place we were ment to be staying in (sand dunes villas) we got to our villa and SOMEONE ELSEwas living in it!! my dad rang up someone to sort this mess out and the worst thing of all happened... ...his battery ran out on his phone!! We asked the security guard near us if he had a phone on him... ...he said no... ...he lied. We went to a shop called wal-mart it is a big shopping store... ...it had pay phones outside it My Dad tried to put in some tokens but they didn't work because we were phoning to england so... we went back to the security guard and my Dad said " Now listen you havegot a mobile phone on you it is hanging on your waist now let me use it I will give money to use it I just don't want my kids to be sleeping in the car."The man let my Dad use his phone everything got sorted out we got in our villa went to go into the pool only... the pumps were broke so it had dirty water in it the next day someone came and fixed it. A week later we went to Wal-mart and got lots of food for the villa we got out side it was BOILING so my Dad said "i'll put the air conditioning on" he didBUT he also shut the car door with the key inside and this car has a automatic lock and sure enough we were locked out of the car with all of our shopping and we had ice cream too so all the ice cream is meltin 1 hour later a nice man came and told us a number of a person who can unlock a car. So we done that and we had to pay $80 for it!! A few days later we couldn't go anywhere because there was a hurricane (hurrican francis.) After that had finished we went out when we put on the radio there was a tornado warning BUT... it didn' come any where near us. On the last day our flight was delayed because of technical problems again we arrived at the airport at 5 o'clock and left the airport at half past 9. on the way home we had to stop in Canada because we didn't have enough fuel after that the rest of the journey every one was asleep except me and my brother so we walked around the plane for about an hour! - |
| My worst vacation was a trip to Saco Me and My mother hated the trip, but we went because it was my dad's family trip to the beach.When we got there, it turned out that we had to share a little cabin with my Aunt Terri, her boyfriend, and my cousin Kathy with her 6 year old, Brianna. So it was 8 people crammed into a little cabin that only had one bedroom. Aunt Terri and her boyfriend got the bedroom.Thankfully my sister, Emmy, and I brought our sleeping bags and extra blankets, so opened up the sleeping bags so that they were like extra blankets, and we laid them on the floor, and then Mom, Emmy, Kathy, Brianna, and I slept on them.Dad slept on the couch that was falling apart.And to top it all off, it was the hottest nights ever.The next day, I woke up with a cockroach in my hair. That went on for 3 days. Finally, the family in the cabin over left and they let us use it.That cabin had 2 bedrooms.But... the sheets look like they haven't been changed in years, and they smelled too.Then we found out why the family left early, in the cupboard under the counter was a ton of cockroaches.It was disgusting!! That night was also that last night we stayed there. For the whole bed thing, we used our own blankets and pillows. -Amanda, CT - |
| My husband and I had just been married, and were ready to head on our honeymoon to Jamaica.Now the trip there was excellent.It was once we arrived that everything started to go downhill.We were told from our travel agent that as soon as we got to the hotel, we would be showed to our room and have a complimentary basket and bottle of champagne.Well, when we first arrived, the hotel made us wait almost 3 hours for our room.Oncewe got the room, my husband noticed his eye was very red and itchy.It turned out he had pink eye!It was so bad he could not even go out in the sun. We could only go out at night.After a few days it got worse, and we finally had to ask to see a doctor, and they charged us $215.00 for the doctor to tell him it was pink eye and to give him 2 aspirin!Talk about rip off.So needless to say it was not a great trip.But wait...there's more. Once we got to the airport to fly home they informed us there was a charge to leave the country (Our travel agent had never told us about that), andwe had only $50.00 left.We were really freaking out.But once we got to the counter and explained our situation the ticket clerk just started to laugh at us.Here that fee was paid already and part of our return tickets.We felt so dumb! So needless to say we were very happy to come home! - |
| Last year, me, my friends Spenser, Travis, Ray, Zack, and the other 4 members of my band all desised to go on aroad trip.Well, accually, we were going to the biggest concert of ALL TIME!! Cuz it was my bands first major show we ever did. We all were so exited and all 9 of us got packed and we got into Spenser's van with all of our stuff. We got 2 hours away from home and we relised that we went north and we were exposed to be going south! So we went South another 5 hours later. Then we FINALLY got to our destination!! We rented out a cabin by the lake about 1/2 a mile away. We all got unpacked and we reliesed agein, that I forgot my guitar and my bassest forgot is bass. And we were missing the bass drum for my drummers drum set. And the papers said, that we can not use other people's equipment, we had to supply our own. So we all went to the grounds and told them what happened. So they accualy let us use their equipment. 1 day later was the concert. So we al l got up on stage and we started playing. I was told that we were going to play "These Final words" and so I started doing my lead solo in the begining. Then our vocalist Marcus, started screaming one of our most hardcore metal songs we have. So we were doing 2 differnt songs. Then I started doing the other song that he was singing...and then he started doing the song I was playing. After that went ALLLLLLL wrong, we all went to the cabin and the lead guitarist of one of the bands that was playing came to our cabin. He asked what went wrong and we told him and we went to eat something..(all 10 of us) and someone messed with the chairs we were about to sit in and all 10 of us fell flat on our face. And the guy that was going to give us arecord deal was sititng right behind us cracking up!~ AmberI had a bad vacation. - |
| First me my Momand my dad and mty brother went to san fran which was pretty cool.then we were going to drive to a small town called fort brag,we thought it was gonna be a 2 hour drive but the road was windy so it turned out to be like 6 hours.the next day we walked down to the ocean and me brother kevin and my dad were looking around a tide pool then my dad slipped on a rock and dislocated his shoulder so we had to drive all the way home. - |
| When I was 14, I was going to Fiji with my parents and my brother. the flight there was fine, only delayed and hour or so, and we had a nice 2 week holiday on an island in Fiji. On the way home however, was not so great. We arrived at the airport at 8am as our flight was at 10:30. we checked in our bags and waited to board the plane. at about 10am an announcement came out, and they said the plane was having technical problems, and would be delayed at least 3 hours. so we waited in the airport. after 3 hours, another announcement came out, and said we could board the plane. we got on the plane and sat there for a bout an hour before they decided that the plane could not depart as the air conditioning was not working. so we got off the plane and back into the airport we went. 3 hours later we got an announcement again,this time saying that the baggage compartment could not open. by this stage we were sooo tired and then, wat happens, we find out that the all the flight attendants were going on strike at midnight. finally we came to the desicion that we would not be leaving fiji that day. they sent us all of to a hotel, which we arrived there at about 11pm. we got a free meal, and then went to our rooms to try and get some sleep. then at about 12:30am we reciceved a phone call saying that they had flown a plane in from australia to come and get us, and will be departing at 3am. we got to the airport and realised that we had booked a connecting flight from sydney to melb the previous day which we had missed because of the delays. we had asked the airline to call the airline in sydney that we will not be able to make the flight, and they said they had already called them. we finally arrived in sydney, to find that the fijian airline had not actually called the sydney airport, so they had no idea that we couldnt have made it, so we lost all our money, and we had to book another flight back to melbourne. we had arrived in sydney at about 9am, and we couldnt get a flight to melbourne until 7pm that night. so we had to wait around another airport allll day. by the time we got home it was about 11pm so we had been in airports for about 36 hours. - |
