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| Okay so my family and I went to the beach for our vacation, so it was our last night there and so we decided to park the car on a street and spend some time on the boardwalk, because we had rented a house and we had to be out of there at a certain time. So we spent like 1 and a half on the boardwalk so my dad tries to go and find the car, BUT he misread the street name, so my mom my brother my other sister and my other sister and myself were waiting on the boardwalk for my dad to pick us up. So we wait for about 3 hourse, so my mom starts crying and so do I thinking my dad was passed out or something [high blood pressure] but my excuse for crying was " I was cold and wanted to go home", [lol] because no one else besides my mom and I were crying. So then my moms going crazy saying Laurie [my sister] has no feelings because she not worried. So we go to the police station on the boardwalk, and the police guy says there was no reported accidents. So we wait another 30 minutes and my dad FINALLY comes back, says he couldn't find the street name and had to use someone's phone! My moms face was all blotchy and we got back at like 3:30 in the MORNING! - Anonymous |
| My husband and I went up to Rockford Ill with friends of ours so we stopped in El Paso, Il for gas and a bite to eat. The friends truck brakes went out. So we called for a U Haul since we were going up there to get the camaro and we only had 1 vehicle that we were driving. The Uhaul person gave us wrong directions, but we finally found it in spite of him. We get up there and decide to go to wendys for a salad and some food. We brought the food back and they forgot forks so couldnt eat the food. We all decided we would go to a club after having trouble getting into the first club even though I had a valid id and I was an adult. They said because it was a Mo (non driver id) well sorry at that time that is how they issued ids for Mo. So we went to another club where I was allowed in. We leave the club and 5 inches of snow accumulated. The next day we went to get the vehicle out of where it had been sitting since the engine blew up. We get to the place and had to get a flat bed truck to put it on the Uhaul and get someone to mow the place so we could get the camaro. We start on our drive back. We stop by the El Paso Il to check on the truck and what happens is the U Haul brakes go out. We call U Haul and wait in Shell-heck for several hrs. We should have known something was up when over by the phone someone had wrote previously This Place Sucks. So if your in El Paso Il, don't stop at Shell station with subway in it. It is Shell hell. - Anonymous |
| Ok ill tell you how it happend all in order first i live in Australia. now we were driveing to perth and when we and my dad is a truckie so he was taking a car there at the same time and the truck broke down about an hour out of town (in the middle of no where) so we called for help and waited after an hour and a half of waiting we called agian and siad where is someone and they siad sorry but we are very busy someone will come soon ok so we wiat another hour we ring agian just in a few minutes now im getting stressed after another two hours we call agian and they say "oh sorry when did you call" " ABOUT FOUR FUCKING HOURS AGO" said my dad "very soon". now it is another 5 hours later and we call up and say "well is some one coming?" and ofcors "very soon now" " YOU HAVE BEEN SAYING THAT FOUR THE LAST EIGHT HOURS" "im very sorry but it will be very soon". Ok now its half an hour later and they finely come and this is what they say "im sorry but since its after hours i need to charge you extra and even more because you are so far away" *fuck* im thinking now remember thats the first thing so you can think how bad it was now the second thing we get to perth at one oclock in the morning on a sunday and nothing is open and this is after hitting a sheep a kangeroo a fox and a elephant i mean a egeale so then we get to the supposed to be five star motel and guess what....... its more like a -five star hotel yes it has a pool if you count a pool being a big gross mass of swomp like liquid and a spa being a little puddle so i mean this is not good you get it now? then the beds are i little bit of foam on the floor a black and white t.v and there was a hole heap of other things happening but its late while im writing this and im tired and that includes on the way home the car brakes down and so on you get message - Emma |
| My
worst vacation experience happened one spring break when we went skiing
