Whats your worst vacation story !!!!
Sep 2, 2008 11:07 pm
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Hello all after about a year of major changes and a big move i have a lighter workload so i hope to be able to return to railbirds more often and become more active in tourneys,message boards , and forumn... I decided too write about one of my worst vacations stories as a kid and ask that you include yours as well
When I was 10 years old, my dad, his friend, his friend's family, and us kids went on vacation down to Florida for Christmas break. But no, we didn't fly down, we went in this crappy camper that we bought for maybe 200 dollars. When we had finally reached Florida, the camper broke down in this area called "The Florida Bermuda Triangle", and then the camper started on fire! Since we had no running water, my dad and his friend had to douse it with beer. We had managed to get it as far as a small town gas station with a car shop, when the owners - a married couple - started fighting, causing the woman to cry. At this point, I would have just walked home. We got a taxi to Orlando (the taxi driver had called me a boy my Mom had given me a bowl cut which i hated , and we stayed in a hotel for one night that cause most of us to broke out in a rash . The next hotel we went to was much better, but then one of my dad's friend's daughters, started to fight with me, so there went our good time together. In the last hotel we stayed in, there were bees outside by the pool and the followed us anywhere and everywhere. We wound up getting bad sunburns and fighting over the tv. The crappy camper was fixed reeked of smoke and beer and my mother kept on yelling at us to keep still so the camper wouldnt break. I'm still surprised that we had made it home in one piece. hahahhaha!
If your not laughing your not living!!! ;-) best of luck off and on the felt
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LOL I dont have one from when I was a kid but I do have one from last year.
My friend asked me to go on vacation with her to the bahamas and ALL I HAD TO PAY FOR WAS MY PORT FEES AND FOOD. LMAO Right. Well we were almost to the hotel we would be spending the night in when her car broke down on 95 in west palm beach. We waited in the heat (July) and waited and waited. Rode to the car repair shop and then the hotel. The place was ok but the food was expensive and tasted like crap. Then I find out she needs to sit through a sales seminar the next day and I was to wait out in the car. So much fun for me. We finally get on a crappy lil ship that I was worried would never make it to the Bahamas but we did. Where I paid for this and that and that and that. LOL Thats not even bad the money part. She has a breathing problem and so we had walked to the beach from the Atlantis hotel and had a good time for the most part. On the way back she could not walk back up the slope to leave the beach and I am carrying everything and she is holding on to me. We get back to the boat and I am exhausted. Laid down for a brief nap and woke up sick as a dog. I had sun poisoning (eyes swollen shut, nauseous, and omg the boat was rocking). All the way back to port the boat went up the boat went down. (FUN)
Ok so we got back the car was fixed. NOT had to sit there and wait. (The owner and his mother were very nice.)
We get on the road finally headed to Orlando to Sea World. We check in better place to stay this time and the next morning we head to another seminar this one i go through the whole thing with her. Then off to Sea World where I push her up the hills and hold her as we go down the hills because she thought a wheel chair would be easier on her. LOL Was very easy on her not so much on me. We leave go back to the hotel and the next morning we go back cause she did not get to see everything she wanted to. As we go to leave a tropical storm hits and lightening is coming down torrential rains and eind to blow you to texas. They evacuate the park lmao where are we supposed to go? To the car at the back of the lot of course.
We did make it home barely as the car started to konk out again. She tells everyone we had a great time and I am like never again in my life.
The other day my husband got an offer for a trip like that and I said HELL NOooooooooooooooo
Ok so laugh cause it is freaking hilarious and the vacation from hell.
Wow Ninja, sorry to say, but that sounds like it wasnt very much fun at all. I hope uve had nicer vacations since then. Here is my worst vacation story:
Back about 14 years ago, when I lived in Calif., my boyfriend Mike and I decided we needed a vacation. Mike told his best friend Jimmy that we were gonna go camping and Jimmy came up with this terrific plan(or so I thought at the time). Jimmy has a brother that lives near Lake Havasu, AZ and told us that it was a great place to go camping. Mike and I, Jimmy and his girlfriend Karen loaded up the vehicles and off we went on this great adventure. It took us most of the day and part of the night to get to Jimmys brother house only to find out they didnt have room for us to stay in the house, so Mike and I ended up sleeping in the boat in the driveway while Jimmy and Karen slept in their truck. The next morning, we all get up, get the boat loaded with all of our stuff and head down to the lake~there is supposedly this fantastic spot across the lake that we just had to go to. We get to this great spot, when Mike and Jimmy realize they left some of our equipment back at the truck, so they decide to leave Karen and I there and go back for it. It is now about 3 or 4 pm in the afternoon, so Karen and I decide were gonna get the tents set up and the tarp over the picnic table so when the guys get back we could have dinner ready b4 it got dark. Ha Ha that was a joke, right after they left in the boat and we started setting up camp, what comes wandering into our camp but a SKUNK. There is nowhere to go to get away from this damn skunk, so Karen and I found the highest place we could find, whcih was on top of the picnic table and there we sat, hoping and praying this damn skunk would just leave. But oh no, we ended up sitting on that picnic table for about 2 hours, and no guys back yet. Finally the skunk gets tired of raising his tail and threatening us and decides to go terrorize elsewhere. The guys come back, we tell them what happened and they just laughed hysterically. After we got camp set up and dinner done, I was pretty tired, so I told them all I was gonna go lay down in the tent for a while. They said they were gonna go exploring(in the almost darkness?) So Im laying in the tent almost alseep and i hear this rattling noise outside and think "what the hell is that?" I unzip the tent, poke my head out the door and see the hugest RACCOON Ive ever seen in my life, running off with our hamburger buns. I yell "hey" and this freakin raccoon drops the buns, turns and looks and me and growls. Im like OMFG, hes gonna charge me and I start screaming for Mike and Jimmy. The raccoon grabs the buns and starts running. Mike and Jimmy come flying into camp wanting to know whats wrong and when I tell them, they start laughing hysterically again. By this time, Im ready to pack up and go home, Im tired, this trip wasnt how I thought it was gonna be and Im just cranky and irritable. A little while later, the guys got a campfire started and we were all standing around it roasting marshmellows, when all of a sudden, something slams into the left side of my head, my head turns to the right and there go my glasses flying in midair. I start screaming at the top of my lungs and all 3 of them are asking me what happened. I tell them that something slammed into my head, so they start looking around and lo and behold, there is a BAT laying on the ground about 10 feet away from me, not dead, just stunned and all 3 of them start laughing hysterically all over again. Thats it, "IM DONE" I yell and went storming off to the tent and stayed there for the rest of the night and half the next day. That 1st day of our 8 day trip was the worst ever for any vacation Ive ever taken. Then, to make matters worse, a few days after Im home, Im watching a documentary on animals and this is what the guy on the show says "In the United States, rabies is found the most in these 3 animals~~SKUNKS, RACCOONS AND BATS!! Needless to say, that was the last time I went camping with Mike and his friends EVER!!!
lol, too funny....
mine is pretty quick...
My mom, my brother and I were going up to Michigan in a rental car, when we got to Indiana, an elk was trying to cross the highway, and made it as far as the back of our rental car. My brother was laying in the backseat, and luckily, he was laying a certain way, cuz otherwise, he would've prob been hurt really bad. Needless to say, (i was ten), I was crying because the elk died...... Then the car wouldn't restart, because it flipped some switch that killed the ignition, and the fuel pump, so the car wouldn't burst into flames.
Good Luck E1.