| A friend of mine told me that when his wife and himself went on vacation to Jamaica someone had broken into their hotel room and stolen a few items well the only thing that was really left was a disposable camera, when they returned home they developed the pictures and there in the pictures was one of the theifs using my friends toothbrush to clean out his back side. needless to say the toothbrush was thrown out. anonymous - |
| This year for vaca I went to South Dakota. We didnt have a hotel.We had to CAMP! So the 2nd nite we were there.It hailed.I kept tellin my Momthat all my stuff was gettin wet.So she finaly told me I could sleep in the car.So the next morning this guy walks up and down the street singin rele loud! Then when I get up I got yelled at because that morning my tent was dry! To make is worse..my Momsaid that I couldnt sleep in the car anymore.Even if it snows! ~unknown - |
| This trip from hell involves me, my friends, parents, grandmother, and the all generous people of Northwest airlines. We were all going to Tampa and then drive up to Disneyworld and spend our vacation there. We arrived at the airport in Detroit to find out that the check-in area was a zoo (which was unusual because I fly a lot and this airport runs very efficiently). We were starting to panic because we were afraid we were going to miss our plane. Turns out that by the time we got to the check-in counter, our 10:20am flight to Tampa left the gate without us on it. We tried to be put on the next flight to Tampa, but it was overbooked. So Northwest had us be put on the next flight to Milwaukee, spend 5 hours there, and then get on a flight to Memphis, spend 45 minutes there prior to arriving into Tampa. We agreed. The flight to Milwaukee was a plane that had to be ear deafening to the point where those without hearing aids were lucky. Other than that the flight was alright. Though we arrived in Milwaukee only to find the only shop on our side of security was closed. This got me really mad with the position Northwest got me into. So after 5 hours of constant staring out the windows, our flight to Memphis arrived. We boarded the flight, but my seat broke (mind you this plane had to be at least 35 years old) so it went into full recline and the guy behind me was just yelling a few good choice words at me to the point where it was a 15 minute verbal argument between a 16 year old and some guy in his mid 30s that spoke with a Southern accent. So the flight attendants broke up the argument and had us switch seats. He got a bulkhead seat with lots of legroom while I got put in the last row which had no recline. We arrived into Memphis after an hour of the cart serving beverages run over my foot continuosly so my foot was not up to the running in the airport in Memphis. We landed in Memphis after a long 15 minute taxi. The gate for our flight to Tampa changed on us 5 times so there was a good 150 people running all over the airport in Memphis including my group involved. Some baggage cart hit me. I fell and got trampled on. After quickly recovering, I made a mad dash to the gate for my continuing flight to Tampa. After boarding the plane, our plane pushed back with only one problem. The air conditioning broke!! So it was at least 9:45 pm. We were supposed to be in Tampa eight hours ago and here I am sitting on a plane that is stuck at the gate for a good 45 minutes. Some kid was kicking the back of my seat and he quickly stopped after I almost yelled and stared at him with the look as if I wanted to slaughter someone. It turned out that I sat next to some really immature jerk that talked about pubic hair with some Southern accent. My friends sat in front of me and the moment the guy sitting next to me, I immediately put down my tray table and screamed the loudest I've ever screamed in the 16 years of my life into the tray table screaming, "WILL THIS EVER END?!?!?!?!" Not only did my friends hear me, but also all 150 + passengers around me. From then on, people gave me weird looks whenever I walked down the aisle to use the bathroom. We landed in Tampa about 9 hours late. I came to the baggage claim relieved that I was finally in Florida, but my bag was missing. By this time, I really wanted to be in Orlando already. We left the airport in Tampa at midnight for a 2 hour drive to Orlando. We got to the hotel to realize check in was closed so I had to sleep in the van with five other people. If you ask me why I didn't take a flight to Orlando, it was cheaper to fly to Tampa. I think after this experience I really don't want to fly anymore, especially with Northwest airlines. - |
| Well we were in tennerife on our first abroad holiday!! it was all going well and were were in mid week wednesday and we were coming back from the beach. my bro(15) and sis(17) decided to run back first ahead of me(13) my Mumand my dad. so they got to the mini house hting where we were dtaying first. as I was approching I could see the side doors open yet the door closed. As I walked in everything was thrown around everything was upside down and not in its place. all our posections we chucked around. so we went outside to tell the security guard and he 'suddenly' dicided he couldn't speack english!! alot of help!! so we complained and got a upgraded appartement!! SCORE! - |
| I went on this trip to Disney World with my aunt, and the last day I felt a little sick, and we had been at the theme parks all day, so our feet hurt and we were exausted.When we got into the airport, because of the stinky weather in Florida, we had to wait for the plane to come in.Well, the plane we were supposed to take was really delayed, so we got another plane instead.This plane was yucky and small and old, and they said because of the weather they had to check it.At this point we were at the airport for 2 hours and 45 minutes.We had to wait another hour, then we got onto the plane and there was all this gum everywhere, because all these people decided to be mean.So we had to get off and then wait 45 minutes to be let on again.It was really late by then, and all the shops in the airport closed an hour and a half ago, so we couldn't get anything. While cleaning, they found out that one of the planes egmergency landing things was not working, so they had to switch us.We had to walk over to another part of the airport(and Orlando International Airport is HUGE) and then wait another hour for another check.We both fell asleep, and the people had to wake us up.It was 4 hours and 45 minutes of delay, and I am never flying with that airline again.JFK was all closed, and they lost one of my aunt's bags.VACATION FROM HELL! Alicia, NY - |
| Ok so this was recently, in June-July (it's august now). I have family members in the Dominican Republic, so my mother, my two lil sisters and I decide to make a trip there to visit and relax. Well everything is going ok, we're sittin at the airport waitin when the flight is delayed until 7:00 PM (original flight was supposed to be at 3:00). of course this is not good, but wutever, it'll pass by. So i'm like a readin fiend and I always carry magazines and books with me to entertain myself in such occasions as this one. I pull out my magazine and start reading it, but my Momkeeps buggin me to listen to the announcements (she doesn't speak english). they said somethin about the flight, but I didn't hear it, so I went up to the lil desk and asked them, and it turned out to be nothin about our flight. So I go back to my chair (which was apart from my mom)and there's this girl sittin there, reading my magazine! I tell her if I could have my chair and magazines ba ck, but she claims their hers! I didnt want to argue over a stupid magazine so I just let it go, thinkin she'll give em back eventually. But then she walks off with them-and doens't come back! I was BEYOND unhappy. Ok so it's like 6:00 now and we're all gettin hungry, so my Momtells us to get some food but not to wander off away from the waitin place too much. well there's nothing good(of course) so we ate some disgustin cold ham sandwich blech. ok things get better, the flight is fine, we get their safely, get our luggage and head to our family's house. i'm looking foward to hittin the sack, but it was extremely overcrowded. it was me and my two sisters (who arent so small- 7 and 8 years old) sleepin in a tiny TWIN sized bed! it was hot as hell and of course the mosquitoes are bitin the crap out of us. well we only endured that for about 4 days b cuz my Momhad amde reservations at a hotel. it was only 3 stars, but I figured anythin was better than my fam ily's house. I was SO wrong. The food was really bad (and I LOVE food) simple things liek fries were cold and hard and pizza was hard as a rock. well I spend the first day in the pool (which was not bad- of coruse, its a pool) and we go upstairs get changed and watch a lil entertainment show (which wasnt too bad). we go upstairs and im dyin to go to sleep, and when i turn over the covers there's this really big beige stain that smelled liek rotten cheese! on top of that the air conditioner was broken (just our luck). so we called about 7 times for them to come change the sheets and they never came. my sisters ended up falling asleep on the couch while my Momand I slept on the other bed. the next day my Momgoes downstairs and argues (in a polite manner) about last night. they have the nerve to say that we never called! my Momand them argued for a full 47 minutes (i was watchin the clock on purpose). at the end my Momis argueing pretty loud and they tell her to lower her vo ice or we'll have to LEAVE!! I have never seen my mother so cross!! she slammed the desk and yelled for them to get her luggage, we were leavin. the good news was we got some money back (they charged us for that first day) and things got better at my family's house, so my trip to the Dominian Republic wasn't too bad after the first week! oh by the way if you happen to visit, DO NOT I repeat DO NOT go to the PARADISE HOTEL in playa dorada!! - |