with our church youth group. Since we're from Texas (which lacks both mountains
and snow) this ski trip has become an annual tradition. It started with an incredibly long and boring 14 hour drive to Ruidoso, New Mexico, which was only bearable because I knew that the next day I would be enjoying myself out on the slopes (or so I thought). Well we arrive up there, and we spent the first night and get ready to ski the next morning. After waiting needlessly at the ski rental place, we go to the hardware store to buy snow chains because it's snowing like crap outside. We then wait another hour while the people in our other car put their chains on and then we finally start the 45 minute long drive up the mountain. However, we hadn't gone to very far up when we see some idiot driver who ran off the road because of the snow. We could have easily gone around the wreck, but the sheriff had to come and park right smack dab in the middle of the road so we couldn't get by. But we make it up to the ski area eventually and I go off and do my own thing. By now, its snowing really hard and it's 15 degrees and super foggy. But I just have the brilliant idea of going to the top, which requires about a 30 minute ride on 3 different ski lifts. Well, it's foggy as hell up there, so I don't see any great panoramic views and plus I nearly freeze my ass off. When the day is done, I'm sunburned and I have a nasty headache. I wake up the next morning feeling horrible with a fever and a sick stomach. I forfeited skiing for the day so I could stay at the lodge and "rest." All I really did was puke and feel like crap all day long. Although I'm basically better by dinnertime, I'm still not completely recovered so I didn't go skiing the next day either. I'm felt pretty good but when the people who went skiing come back this one kid tells me how he threw up in the van on the way down the mountain. Pretty soon after that, 3 more people are sick and I have to spend the night on the floor upstairs in the "non-quarantine room." When we leave for home the next morning even more people got sick and our progress is extremely slow because we have to stop about every half hour so someone can get out of the van and puke. (Keep in mind that this is a 14 hour trip.) Well we're about 8 hours from home and this one girl who had gotten sick earlier in the day was throwing up so much that she was all numb and was getting dehydrated. Well her mom freaked out (with good reason, I might add) and we went back to the nearest town and checked the girl into the hospital there. She ended getting like two IVs or something so we had to spend the night in a hotel in this west Texas town out in the middle of nowhere. We finally made back home the next day and then I realized how my entire spring break had been wasted either being sick or watching all my friends get sick. Out of the 20 of us that went, only 4 didn't end up catching the virus at all. And the worst thing is, they blamed me for getting them sick since i was the first one! Because of this bad experience, my friends and I have vowed never to return to the mountains for spring break; we're going to the beach. - Josh from Texas |
| Well,
in Australia it can get pretty darn hot. imagine 45 degrees c in the middle
of nowhere. i was about 17 when my family - older sister, mum and dad -
went on a little holiday to WA. for those of you who don't know, WA is pretty much ALL desert. so we are looking forward to a nice camping holiday and get to the airport nice and early, 5'o clock in the morning early and first we find out that a) they have screwed up our seats so we aren't all together, not so bad. b) the flight is delayed 3 hours. c) our baggage was put on the wrong flight and is now on the way to the virgin islands. finally, even though our luggage is god knows where, we board our flight. i reach my seat and low and behold there is an impossibly large man sitting next to me. not only that but he had BO really bad. having survived the flight, just, we arrive and it's about 45 degrees centregrade and positivly boiling. as we were not planning to stay in a hotel our luggage issue presented kind of a problem. finally we got some good luck. we got to stay in a hotel for a night for free. it was a nice hotel too. so the next day we got our luggage and set off for god knows where. my dad, a very proud man, insisted that, yes, he knew EXACTLY where we're going. naturally within five hours we were about ten hours in the wrong direction. we scratched out original plan and decided to