Who Was Your Worst Ever Traveling Companion
May 25th, 2006, 08:30 AM
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This thread is to travel as the country's worst sofa is to furniture: http://www.rt1automile.com/web/mall/ugly/ scroll down to see the photos.
Thank God this thread doesn't have any pictures!!
Thank God this thread doesn't have any pictures!!
May 25th, 2006, 09:16 AM
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DD at Ga Tech was in a quad room set up as a "bedroom" with 2 sets of bunks and a "sitting area" with a dilapidated chair and a terrible sofa that I could not bring myself to sit upon. They thought it was just wonderful, but their sofa could have been an entry in that contest. Especially after the Food Accident, lol!
Aug 23rd, 2006, 07:44 AM
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This is my mom's story rather than mine. But since she refuses to get a computer, I guess it's mine to tell.
She went on a two week trip to Italy with her church widow's group.
She was paired with a woman she knew pretty well. I guess you never really know someone until you stay with them.
The woman had brought 2 sets of clothing for 2 weeks!! I am including underwear! She did not wear deoderant and did not bring a toothbrush or toothpaste. She wandered off several times, causing the entire tour to grind to a halt, once for over 2 hours.
My mom spent every night after her shower spraying her roommates clothing with Febreeze. The woman never even noticed. Although she probably has no sense of smell left.
She went on a two week trip to Italy with her church widow's group.
She was paired with a woman she knew pretty well. I guess you never really know someone until you stay with them.
The woman had brought 2 sets of clothing for 2 weeks!! I am including underwear! She did not wear deoderant and did not bring a toothbrush or toothpaste. She wandered off several times, causing the entire tour to grind to a halt, once for over 2 hours.
My mom spent every night after her shower spraying her roommates clothing with Febreeze. The woman never even noticed. Although she probably has no sense of smell left.
Aug 23rd, 2006, 09:57 AM
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My family vacationed at Topsail Beach, NC with my mom's uncle from Toronto, Uncle Joe, and his long suffering wife, Melonia. He drank Canadian Club heavily for two weeks, never ventured to the beach in daytime, stumbling down to the beach once at night. Aunt Mel got very sick with sun stroke, of which Uncle Joe was largely indifferent except for an occasional boast that he would charter a jet to fly Aunt Mel back to Toronto. The one time out for dinner Uncle Joe fell flat on the floor of the restaurant and loudly claimed that my dad had tripped him on purpose.
As we deposited Uncle Joe and Aunt Mel at the airport in Jacksonville, Joe had an encore for us. To a black porter he bellowed, "Pick up my bags, boy!" Before boarding the plane he boasted that he had once visited the greatest city in the world-- Leningrad. Of course, he had never been. It was 1976, the Cold War was in full swing, and he wanted to annoy as many Americans
as possible.
Uncle Joe was quite a character. A butcher by trade, he used to go to Maple Leaf games with a freshly chopped chicken and derisively wave it at the Maple Leaf players. The one time we visited Uncle Joe in Toronto, future Redskin and ex-Notre Dame quarterback Joe Theismann played on the local CFL team, the Toronto Argonauts. Uncle Joe bellowed during a game that he hoped the opposition would "break every bone in his (Theismann's) ***damned body."
Uncle Joe ended up drinking himself to death. This enabled poor, dear Aunt Mel to live the rest of her life in peace.
As we deposited Uncle Joe and Aunt Mel at the airport in Jacksonville, Joe had an encore for us. To a black porter he bellowed, "Pick up my bags, boy!" Before boarding the plane he boasted that he had once visited the greatest city in the world-- Leningrad. Of course, he had never been. It was 1976, the Cold War was in full swing, and he wanted to annoy as many Americans
as possible.
Uncle Joe was quite a character. A butcher by trade, he used to go to Maple Leaf games with a freshly chopped chicken and derisively wave it at the Maple Leaf players. The one time we visited Uncle Joe in Toronto, future Redskin and ex-Notre Dame quarterback Joe Theismann played on the local CFL team, the Toronto Argonauts. Uncle Joe bellowed during a game that he hoped the opposition would "break every bone in his (Theismann's) ***damned body."