| When I was 18, my girlfriend and I went up to rent this cottage a couple hours north of toronto. We had a wild weekend there, and were planning out 'first time'up there, since we'd finally be alone, with no parents. Excited, we both made our way up thursday night, picking up birth control on the way, and some additional groceries. We never thought our parents would allow such a thing, but as it turned out, both our family's parents were away for the week,and wouldn't have been the wiser. This was our chance, and we daringly took it. So we arrive thursday night, check into the cottage, and get settled in. We put on a pot of coffee, and then went to make our bed. Almost immediately, we knew what each other wanted. Stripping down to our underwhere, we leaped on the bed, and preceded to make out. The moment must have been right, or something, but it happened right then and there. We lay there for a while, naked, without a care in the world. Unfortunately, we forgot we left the stove on hours ago. A thick black smoke began coming into the bedroom, and we knew what had happened. The Cabin was ON FIRE! Not knowing our way around the place yet, and knowing the head office was near, we quickly threw on what clothes we could find, which ended up being solely our underwhere, and ran out the bedroom door which led outside. We rushed for help, and managed to get some quickly, as people begin filtering out of nearby rental cottages to see the flames. The only problem with this was that, not only were we half naked, clearly just emerging from some 'naughty play', (as my shorts were backwards, and her bra was not fully clipped), but the fact that my PARENTS were standing there staring at us. Apparently the cabin they were renting was in the rental company as ours. There we stood, together, half naked, our clothes and hair a mess, and our cabin in flames behind us. They were not impressed. Once the fire was out, our parents took us home- unimpressed. They were also unimpressed with the $1500.00 damage we had to pay. Oh, yes, and they were also unimpressed when my girlfriend approached me to tell me she was pregnant, handing me back the package of unopened condoms. I guess we forgot about them in our frenzy. Along with the pot of coffee. - |
| Ok, here is my story. I am a divorced mother of 2 boys ages 4 and 8. I am trying to be that great Momthat does outdoorsy stuff with them.I'm a little short on money this summer so I wanted a cheap vacation.I decide on camping.Camping is cheap! It was hot, there is no air conditioning in the tent, sitting at the beach at the state park isn't even fun because the sand is covered with Canada Goose droppings.So I decided after 3 days of bugs, sunburn and children whining about not being able to watch TV, that the day would be spent driving around in my car with the air conditioning on seeing what we could find.At least it would be under 95 degrees. We would stop here and there, eventually we found something called cross mounds. They were build by the Indians a couple of hundred years ago, I wanted to see what they were all about.I pulled in, parked, and we got out of the car.The place was deserted.The sign said that the mounds were up this hill in the woods.We walked up, wow, a giant mound of dirt.My older boy took one look and said,"We walked up here for this? Let's go."The boys ran back down the hill.I noticed that the wind was picking up, so I started walking back, trying to make it quick. I heard a crack, so I stopped, not wanting to walk into a falling tree.I looked up and just saw branches.I thought to myself, "I just hope I don't go unconscious, I'm the only one here with the boys".I took inventory of myself after the limb knocked me to the ground.I said to myself, "Ok, I am conscious."Then I looked at my right foot.I saw a giant hole with blood coming out of it.It was really easy to see because I was wearing flip flops, not the most practical shoes for taking a hike in the woods. "Ok" I thought, "That needs a hospital." I started yelling "help" as I was walking back to the car.The boys came over."Mommy's fine, everything is going to be fine. HELP! Mommy will be ok. HELP! HELP!"I drove and stopped at the first person I saw, and asked them to call me an ambulance."Why?" he asked. I pointed down to my foot."I'll be right back." I felt bad taking an ambulance when all I needed was a few stitches in my foot, but I had no idea where the closest hospital was, and I didn't want to drive any more on my foot. After being checked out, x-rayed, and had random people come in to see the "really cool wound they heard about" the doctor came in to talk to me."Now," he said "for the first surgery.""Whoa, whoa, whoa, slow down. Surgeries?Like as in more than one?I thought I just needed a few stitches!"Nope, two surgeries.Two shattered bones.One bone that was broken in 4 places.Open fractures they were called.The doctor put pins sticking in three toes. Stitches holding the rest of my foot together. Instead of spending the last few days of my vacation with my children, I was sharing a room with a 90 year old woman named Leoma who kept defecating in her bed. Two of my toes developed gangrene.Skin died requiring grafting.How were the mounds, my mother asked.Certainly not loosing two toes over.Camping is cheap, yeah right.Including the 4 day hospital stay, that camping trip cost almost $20,000.Thank goodness for health insurance! While still in the hospital a man came in the room to talk to the nurse taking my temperature.He asked her if they were going camping that weekend.I said, "Camping sucks!".- Christy - |
| I went on vacation with my mom, dad, grandma and aunt. I went water skiing, and I fell and was still holding on to the rope. my swim suit fell of and I was still holding on. then I stood up and every one could see I was naked. then I let go f the rope and went flying across the lake, and I was close shore I could stand, and I did, and there was someones house and he was looking rite at me.i swam to the boat as fast as I could and when we got back to the dock, I had just a towel on. then in front of 20 people, my towel fell off. - |
| My best friend and I had planned to go on a vacation to the beach from Kansas to Florida. At this point we had just graduated and were celebrating with a nice vacation together, our first vacation without our parents around. But of course, we haven't heard about the weather because there were storms in Kansas and the power had been out for nearly two weeks. So, the morning we had decided to leave, we got up bright and early, got in our brand new Ferrari (our parents had pitched in some money for this trip) and we headed out. The ride was going smoothly, until we reached the Freeway. It turned out that a lot of people had been heading out of state because of the power outage and there had been 3 wrecks because the roads were slick from all the rain and stormy weather. So just as the traffic started moving, our car broke down! No gas and there were tons of cars backed up behind us, wanting to get past but we couldn't get our car to go. Better yet, our cellphones didn't have service! Now how lucky is that? So.. we got out and started to try to push our car. My friend said we shouldn't have skipped gym class all thoose times. So we asked the guy in the car behind us to help. By that time he was laughing at how weak we were. We were absolutely embarassed. Wouldn't you be? But luckily, he helped us anyways. He pushed our car to the side of the road and told us he could take us to go get some gas from the gas station. Having nothing to do, we went with him. About an hour later, we got our car running and we were off once again. By then we had thought the worst had happened but boy were we wrong! As we were nearing our exit, we saw some storm clouds moving in. And it started to sprinkle. It had been an hour since the storm had started, and we were just passing the boarder line to our distination. But