camp in this camping place. it was in a wildlife area but i could live with that. i am not much of a camper so setting up tent proved to be harder than expected. that night was horrific. wombats and mosquitoes. everywhere. that plus the ongoing sound of cicadas and crickets proved to be a very annoying lullaby. the next morning all i wanted was a shower. sorry no can do. but it did rain though. ALOT. everything got completey soaked. after another five days of pouring rain we had to go home anyway. we drove the long way back to the airport only to find out our flight was in fact, you guessed it, cancelled. this time we had to PAY for a hotel room. the food there was pretty sketchy so i didn't eat much. again, we had a nice and early flight. 4'o clock nice. cheaper rates you see. and everything went fine, checked in, got to gate with plenty of time to spare. that was until my sister started to feel sick. then mum. we all got on the plane anyway. and about half an hour into the flight, low and behold my sister, who was sitting RIGHT NEXT TO ME, started vomiting. then mum did too. i was in the middle and there were NO spare seats. it was the most horrible 4/5 hours of my life. and now i am older, but little wiser. the only thing i learnt was how much i HATE camping and flying. word of warning: if it looks sketchy - DON'T EAT IT. it is important you remember this. not only for your well being but for everyone elses aswell. - Kate |
| Seems like every family vacation, we'd always drive from Layton, Utah down to Hemet, California to visit my grandparents. We had some good friends who lived near Los Angeles. Our friends were always fun to visit. Unfortunately, our grandparents were not. My dad would usually get 2 weeks off for vacations. He wanted to spend the majority of the time at our grandparents' house. My grandma was the worst cook ever! She'll fix lunch for 8 people, which consisted of watered-down kool-aid with no sugar, one small can of soup, to about 20 cans of water. And whatever was leftover from dinner the night before would be mixed in with the soup. I remember one time she made soup with leftover beans and spaghetti! YUCK!!! My mom, my two brothers, and my sister would sometimes say, "I think we'll take a walk". My dad wouldn't join us. He saw nothing at all wrong with my grandma's cooking! Go figure! Anyway, we'd sneak out for these "walks" and end up going to McDonald's or something. "Yay! Finally some REAL FOOD instead of grandma's soup!" My grandparents yard was simply dirt, they were too cheap to put in a lawn, and so they wouldn't let my siblings and myself go outside and play because they didn't want us to get dirty. We would have to spend nearly 2 weeks just sitting around in rocking chairs, listening to boring classical music and reading reader's digest. They hardly ever had the tv on. They had very few toys for us to play with. There was absolutely NOTHING to do. My dad would be all happy and content, while my mom and my siblings would be going nuts, watching the clock wondering when or IF we were EVER going to get out of there. We couldn't wait to finally go to our friends' house in Los Angeles. Every year it was like this! - Anonymous |
| Last year in August 2004, my mom and I were in Arkansas and we were looking in a hotel magazine for a place to stay in Hot Springs. We saw this really great place and so we called there and made reservations. When we got there, it was a run down cottage place and iranians owned it!!! The cottage was filled with cockroaches, nasty beds, and I was afraid to go in the bathroom or take a shower. I didn't not take a shower. These people needed to be reported to Health Services or something!!!! We couldn't get a refund or go anywhere else because it was official! So we actually had to stay there but just one night, fortunately - Anonymous |
| This
isnt a family vacation, this is a church group vacation going to acquire
the fire. i was on my way to Sacramento, from a city called livermore. all
was well, and we were all having fun. it was a 5 car caravan, and my car
was a 1994 chevy suburban w/ 8 girls in it. so anyway, this other car and
us were cutting each other off, and we kinda screwed up...he he...so ya....car
rolled over....like 5 times...everyone was ok, i had surgery (ackh!) and now im in physical therapy. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7359561/ thats where you can see a pic of the car afterwards. the other 4 cars just went, and 2 out of the car accident went.but i didnt get to go....which made me mad, i wanted to see skillet :o) so everybody, pleeeeeaaaaassseee dont cut people off....its rreeeaaalllly dangerous...please btw, im only 12 - abbzz |
| My family and I went camping in Michigan by Lake Michigan. Our camp site was right next to where you dump your sewage. The sewage dump didn't even have a fence around it. One night we are eating dinner outside and a guy walks up to our camp site with his sewage tank and starts dumping it out. It smelled so bad too. He started a conversation with my dad and everything. That was the worst part of my vacation. - Casie, West Virginia |
| It was our first time to hawaii. We had arrived at honolulu and started a beautiful vacation together as a family. Then one morning i had woken up sick, and i mean really sick! Later in the day my parents brought me to i local doctor to have them then tell us that i was dehydrated and needed IV fluids. They gave me medication that was apparently way to strong for my body to handle. So then i was rushed to the Kalapani Childrens hospital. When we arrived there was about 8 doctors and nurses waiting for me in the trama unit. In conclusion the doctor said that i would've died if i didnt go to the hospital, he saved my life and to this day my family thanks them with a yearly donation. - Anonymous |
| I was on spring break with my friends and we were in California since we have always wanted to go there, (and we wanted to go to the price is right). So anyway, we get to the California airport on Wednesday, and we get our things and head for our hotel room. After that we decided to go explore the town first. Well as were walking down the street, it starts really raining HARD! So we ran to the nearest diner and went in side. They had a TV in there and the news was on, and they were talking about a flood warning. We didn't worry though. But we ended up having to stay at the diner for 3 hours because of the rain. After it slowed, we took a cab back to the hotel. Well, we were on the top floor of the hotel, and the hotel wasn't very grand lets just say that. Well we had to take the stairs up and when we got onto our floor we stepped into about 2 cm of water! We just kinda starred at each other. We went into our room only to discover there was a leak in the celing! ALL of our stuff was wet and so was the beds and the furniture! We freaked out and ran down to the lobby! We complained to the manager, and he said he had told one of us at check in that the celing had a slight leak. (He told my friend Rita who took the room because it was the only one left.) Rita "forgot" to tell us about this little setback. So we all started arguing and blamed it on Rita. We eventually went back up to the room to gather our soaking wet belongings. And wouldn't you know it...all of the hotels within 10 miles of where we were were booked! So here we are, 5 girls in an unfamiliar state, with only enough money for the things we planned on buying and nowhere to go! Well we needed a place to stay because it was supposed to rain again. So, the bright mind I have came up with a brilliant idea! My other friend Gina who is slightly overweight could pass for a pregnant person. So we went to this big luxurious hotel and I ran inside freaking out (being the wonderful actress I am) acting like my friend was really sick because she was pregnant and we needed a room. I argued with the manager for a bit but he eventually let us use a reserved room since I told him wed only be there for one night...And he let us stay free of charge!(that was the only good thing on the trip). Well, our trip to go to the price is right had to be put off because my friend Sienna got the stomach flu! So we were stuck! We decided to leave 2 days early because of our bad luck. Well, the day we were leaving another rain came. And we got stuck in traffic for 3 hours! And we missed our flight! So when we FINALLY got to the airport, we had to reschedule, and ended up waiting another 4 hours for our flight, and the whole time Sienna was barfing! How great is that?! Well, on the flight home,we hit major turbulance! And that made Sienna barf even more, and made Rita sick too. The whole way home sucked! And when we got back to our airport in our state, we discovered my car had been stolen! I wanted to cry! ( I did cry!) We had to rent a car, and drive the 3 1/2 hours back to our houses. So yea, our spring break SUCKED! And that was probably the WORST vacation EVER! And I had to replace a lot of my things because most of it was damaged in the "freak" water misdemeanor. - Brittany from Indiana Hello, my vacation in Wildwood was the worst ever! Well, when we got to our house and got settle in I got a shower and when I went to get dressed I knew I forgot my suitcase! All my stuff was in it! So IM like okay........so the whole trip I wore my sister's clothes but she only had 2 outfits for me to ware and they had to last 2 weeks. So that what I did then we went out to breakfast and my Mom like don't let that ruin your vacation! I said your right. But when I didn't let that ruin my vacation something else did. At breakfast our waiter came out with my dads coffee but trip burring hott and spilled it right on my last outfit. Oh yeah and no washer down there! - Anonymous |