then, a tree fell right into the road a couple cars ahead of us. Luckily, no one was hurt, but we had to take a detour that took an extra two and a half hours more than it should have taken to get to our hotel. Finally at about 7:30pm, we reached the Hotel. We were so exhausted that we had just parked our car and we just went into the Hotel and signed in and walked to our Hotel room which of course was the top level and the elevator was broken due to the bad weather. So we had to take the stairs with all seven of our suitcases! So we got to our room, went in, and slammed our suitcases down onto the floor and both peeled off our wet clothes and changed into some dry pj's and crawled into bed but then we realized that we were starving. Although we felt as if we were too exhausted, we new that we should get something to eat then. So we got up and went into our groceries that we had gotten a couple days ago for the trip and ended up eating canned chili that we had popped into the microwave and apparently we had forgotten to take it out of the can and it EXPLODED!! By this time, I just wanted to go home. I felt miserable. So we cleaned up the mess and ended up eating some baloni lunch meat alone instead. After our hunger had died down a bit, we headed for bed. After snuggling down into the covers, my best friend let out a yelp. Apparently, she had been dumb enough to leave her soaking wet clothes on her bed! So I got her an extra blanket from the office but I made the mistake of letting her sit on my bed and by the time I got back up and into the room, she had fallen asleep on MY BED!! So I had to sleep on the floor because there was no way I was going to sleep in a wet bed. The next morning when we had awoken, my neck was stiff and cramped from sleeping on the hard floor. I couldn't do anything all day because of the searing pain. So my friend went to the store and bought me some advil-or what she thought was advil. It turned out that she got me some LAXATIVES! When she got back I immediately took 2! I ended up crapping all day and most of the night. It was awful. She had apologized, but by then I had had enough. She had fallen asleep in my bed, made me sleep on the floor then gave me some crapping pills! What could be worse. That day I called home but it appeared that the power was still out. So I decided to go for a walk around the Hotel to escape my friend for a little to relieve myself of stress. It really helped but when I got back to the room, the door slammed shut in my face and I had figured that my friend had did it! So I tried to open it up, but it was locked! As I was about to start pounding my heart out on the door, my friend came walking down the hall and said "I have been looking all OVER for you!" Then I was pissed. I couldn't believe that she had left the Hotel room unsupervised and left the key in there! But I new I couldn't stay mad at her. So we went down to the lobby to get a spare key and noticed two white sheets of paper on our car. So, I went ot go get a key and my friend went to go check what the paper was all about. Apparently, we had parked in a Handi-cap parking spot without knowing and had gotten two tickets worth $1500 each. It majorly sucked. So we finally got back into the room and noticed that someone had broken in and had stolen EVERYTHING! Except for our purses safely tucked in the closet in a far corner. Then we heard some really loud noises and we noticed the voice on the intercom but we couldn't make out anything except "hurricane coming this way duck for cover." Just then the window swung open and rain mixed with hail came rushing in. So we ran into the bathroom,then slammed the door and held it shut.It took all of our energy but we were safe. There were loud noises and kind of a rummble sound. Soon we thought it might be over. We walked out and tried to stay calm. It was still pouring but the worst was over. We tried to call home and the power was out still. So what could we do? Anyways, we ended up hitting the road that day, not wanting to stay any longer and hardly any of the hotel was left and most of the cars had been swept out of the parkinglot, including our beautiful ferrari. So we ended up buying an old broken down station wagon with the rest of our money and safely got home but it wasn't too much of a good drive. -Anonymous - |
| Every summer me and my family would go to rock creek in california. This place was very well known for bears and when we got there we were warned everynight to put our food in our car and cover it up with lankets so when bears passed threw they could not see it. There were storys of bears who broke into cars and other things jsut to get food. The week was going well and one day the zipper on our tent broke. so everynight we were basically sleeping in a tent that was wide open. Me, my sister, mom,and dad. Then one night my dad forgot to put the food away and 3 bears were in our camp my parents were freaking out and we were all so scared...one of the bears kept walking around our tent and sniffing everything. They were tearing apart our campsite. Adventually they left and in the morning the campsite was destroyed. We left that same day and havent been camping since. - |
| We were in Johannesburg, South Africa, about to end our two week vacation. We had just flown in from Botswana and were making our way to the international departures hall when we were informed that South African Airways had gone on strike and all of the flights were cancelled. We were to supposed to fly out that night on SAA to London and then home to San Francisco. Our flight was cancelled, so we ended up spending 9 hours that night in the terminal, trying to get on Virgin Atlantic or British Airways to London. We had to spend the night in a hotel and then we came back the next day at 9:00 am. We had called our travel agent and she had set us up to fly out on KLM to Amsterdam, then BAA to London, then UAA home. We were so excited to be going home, even though it meant that we were going to miss our day of touring in London, as was planned. Just in case the strike ended, we had to spend the WHOLE day at the airport. So, at about 9:00 pm, after 12 hours in the airport, we made our way to the KLM desk to get our tickets, only to be told that we were on standby and might not get on the plane. We were all so upset, I nearly cried. Just then there was an announcement that we couldn't hear but the man at the KLM desk told us that is had said that one SAA flight was going out to London that night. We all got in another line for 3 hours and finally made it through to the gate! We ended up getting to sit upstairs on the plane and we all slept soundly. - Anonymous - |
| We were on a cruise, when we got off the tendor we took a look around before we got on the tour in Grand Cayman. I saw these beautiful earings and my Momfound a lovely lladro.We said we would get them after the tour because it was starting soon. We waited over and hour for our tour guise to come for us.We went with 2 other really nice lady's.We traveled to Hell, Grand Cayman.Then it was time to get on a tiny boat and sail out into the ocean to go swimming with the stingray.(This was the worst!!)We went out and anchored in a spot, we all got in gear if we wanted and headed in the water.They were sooo sweet!!They swim unnder you legs and you can feed them.I forgot to mentition after this tour is when have to catch a tendor(a boat) back to the ship. So anyway we get back on he tells us that we are next going scuba diving...we didn't know, we got mad because we had to catch a tendor in time. So we finished that all of a sudden, the boat didn't start. I was hysterical!!the guy called a hellacopter for us...but finally it did start and the whole time he knew we were late, he decided that it was nessesary to stop infront of every iguana by the docks and huge houses and show us.When we finnally got off the boat, we got on a bus and ran back into town to get the earings and lladro, we made the second to last tendor...luckily!! - |
| My son and his girlfriend join me every summer in the Fla. Keys to dive for bugs (Fla. lobster). This year I picked them up in West Palm and stayed in Delray Beach before heading down to Key West. We make it a two day trip and pick a hotel in the upper keys. This year it was the Crystal Bay Resort in Marathon. Be warned. The lady at the front desk showed us around the property and said that the outside bar was self serve and simply put your beer or ice in the refrigerator and help yourself. So we went to a restaurant and had dinner. When we got back, we walked to the bar and sat down to talk. It was a little warm so my son tried to turn on the overhead fan. He flipped a few wall switches but to no avail. We noticed a lady driving by in a golf cart which looked like the person who checked us in. My son politely asked how to turn on the fan. The women snapped "Your not supposed to touch anything." I replied that the women who checked us in told us to help ourselves, so we thought it was OK. "Who was that?" she barked and "What room are you in?" At that point I wanted no part of this and said "That's ok, forget it" and we started walking back to our room. She followed us in her golf cart demanding to know our rooms and ranting that she was the owner. I said we are going there now. She continued. I said she was crazy. She called the police to kick us out. The police were very nice but said they had no choice because she is the owner and could kick us out. We drove to Key West that night and slept in our Jaguar. The bigger model, thank God. The next day we moved in to our 3 bedroom house. The witch the owns the Crystal Bay Resort is Veronica Leggett. Be warned. Jim - |