| When I was high school aged, my grandparents gave us their old, 1959 International Truck that had a Camper welded onto the chassis. This thing was about the ugliest-looking camper you ever saw! The cab was baby-blue, the camper was White, with an aluminum colored roof, ugly yellow awnings over the windows on both sides, and large, rusty, metal doors where the propane tank and storage areas were. This thing was the size of a small dump truck! It was only designed to sleep 3 people, but my dad made this stupid make-shift bed that he would lay across the the back of the camper, over the sink. Whoever the unfortunate one was who slept in that particular bed would sometimes get water dripping on their head because the faucet would leak! One thing that was kind of funny about this old clunker camper was that it had this button on the wall above the bed, over the cab. It looked like a doorbell. Here we were, driving along, my parents in the front, my siblings and myself in the back. "What's this button for?" So we pushed it. "HONK!!!!!!" It was so funny! Everyone in the cars next to us would be giving my dad these dirty looks, like "What are you honking at me for!" My dad couldn't figure out what was happening, why the horn kept honking! My dad sometimes would forget that he was driving something the size of a dump truck and not his little Chevy Vega. There was a time when he drove that thing under the awning at some hospital and took out the little pop-up vents on the top of that camper. He couldn't find any replacement parts, and so he raided the kitchen, got two old square brownie pans out, drilled holes in them and put them on top of the vents. Problem solved! (More like a rust problem waiting to happen) Can we say "CHEAP!" ?? Another time he tried to parallel park that thing, which is something you DON'T do with an rv that size! "CRUNCH!!!!" He backed into this lady's car, while she was still sitting in it! Fortunately it didn't do any damage, but the lady was VERY upset! That camper was sooo embarrassing to be seen in! I ended up having to drive that thing to and from high school because my dad would take the car to work. All my high school buddies had the typical teenager car of the 80's, like Chevy Novas, Ford Pintos, Fairmonts, Mavericks, and there I was driving that huge beast! It stood out in that school parking lot like a sore thumb! I was the laughing stock of the whole school. How embarrassing! - Anonymous |
| me and my friend aim decided to take a spur of the moment road trip. we didn’t really have any money the friend who we were going to stay with wired us 75$ we were driving my rent-a-car I had received due to a car accident [my car was totaled] we set off at 5 in the evening heading to tampa florida from lexington kentucky. as soon as we were about to hit the interstate I got a speeding ticket for going 13 over the limit. it didn’t phase me but I should have taken it as a warning. we set off anyway. we were making good time when we hit tennesee the traffic was awful due to road construction. I drove the shoulder and made it threw the traffic which was estimated at 4 hours, in one hour. as soon as we got out of the jam I was pulled over again for speeding. this time 18 over the limit. I took it in stride and pressed on. everyone had told me alanta georgia was the worst to drive threw. but I did great. taking all the turn off's myself with out any help. we were still making great time. [most likely due to my led foot] we hit the tampa turnpike around 7 in the morning. as soon as I saw the turnpike sign. I was stopped by the police again. my 3rd speeding ticket in 24 hours. not to mention in 3 different states. he was nice about it. sort of laughed it off after I had told him my story. no sleep spur of the moment trip. he told me he had already called the ticket in so he HAD to give it to me, that if I had told him all of this before. then he wouldn’t have issued it. he clocked me going 105 in a 70 zone but marked it down that I had only been 12 miles over the limit. so we made it to my friends in tampa who agreed to let us stay. as soon as we got out of the car all hell broke loose and me and this guy ended up getting into a fight. it ruined the entire day. I was going on no sleep for 24 hours and I had just gotten my period. so we hung out drank a little went to a strip club. I blew off the fight and decided not to let it get me down. my friend [who I was fighting with] would not let it end. he kept telling me I should apologize and that I was wrong. so I got upset and started to cry. I said I wanted to go home. we resolved the situation and went to sleep. the next day was just as worse. me and this guy and my friend I had brought fought all day. so I decided it was time to leave. my friend who we were staying with had originally said he would pay our way back. I told him to give me the money so we could leave. he told me to wait until the next day. but I was pissed off and wanted to leave right then and there. so we just took off. left him at home. me and my friend aim had no money no gas no cigarettes no where to go and we are like 900 miles from home. so I told her lets make a sign and sit by it and see if anyone would give us some change. enough at least to get cigarettes. if anything we could steal gas. so we made our sign sat down by it and waited. the first person to talk to us was this guy mark [aka mark the mark] we told him our story and what had happened. he was about to agree to help us. when the gas station manager came out and told us we had to leave. [keep in mind this was on easter sunday] the gas station manager had a cross around his neck. I said if you believe in jesus then you would let us sit here and find help. if I saw a man on the side of the road who really needed help I would help him. the gas manager said it was illegal and we had to leave now. so I went off on him. I called him every name in the book. I told him he was hiding behind christ and jesus knew that. that he was going to hell because he was a hypocrite. so mark the mark told us to go wait at a restaurant and he would meet us over there. to make this section short he bought us cigarettes dinner filled our gas tank up and gave us 100 bucks. and we didn’t do anything! he really just wanted someone to talk to. so I talked and aim [the bod] sat there looking pretty. we left him where we fount him and headed home. no speeding tickets going back. but as soon as I get home. my boyfriend kicks me out. he has my stuff sitting there waiting for me. my mom says its what I deserved. I pretty much came home to the biggest reality check ever. this was by far the worst vacation of my life. p.s I have since recovered and swore off any spontaneity. now I throw myself into work and will never leave home with out back up money and resources to talk myself out of tickets. - Anonymous |
| We were going to dominican republic and there werent any flights out of where we live so we drove to chicago about a 5 hour drive so we get to the o'hare airport and it says our flight is delayed till 3 ocklock 3 hours no biggy at 3 ocklock they say its delayed till 8 at 8 its delayed even more so the airport arranged for us to stay at the airport hilton so our flight goes to the hilton theyre like umm the airport never told us you're staying here so we have to stand for about an hour until they figure things out then in the hotel the fire alarm rings and the sprinklers come down luckily it was a false alarm and we didnt have to evacuate so they say the flight will depart at 5am everyone gets to the airport were waiting till about 8 am finally the plane is here!! we get on and just sit on the plane for about an hour and then the pilot anounces ladies and gentelman we have run tests on the plane and it is not safe enough to fly over the ocean i mean im already scared of planes but now im just freaking out so we had to go back to the hotel luckily the airport payed for our hotel and food and everything but then the next day many people canceled their trip since it was delayed for about 2 days so the plane comes and so many people canceled like everyone got their own row when the plane got to dominican republic everybody just wanted to kiss the ground so the airport refunded our money for the days we lost but we only got 5 days in dominican republic it was fun but ill never forget that plane experience - Anonymous |