| Ok me and my girl friend were goin to florida to try and see her grandmother who had a heart attackthe day before. and the plane went to georgia then to florida. so when I was on the plane to florida I had to pee really bad...and all the bathrooms were occupied and I just couldnt hold it any longer. I had a window seat so people cant really see what I was doing. so I decided to pee in my coke bottle. and so I pulled down my pantsand I started to go. then with my luck the stuartist came around asking if I wanted something to eat. and she saw what I was holding...and she called the airplane security to have a talk with me. I explained my situaltion and he said " well son that indecent exposure and im gonna have to fine you for that...so I got a $785 dollar fine plus you get fined for having to talk with airplane security so I got fine an extra 150 dollars for that. then the plane landed and we got off and she was really mad at me. then as we were walking throught the airport to get on the next plane I ran into and older woman and she broke her arm...that really sucked, her husband got all mad at me and of course I was already frusterated from the flight before. then the guy gets the nerve to ask if I wanted to go out in the parking lot and settle this like men. and the whole time this happend an airport security guy was standing right there. he took the old woman to the hospital wing and I let my girlfriend go aheaad to florida because the stupid security guy kicked me and the old guy out of there for life. so when I was thinking of ways to get back home, that old guy comes up to me with 3 of his old friends and out of no where this old guy smokes me in the face. and then they all started pushing and throwing punches at me. and im a black belt so I was like I cant take it any more this day sucks. so I hit one of them in the neck with this bored that was sitting on the ground. he got knocked out. and then the other 2 pulled out knifes, the first old guy swung at me but I dodged it, then the other guy swung at me adn cut my chin to the bone. so I broke his wrist and smashed the other one face against this car...and the guty that owned the car was in it so he got out and was all mad and he tried to hit me so I punched out his widow and grabbed a piece of glass and stabbed his leg with it. then the cops shoed up and I had to go to jail for 2 year and I just got out 3 months ago. and when I got to jail I hit my head getting out of the squad car, so I had to get 13 stitches. then they gave me 1 phone call. so I called my girl friend, cuz I knew she would understand, but I was wrong. she started cussing at me and then she decides she wants to see other people. so I said I hated her and I wanted her to die. and the cops fined me a whopping 895 dollars for threat. so that day was fun - |
| It was April 21, 2002 when my family went camping. We had three tents, one for my Momand dad, one for my brother Mark and his friend Jess, and one for me and my friend Sara.We were all sitting around the camp fire, when we see all these yellow eyes.All of a sudden, dozens and dozens of raccoons came tearing into the campsite.They ate all of our food, trashed our tents, and deflated two of our cars tires.So, after my dad called AAA, Mike and Jess start fooling around with rocks near a stream, and they hit a HORNETS NEST!! SO they come running back screaming and shouting with a hive swarming after them.My friend was allergic to bees, so she jumped in the car.I did two, but not without getting stung twice.It was my first time getting stung, and apparently I was allergic too. My friend had forgotten her epi-pen, so my dad called an ambulance.FINALLY they came, and injected me with the epi-stuff. They offered to take us home, and we took them up on the offer.However, the driver was drunk and we ran into a hummer. My dad got a broken arm, and my brother has a scar on his shoulder.Overall, that was defiantlyNOT my favorite trip ever. Selene - |
| My husband and I were on our way back home from our honeymoon in the Florida Keys. We got caught in horrible traffic in Homestead and Miami and we barely moved for hours. It took us 5 hours to get through Miami, and this was after the 3 our drive from Key West. Sitting practically still in mid-May heat did a number on our car and the AC just couldn't handle the load and started blowing out warm air. We were sunburned from days at the beach and the sun was glaring down through the windshield and windows and it didn't seem like there was anyway to get away from it. I felt like my skin was bubbling. It is more than a 12 hour drive (with no traffic) from Key West to our hometown and we did not know where we would be stopping for the night, so we did not make reservations in advance. We decided to stop in Cocoa Beach. First hotel... full. Second hotel... full. Third, fourth, and fifth hotel... all full. We didn't realize that the U.S. Olympic soccer trials were being held in Cocoa Beach that weekend and everything was booked. We finally find a hotel by the interstate with rooms available. It looked like a decent place and wasn't TOO expensive. So we got a room, took much needed showers, and stretched out to enjoy some TV for the first time in over a week. (Our B&B in the Keys was VERY nice but was a "getaway" and did not have phones or TVs in the rooms. We didn't mind- we were on our honeymoon!) I happened to look up and saw a huge "cow ant" (the big ones with orange/red stripes that you have to cut in half to kill) on the ceiling. My husband knocked it down and killed it. Before bed, I noticed an unidentified beetle on the floor. Once we got in bed, I felt something tickle my back and thought it was just the sheet or a string brushing my back. A few minutes later, I realized that something was crawling down my side and came out of the bed like a shot. We ripped the sheets off the bed and found a small, squished bug. My husband said we could drive on home right then. But it was 11:30 at night and we were more than 5 hours from home and we were both exhausted so I was hesitant to get back on the road. As we were trying to decide, a roach crawled up the wall next to the bed and our decision was made!! As we were getting our stuff up and in the car, bugs seemed to come out of everywhere. I picked up my suitcase and 3 bugs crawled out from under it. We didn't even stop at the front desk to complain and demand out money back. It was a struggle to stay awake, but we made it home at 4:00 in the morning and collapsed into bed. The honeymoon was a dream... but the trip home sucked. Jessica - |
| Ok, well this was our second time to maui and we knew how great it was there so we were really excited. The trip started out great, we were snorkeling and having an awesome time. Then 3 days before the trip ended, my knee was hurting. It wasn't anything new because I had knee problems before so I didn't think anything of it. That day, I went down to the pool to swim. I did a couple of laps and as I was kicking off the wall my knee popped really loud. It was so loud that people around me heard it and they weren't even in the water! I got out of the pool immediately and went to the room so if I had done something to it, I wouldn't make it worst. Well, the next morning I woke up and my knee was like 3 times bigger than it normally was. I couldn't even hardly walk. It was oozing icky green stuff from the bug bite I had received before the trip (which was right below my knee cap) and it was tight, stiff, and painful on the left side of my right knee. Well, my Momknew exactly what the green stuff was. It was staff. We tried to work it out but it was really deep. For the next 3 days, I had to go all these places (because I didn't want to ruin my families trip) with a very painful knee. The Plane ride from Hawaii to California is approximately 5 and a half hours and I had to sit there all crammed up with a knee that was oozing stuff down my leg. It was disgusting. During our lay-over in San Jose my mom called the doctor and I had a appointment an hour after we landed. We got into LAX at 930 and my appointment was at 11. I ended up having to have 3 IV's over the next 3 days. I had to miss school and the pain on my knee was due to a severe staff infection and a sprained MCL. Over the next 6 months, I was on and off crutches and had to have several courses of antibiotics because I found out I was immune to all the antibiotics they tried before the vacation. So overall, my trip was fun...until this last couple of days!! - |
| I took a trip to Tampa a few weeks ago. Let me just tell you. First off, right off the bat, as soon as we land in Tampa, were waiting by the luggage conveyor belt. Round and round it goes until I hear the lady over the PA say "This is all the luggage from the flight." Great, My luggage was lost. So I had to fill out the stupid cl;aims form blah blah blah. I tried not to let that get to me. So, next stop was picking up the rental car. Since none of us were 25, we had to go to a no named place. So we give the cabbie the address and he pulls up to someones house. In the driveway (or should I say swamp) that was in his backyard, was a '95 Cougar. We walk through his backyard to the screen house were he conducts business. In there; a desk and 2 folding chairs. So we sign the papers, get inside the car. Smells like an old man after a 12 mile walk. The inside of the car looked like a raccoon was trapped inside and was scratching the roof to get out. It was so awful you had to l augh. So of course we scratched out initials into the roof cause we had to make light of the situation. So the next venture was going to the motel. Keep in mind we did try doing this the cheapest way possible. So we checked into the hotel. It was rather a bordello than anything else. Truckers by the ton bringing women in. For $36/night, what'da expect? And to top that off there we ex cons and people living in the hotel. Not good. As we were in the hotel the airline calls me and tells me that some lady has taken my luggage with her to Georgia. I was livid. I wasn't going to get my luggage til Thursday and we were leaving Saturday. I was without my clothes for almost the entire trip. One day were on our way home from the beach. Were driving and my friend in the passenger seat is reading the newspaper. All of a sudden, she kicks her feet against the windshield, throws the paper up in the air and jumps in the back seat. "There was a roach on me, crawling on my leg!!" says my friends. All I can do is laugh...figures! So we pull over and there on the floor was about and inch and a half long roach crawling. Now this was no ordinary roach. It has wings. Were trying to shoo it out of the car and its wings keep flapping. So we finally get it out and CRUNCH! OH my goodness it was the most retched thing I have ever witnessed. It rained for at least an hour everyday with power loss. Bad food, nasty people, deals on the corner, not good at all. Now it was my boyfriend, myself and my friend on this trip. My boyfriend couldn't stay the entire week. He didn't fell safe with us in this hotel so he splurged for a nice hotel and the rest of the trip went well. Needless to say, It was awful. That's just my luck. - |
| This was created for my language arts class but I'm sendin it in anyways... So, it was almost the summer of 2005 when my Momannounced my family would be going on vacation. Good times? Not. What we thought would be fun, Turned out to be funny to others, but a nightmare to us. "Alex, Come here. I need to show you something." My Momsaid. As I walked into my den, I saw my mother sitting at our computer. I looked at the computer screen. "What’s that?" I asked her. "It’s where we’re going on vacation. It’s called Summer Bay Resort." "Really?" I said, as a question with some excitement in it. Excitement, Ha. "Yeah, But look at what it says in the package." She told me. I looked and read aloud. "4 day/3 night stay, Access to pool and Jacuzzi, and…Four tickets to Disney?" Now, I’ve never been to Disney and I’ve always wanted to go. So I thought, This would be fun, A great experience. Was I wrong. So, It was the day of the vacation and my Mompresented me with yet another surprise. My cousin Lizzie (Elizabeth)and my Uncle Ted came over! My cousin Lizzie is my closest family member and friend. I can tell her anything. She’s twelve (like me) and born four months after. So, We packed up our stuff, put in in the cars, and left for Summer Bay! In the car (I was in Lizzie’s with my Uncle) Lizzie and I did many things, for Summer Bay is in Kissimmee by Disney. When my parents finally pulled up to our condo at a spa place (Part of Summer Bay) We went in and explored. Upstairs and Downstairs, Kitchen, Three Bedrooms, Television, Dvd Player, Chairs and Couches, Pretty nice place. I thought. While we ( Me, Lizzie, My little brother Tony, and my big brother Sean) were scrambling taking dibs on rooms and beds, My mom, dad, and uncle were checking out the master bedroom. They were checking out the bathroom when Lizzie, Tony, and I walk in. All of a sudden, Tony goes "What’s that?" He points to the wall. On it was something that should’ve been in the toilet. "We’re leaving." My dad said. After that, You’d think it couldn’t get any worse. Guess again. So, They put us in another Summer Bay place called Summer Bay Resort. Now this place, it was one of the coolest places I have to say I’ve ever been to. They had a lake behind the community center with a water trampoline and everything. But before we jumped into their humongous pool, we went to Beef O’ Brady’s. At Beef O’ Brady’s, We all had some wings and other delicious foods. When we (Lizzie and I) were done, we went over to the game room. As I got in, I tripped and fell to the floor. When I was on the ground, I saw two bouncy balls on the floor under a machine. I put my hand under the machine and got the balls out. We played with them and took them back to our seats. Soon after, Lizzie and I had to use the bathroom. As we were walking, bouncing the balls I’d found, Lizzie’s got out of control, bounced under a table, and hit a man in the belly button. We ran towards the bathroom, laughing. When we got back to Summer Bay, We immediately went to the pool area where we learned about karaokeat Summer Bay called Summer Bay Idol. I don’t know why, but I signed up to do it. When I got on stage, about thirty-forty people watching, I started the song. Soon after, It started skipping. I got really embarrassed, ran down the steps and jumped into the pool, hoping I could forget what had happened. In the morning, Lizzie had to leave. We said our goodbyes and her and her dad left to go back to Apopka. My Momand dad also left to go to a welcome service to learn more about Summer Bay. When they came back, (finally) they announced they had bought a condo and we would be coming back in 2006. "Yes!" I exclaimed, still not down about everything that has happened. The next day we went to Disney! We all got out our clothes and waited in line to take a shower. When everyone got done, We had to eat lunch before we left. Guess what? Tony didn’t want to eat, he screamed and my parents told him he wouldn’t eat till four or five. Finally, he ate, and we were off! When we got to Disney, we took a boat to the Magic Kingdom. When the boat finally stopped, We went to a place called VMK Central. VMK means Virtual Magic Kingdom and you can play it online at Vmk.com. I knew about VMK before I went to Disney, it was one of the many reasons why I wanted to go. Anyways, we went in, got some quests (to get virtual items) and then went on some rides, and when I say some, I mean seven. My brother screamed on everything except the tea cups. So, at five o’ clock, we got on the Epcot monorail and went back to Summer Bay. We got back and tried to enjoy our last night at Summer Bay. After we went swimming, we went back to our rooms and went to sleep. We woke up, and took Sean back to my real dad’s house. We then went to St. Pete where we planned to stay for two days. We didn’t. We had to go home because we needed to put our car in the shop because something was wrong with it. We ate and left St. Pete for our three hour drive home. We finally got home and rested from being in the car so long. My Momcalled up Summer Bay to tell them that they would have to take back the condo since we didn’t want to go that far from home again. Our car got fixed, and everybody got ready for school to start again. All in all, I think the best part of our vacation was coming home. - |
| Well I went on a holiday once...not that you could call it a holiday and we went knee boarding and I was learning to jump ova the wake and the boat was rly close to these rocks and anyway I managed to jump out of the wake and bak in and I went to jump bak out as we were turning the corner and I didnt see the rocks and I jumped out of it and I landed on a rock on my ankle and I broke my ankle and I had to go to the local hospital and wait 5 hours and then I had to get plaster and crutches with 2 and a half weeks still left of my holiday and I just had to sit on the beach and I couldnt go swimming:( - anonymous! - |