| I was on a vacation in Puerto Rico with my neighbors. We were having a great time at the resort we were staying at. Well, while at the resort we read abrochure that was advertising a kayaking trip with an "Experienced" Kayak instructor. The kayaking would take place in a bioluminescent bay, which means that these little animals glow in the dark. So, we met the guy outside of a little openind inot a small gulf that lead straight to the ocean. When he got out of his car all this smoke poured out and he was holding abeer bottle. (Drinking and driving is legal in Puerto Rico) He told us he had the kayaks in the back, so we pulled them out and slid them into the water. It was still light out so he gave us a tour of the harbor before showing us the little glowy things. Well it was a lot of fun and when it got dark the water glowed and it was awesome. Well, all of the sudden we hear thunder and lightening, and it starts to sprinkle. Well the guy starts to lead us back to the other end of the harbor but we're like a mil on the other side. Well, now it really starts pouring and the wind get strong. (Tropical stroms happen in the blink of an eye here) The currents are going all different ways and the instructor takes off. Well my dad screams for the guy, but he 's long gone. So, we end up having to lead ourselves back to the land. But, My mom had just had knee surgery and could hradly paddle, becasue she didn't have any leverage. So, I had to paddle her and myself. Well naturally being the youngest one paddling I fell behind and my neighbor's kayak along with mine gets pulled into a cross current and we start getting pulled out to sea. So, it's pure adrenaling driving me on and I paddled us all the way back to shore. Man it was tough. I fell asleep RIGHT when we got back to the hotel, I was ssoooooo tired. - Anonymous |
| My
worst vacation was back in the mid 70's when we planned to leave Los Angeles
and go to Las Vegas, yelowstone, and other points of interest making a large
circle of our trip. Some days or weeks prior to vacation, I'd had a rock
knock a hole in the rear end of my Plymouth Duster. The local service station
had fixed it and it seemed to be working ok. Comes the start of our vacation
with two exciting weeks ahead of us... We got about two hours on our way
when the rear end of the car broke and we had to be towed in to some small
service station in the sticks. By the next day they were finally able to
find a used rear end in a wrecking yard and replace the failed unit. (Apparently
the lubricant hadn't been put in or had leaked out. Anyway it had overheated
and the metal had fractured.) We had to spend a night in a crummy motel
in the middle of nowhere with nothing to do but worry. They finally got
us back on the road and we continued our trip. We got about 50 miles before
the rear end failed again. They hadn't tightened the drain plug and the
lubricant had run out. The service station that had just repaired it came
up and, with the help of a local station, patched it up again. We continued
on to Vegas but after paying for all the repairs we didn't have the money
(or faith in the car) to continue our trip so we just went home and back to work after a couple of days. That car was never right after that and before long I traded it in on a new Datsun. That Datsun was great and lasted about 6 years and would have lasted much longer except for a leaky gravel truck and my incorrect belief that I could make it off the freeway to a service station. But that's another story. - Anonymous |
| I guess it wasn't a real vacation, just driving from Raleigh, NC to the coast for a 3 day weekend. This was the same week last year that FL had recently been hit my 3 major hurricanes in a 1 week span. We had a great seafood dinner Friday night, planned to go for a swim, but the weather went to hell. It was fascinating to stand on the fishing pier of our hotel, watching the hurricane roar in, but we both realized the weekend was shot. Around 7:00 AM on Saturday, we were awakened by a passing freight train. It suddenly occured to me that the train tracks were 3 miles away. I opened the drapes, and saw everything not nailed down flying through the parking lot. Ernie turned on The Weather Channel, and we found out there was a tornado. Every comparison you've heard about a tornado and a train rushing by are true. - Anonymous |
| So
I'm on my fourth year of visiting St.Thomas, Virgin Islands with my best
friend and her family. At this point I'm 17 years old, one year away from
being able to drink legally. After seeing all you can see on a small island
resort for four years straight, things tend to get tense amongst the party.