| I'm 19 years old and I went on vacation with my best friend, Diana, to Sedona, Arizona. When the plain landed, we were rushed by paramedics to an ambulance. We didn't know what was going on. When we went into the truck, we saw my aunt, Suzan, laying down. We were supposed to visit her and she was supposed to pick us up but I guess the ambulance had too since she was in the middle of a heartattack. We left our luggage in the airport, 35,000 dollars worth of jewlery were in our bags! We were screaming to stop but the ambulance kept driving. The local hospitals were all full so we had to drive through the desert just to get to one. In the middle of our journey, my aunt passed away and the ambulance truck suddenly broke down, not even their radio transmitters were working so we were stuck in the middle of the desert for 3 days straight. Thankfully they had some food and water but that was the worst vacation ever and when we went to go on our flight back home, we missed it and had to stay in the airport for another day. - Gina - |
| Ok so our Vacation to because started out normal so yah. We were an hour out of the city when we realize we have forgoten the life jackets. After lunch @ mount robson we head out onto the highway again.Half an hour out of Valemont the car breaks down. Dad hitchhikes to Valemont and got a tow truck. Uncle (From Kamloops) Comes and picks us up.we go to his house (where we were heading anyway... 7 hour drive for him) get to aunt and uncles... and there is a mouse in the house.DAMN IT! Wake up at 3:29 AM and find mouse in bed with me. You can probly see how this Vacation SUCKED!lol! - |
| One time my cousins and I were going skiing and the 1st night of our drive, one of my younger of my cousins had to go to the bath room!But we were on the high way and I bet you know how pee stinks!I was with it for 2 hours!!Now I'm wondering was this torcher or ski trip?Next day we got there!Hot springs just for gust and king beds!!When we got in just two king beds, and we had said four!When we complained they said to get a life.So we had to stay cause this was all we could stay in, and we took turns sleeping on the floor.We went to the hot springs the next day, and all of the hot spring pools smelled like eggs that had been mixed with rat fur and trash!So we went skiing for hours and my older cousin got to go to the car early because she 'stubbed her toe' please!She hadn't even really skied!We went home and she said I couldn't play he Sims (she had boght her lap top), because I wasn't a teen!Oh please!I've played rated T games!!-Ashly - |
| Yipppppeeee finally a vacation from work. I decided to take 5 days off and go out to Vegas to visit my parents and sisters and a few friends I had been missing (mostly just the love of my life Gil). Anyways here I am the day before I am set to leavein my Mustang that I had just bought a few weeks before and excited because I'm taking one of my best friends with me until I find out he cant go. Damn oh well so then the day of my departure I head over to my friends house to say goodbye and Have my him check out my car and make sure everything is ok for my drive. he informs me my coolant is really low. So I went to the local 76 station and they top it off for me and check my tires only to discover I may have a leak in one of the front tires and my back tire has a nail in it. so that's gonna cost me and then they inform me they couldn't fix the tire with the nail because the tred is low and its a safety issue. Fine well I cant afford to replace so I will just drive on it. So I finally set off and find my way to Vegas. I did about 100 mph once I got passed all the traffic on the 91. I finally arrive around midnight and hang out with the love of my life (who was actually my ex at that moment until we got back together the next day. During my stay there I actually had some fun and had decided next time I was bringing my friend Heather for Gil's friend Eric to meat. I get ready to leave after one finally trip to the strip and on my way to drop off Gil and Eric my clutch starts squeaking really loud. that's no good. my clutch is going out. Good thing Gil and Eric are mechanics. so I had to order a new clutch and then because of timing issues it took almost 4 days to fix my car and I missed 4 days of work. So then I finally make is home late Thursday nigh and discover I have the weekend off from work so Friday when I got off I grabbed my friend heather and we took off for Vegas. I had an amazing weekend and me and the love of my life Gil (being the spontaneous couple we are) got married on the strip. so the weekend is done and its late Sunday and me and heather head back for home and right before I hit the freeway out of town I decided we needed to stay one more day. So we stay another day and When we left my husband decided to come back with me for a week and I took him back to Vegas with my friend heather on Saturday and headed home . we are about an hour outside ofVegas when I'm coasting down one of the passes in neutral and when I drop to about 70 I decide to put it back in gear and I really wasn't thinking because I was already missing my husband and instead of putting the car back in 5th gear I tried to put it in 1st and my clutch popped and I coasted to the side of the road and called my husband he said I should try to turn around and come back so he can look at my car. so we coast the rest of the way down the hill to the nearest off ramp which is Cima road. and try to go over the overpass and didn't make it. we rolled backwards and ended up stuck in the middle of this weird road and my car wasn't going anywhere so my husband and his dad come out to rescue us and when my husband jacked up my car he discovered my clutch shattered in pieces. oh joy so I have to leave my car in the middle of nowhere and it takes 2 days to before his dad fixes his truck so they can tow my car back to town but when they reached the top of the hill where my car had broken, his dad's truck breaks down so his Momhad to rent a u-haul and go get his dads truck and my car. so here I am stuck in Vegas missing all this work which got me fired ( but its cool because I had already turned in my 2 weeks and was about to move out to vegas anyways) but I had to barrow $100 from Eric to send my friend Heather on a plane home. It was just a big catastrophe from the start with my car. - |
| I was going to see the broadway Phantom of the Opera in atlanta and I live in alabama. It took 7 hours to get there. SO when we finally get there we spend 1 hour looking for the hotel. They gave us the wrong directions.(we got the hotel directions over the internet) So when we FINALLY find the hotel...our reservations were lost.So we had to make new ones and get a REALLY crappy room. And the card wouldn't work. It wouldn't open the door. SO when we finally get in the electricity doesn't work and we have NO hot water. So then we get the electricity to work and they tell us not to use the blow dryer. So we have to go to broadway with wet hair and no makeup.And to make matters worse, we forgot that there was a time change, and we missed the first hour of the whole show. We caught the end. - |
| My bad vacation was a trip to Orlando, Florida. Three friends from school and I bought tickets to go see the Iowa Hawkeyes play in the Capital One Bowl on January 1, 2005. We decided to drive my car to get there. We already knew it was going to be interesting trip, because we were driving from Iowa and it is about a 26 hour drive to Orlando, and we were only going to be there for two and a half days. So on December 30th we load up the car for our journey south, and I decided to take the first driving shift and I drove for about 13 hours straight. We stopped at a Pizza Hut for dinner, and my friend (we'll call her Sarah) took the next driving shift. Well while merging back onto the interstate, Sarah decides that we need to make better time so she slams on the gas to speed up, well as soon as the transmission downshifts, to what should be the passing gear, all that happens is a loud bang and nothing but a loud rattle coming from underneath our feet. We had just crossed the Illinois border into Kentucky, so we pull over to the side of the road. We could not drive any faster than 15 miles per hour, apparently the transmission had gone into "limp mode". So we are near an exit with a Super 8 motel, and we pull into the motel parking lot and assess our situation. The conversation went something like this: "This sucks we need beer." So we decide to stay overnight at the motel and have the car towed to the nearest transmission shop. We also make reservations for a rental car the next morning at Hertz. There is a gas station right next door to the motel, but apparently in Kentucky they don't sell beer at gas stations, and we are informed that in order to quench our thirst, we have to go to a liqour store two miles down the road into the town of Paduka. So it was a unanimous decision, we would hike it on foot. So at about 9:30 P.M. and