The first day I was calling home to my parents and boyfriend saying how
I wanted to come home. The next day I woke up and my throat was swollen almost shut. It stayed like that for the rest of the week. On top of that, I think we chose the week with the most amount of rainy days. It was nice probably about two. So it's finally time to leave and I can't wait! I pack up all of my stuff, pretending to be sad about leaving and throw it into the taxi. On the way to the airport, the taxi breaks down, we have to call another taxi and switch and as I step out of the car I step into a huge pile of green lizard poop! I had flip-flops on! I wiped that off and got into the other taxi. As we approach the airport I see tons of people standing outside. When we finally get some news from some of the bystanders we understand that there has been a volcano eruption and no plans are allowed to fly out. YAY! Another day in hell! So we threw all of our stuff onto another taxi, paid for another night at the hotel, and got really drunk. Attempt number two: we arrive at the airport and are asked to get onto a scale to weigh ourselves, first clue to the type of aircraft we would be taking. We walk outside and see a 10 ft long play-toy train we are about to board. On the way over, the guy in front of me passed out, the plane shook the whole time, and we were over water for the entire "flight." This plane took us to Puerto Rico in which no one spoke English and all of the workers were on a lunch break. We finally get a hold of someone who spoke English and he asked for our I.D.s at which point he then ran off into the back somewhere. I thought, "Wow this is great I will have to live in Puerto Rico." Finally he comes back and gives us everything we need, we boarded a huge plane with firstclass tickets and only 8 passengers, what a reward. Oh it doesn't stop there though. We get back to Pittsburgh and wait for our luggage. Never arrived!!!! - Danielle, Pittsburgh PA |
| I was going to Ottercrest with my family, and when we got there, there was a group of people there. It turned out that the wife of the guy who let us use his room gave the other group the room for the weekend! So we were stuck with 4 beds, 1 kitchen, 1 TV, and 1 bathroom between 15 people! 4 moms, 3 annoying 8 year old boys, 5 4-10 year old girls, me, and 2 girls who did not like me a bit! Not fun. - Anonymous |
| Every year my family rents a vacation house on the beach in San Diego Ca. We usually rent from the same rental company, but this time we went with another company that friends had rented from and had no problems in the past. Since we go on the 4th of July every year, you usually have to rent the beach house back in January. Well I called the company and picked our beach house and paid my deposit. I received my confirmation papers in the mail and i didn't need to send the balance until 1 month before we arrive. When the 1st of June came around, I mailed in my balance. About 1 week before we were to arrive I called the company to make sure they had averything they needed and that our beach house will be waiting. I called and just got a recording saying that because of the busy season, just leave a message and they would return our call. Well I left a message and never got a call back. So about 2 days before our trip I called again and got the same message and I again left another message and No call back. I still was not really concerned because We have been doing this every year on the 4th of July for about 3 years and I have friends that have used this company before. Well that day came. My family, which were very excited to go to the beach for the week and Both my kids(which are teenagers) had a couple of friends coming also. We are from Arizona and Arizona is very hot in the summer, so we couldn't wait to get there. We arrive in San Diego early afternoon and went right to the companys office. We get there and I go up to the door and No one is there and no sign anyone had been there for some time. I went to the little store next door and asked them did this company move. The man at the store said, Didn't you hear, they went out of business and took hundreds of peoples money. I was in shock. I called a couple of other rental companies to see if this was true and they said , unfortunaly yes and that they had been gone for a few months. So here my family and friends are on the busiest weekend of the summer with no place to stay. I was deveasted. I cryed. I was out $3,000.00 and what really upset me was that I had only paid a $500.00 deposit, but Just 30 days before we arrived I mailed the balance in not knowing they were ripping people off and they cashed my check and ran. We ended up paying out another $2000.00 for another beach home that just happen that somone had cancelled at the last minute and we got it. Well at least we didn't have to turn around and go home, but what an expensive week that was. It turns out this lady that ran this company stoled Thousands and Thoudands of dollars from about 160 other familys and landlords. As of last year 2004, The last I heard about this lady is that she was in canada and the district attorney said they are just waiting to grab her when she comes over the border. Im sure we will never get any of our money back. - Anonymous |
| I'm 17 and me and my boyfriend went on vacation to New Hampshire. I thought we were staying in a hotel, but actually we were staying in some remote cabin out in the woods! I was fine during the daytime, but at night I started getting nervous- I started thinking that there was no one around for miles and some homeless guys were seen with knives that day and they were spotted only a few hours ago a couple miles away! Times double whe he made me watch "The Ring" with him that night. So afterwards, we went to bed, and I woke up around midnight to go to the bathroom. I didn't know it, but there was a huge, flat cliff wall in back of the cavern, and some hudlum kids went out and spraypainted the place. So when I was coming back from the bathroom, I looked out the window, and I saw this HUGE, GREEN, GLOWING CIRCLE!!!!! Of course, I started screaming (I mean seriously, what are the chances of THAT happening after wathcing "The Ring"?) and my B/F came running, and we were packed and outta there in the blink of an eye! - Tiffany |