we are hiking alongside a pitch black, unlit, two lane highway, while cars are flying by at 60 mph. About halfway there, from behind us I hear a sound, sort of like rocks being shot from tires of a passing car, as I turn around to look, I get nailed in the forehead with something hard. Instinctively I reach up to feel my forehead, and it was all wet, my first reaction was that I had been shot. Upon closer inspection by light of a cell phone, the color of the substance on my forehead, which I thought was blood, turned out to be yellow paint. I had been involved in a drive by shooting...by a paintball gun!! So yellow hair and all, we finally arrive at the liqour store. We stocked up on enough booze to kill a small army, and take a taxi cab back to our hotel room. The next morning, after shaking off the migraines brought on from the night before, we take another taxi to a Hertz car rental, with the intentions of renting a car at the qouted price from the night before. Which was $140 for a three day rental. When we arrive at Hertz, they inform us that there is a 200 mile radius around the shop, and if we plan on taking the car outside of that radius they will charge us $80 for the first 100 miles, and after that we would be charged $.30 per mile. A completly different price than what we had previously been given. We said it did not matter, we had to get to Orlando no matter what. When we get in the car, we do some quick math and realize that it is going to cost us over $700 round trip, and all of us being broke college students who were barely able to fund this trip in the first place, decide that we were going to have to get the previously qouted price. So my other friend (we'll call him Chris) informs us that his mom is phenomenal at bitching, so he calls her and explains the situation, and she says she will call Hertz and get things figured out. She calls back in an hour and said she convinced the manager at Hertz to charge us the previously qouted rate. So 11 hours and an average speed of well over 80 mph later, we finally arrive in Orlando. We arrive at about 11 PM, this time of arrival crushes our dreams of having a wild and crazy New Years eve in Orlando. When we get to the motel, which I had booked online, we find out is located in the worst part of Orlando. In our room all the dresser drawers had been stolen, only one of the lights worked in our room, and you could hear people fighting all night long outside. Regardless, we were so weary from the road and the previous events, we all decide tommorow before and during the game is our time of debauchery. Next day we go to the game, and if anyone was watching the game that day, it was one of the best college football bowl games ever. Warren Halloway caught a touchdown pass at the last second, and Iowa beat LSU 30-25. Again our celebration was cut short because the next day we had to make the long trip back to the cold climate of Iowa. Due to the fact that the transmission of my car had to be rebuilt over the New Year's holiday, it ended up costing $2200. On our travel back, we stopped at what seemed like a great BBQ place for dinner. A few hours later I could be seen, on the side of the highway, leaning out of the car, vomiting up all of my barbeque chicken, which apparently had not been completly cooked. After all this was said and done we made it back to Paduka in one piece, and got lost for two hours looking for the transmission shop. But we finally found my car and got back on the road. On the trip back and we ran into a bad ice storm in Illinois and had drive to at about 35 mph for a few hours. But we finally made it home. I was $2400 poorer, had a nice lump on my head, and was still queasy from my donation to the roadside cleanup crews, so to finalize my trip I went to bed. - |
| Well it was one normal day when my parents told me that we were going on a holiday to Australia I thought that it was going to be really cool. But it totally wasn’t I met this really nice boy on holiday and he asked me out only I didn’t realize that it was a dare till the end so I said yes because he seemed nice enough when the he seemed really surprised so I asked what was the matter ad he burst out laughing telling me that it was a dare I went bright red in then face and ran back to the beach where my parents were they asked why I was so red but I just told them I was really hot. but it was even worse the next day for the boy who asked me out as a dare was staying in my hotel and every night came down to see the entertainment where I was. I thought that I was going to forget about him but I just couldn’t he was so nice but he didn’t feel the same way as I did we never saw each other again but still in Australia I had a great time and put him to the back of my mind and had a good holiday. It was so funny the last day of my holiday because I found that his mum was really strict and she slapped him really hard in front of everyone so I made myself look extra pretty that day and I new he wished that is wasn’t a dare because he asked me out again at the entertainment and I said I will think about it in the end I said no because he was mean to me so in the end it wasn’t such a bad holiday but in a way it was!!!!!! - |
| When I was in the 5th grade we were on our way to Alabama and we were in two cars. Our grandmother was driving one and our great uncle was driving the other. We didn't want to stop at a Motel so we had to sleep in the car. I was trying to sleep in the seat but I couldn't fall asleep so I slept on the floor. the next morning we stopped at a McDonalds in Tennessee and were there for about 30 minutes. When we went to get gas me my sister and two cousins got Icees. that was not a good idea. 15 minutes after i got mine we had to make a pit stop. My uncle used a walkie talkie we got and went to the next gas station. The other car didn't get our message. It took us 2 hours to find them and we were way off track.We got to Alabama and stayed with our other aunt and uncle and their cat. We stayed with them for about 5 days. We went to a space center and the Huntville Botanical Garden. 6 hours later we went to Florida. On the way there we ran out of gas. When we finally got to Florida, we stayed at our older cousins house and only for 3 days. We left again and on the way back we had to stay with our cousin who kept yelling that she was tired. Thankfully the next morning we were home. The entire trip to and from took 12 days. That was the longest 12 days of my life! - |
| One time we stayed at a theme park until right before closing. We decided we'd go on one last ride: the river rapids. Meanwhile, my dad was winning stuff at the arcade. We went on the rapids once, and the line wasn't long so they let us stay on the "boat" and ride again. We noticed that this ride was kind of boring. The waves weren't so great and we hardly got wet at all. Well, pretty soon, we stopped completely. We weren't moving at all. We waited for a REALLY long time until someone who worked at the park came to us and said to stay in the boat---what else would we do?---until someone came to help us. They did and opened the latch to the boat. We jumped out and started wading through the water. It was weird walking through the ride backwards and the water was really cold. We realized that they had started draining the ride before our ride was finished! So, after walking through pretty much the whole ride (we got stuck at the very end and had to walk the way we came from) we went through the control tower and out the exit. Our feet were soggy and exhausted but my dad had won us a stuffed lion! - |
| We went to England to see our family I took my boyfriend with me when we were at the hotel my boy was chatting up some girls but then I had to go to the dairy when I was there I had to go pick out something for my family I was there for an hour when I got back I went back to the hotel room I went in a there was my boy sexing a girl on the couch! -katie - |
| On spring break my dad and i decided we were going to go fish on white rock creek tx well so we launch our boat the fishing is going very well we get as far as upstream as we could so 3 hours into the trip i was fishing with a spiner bait i reared back and somehow got the hook stuck in my dads hand we we tried getting it out we could not get the hook out period so we just decided we haf to go to the hospital in trinity but one problem the boat decided to quit working and all we had was a trolling motor and a 2 ft long mini paddle we trolled and paddled until the battries both ran dead then all we had was this little paddle remember this is a very secluded part of lake livingston water system so there no one out here we paddled for 4 hours finally made it to a marina that was 3/4 way to the truck tied the boat up walked another 30 min to the truck and finally got to the hospital about 9 pm after that we went and ate 20$ worth of food at dairy queen packed are bags and got the hell out of dodge - |