Uncle Joe ended up drinking himself to death. This enabled poor, dear Aunt Mel to live the rest of her life in peace.
Aug 23rd, 2006, 10:32 AM
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On our honeymoon, my husband and I were in Arizona and in the middle of the night I woke up smelling a burning smell, and unknown to me my husband had gotten cold and turned on the heater (prob had never been used before) and set off the fire alarms. I have no idea if it was just our rooms that went off or not, but no one came. So, throwing on clothes we eventually got them turned off after we opened the doors. So FYI: don't use heaters when you are in a hot place.. and make sure you have clothes on before opening doors...
Aug 23rd, 2006, 10:43 AM
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Have you ever had a 103 degree fever with strep throat, abondoned on the side of the road in Montana with the temp outside being 104 degrees and with the heat on full blast in the car? Okay, my husband got a FREE van from a relative (don't ever take a free van) and we were driving it from Michigan to Washington state. The radiator was apparently shot. Every few miles we had to stop because smoke would pour out..and add water. We were trying to make it to a town and get me to a Doctor. We made it to some tiny town before the thing just erupted with smoke. So, stuck at a gas station we called everywhere trying to find a new radiatior, but it was a holiday weekend and everything was closed. SO we stayed in a old motel by the gas station for 2 days before we could get a radiator. I did get some medication, so my fever left, but we still drove the rest of the way home going 50 MPH with the heat full blast "just in case" as my husband said.
Aug 23rd, 2006, 11:37 AM
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How did I miss this first go around?? I have laffed and laffed...thanks guys.
This happened to my parents, not me, but it becomes even funnier as their story as they were very very proper and well-bred New Englanders (and I am not! LOL). After Dad retired, they had a place in Bonita Beach they went to every winter. One winter my aunt and her sister-in-law joined them for the winter. My aunt was such a sweet lady. I doubt the word "drat" would ever have crossed her lips, but her sister-in-law was cut from a different cloth. On top of everything else, she was morbidly obese and ate like there was no tomorrow.
Thanksgiving, a group of my parents friends from their condo decided they would all go out to a nice restaurant in Sanibel for Thanksgiving dinner. My parents, not wanting my aunt (my Dad's sister) to be by herself asked my aunt and her sister-in-law to come along as well. Although they had misgivings about the sister-in-law...of course she had to be included.
The dinner was a buffet and sister-in-law heaped huge quantities of food onto her plate, an awesome sight they said, and proceeded to shovel it in just as fast as she possibly could, returning for refills of equally large portions. Suddenly, toward the end of the meal at this long table of retirees, sister-in-law has eaten such huge quantities so fast, that with no warning what-so-ever, she bows her head and vomits right into her plate. Not only does she vomit, but a complete set of dentures comes out with it, also into the plate. Lawsy. One of the other diners at the table was a doctor who rushed to be sure her airways were clear as she seemed then to be in a stupor. My parents were chagrined and my poor aunt...
That doesn't top your tales by any stretch of the imagination, but lawsy what a picture!!
This happened to my parents, not me, but it becomes even funnier as their story as they were very very proper and well-bred New Englanders (and I am not! LOL). After Dad retired, they had a place in Bonita Beach they went to every winter. One winter my aunt and her sister-in-law joined them for the winter. My aunt was such a sweet lady. I doubt the word "drat" would ever have crossed her lips, but her sister-in-law was cut from a different cloth. On top of everything else, she was morbidly obese and ate like there was no tomorrow.
Thanksgiving, a group of my parents friends from their condo decided they would all go out to a nice restaurant in Sanibel for Thanksgiving dinner. My parents, not wanting my aunt (my Dad's sister) to be by herself asked my aunt and her sister-in-law to come along as well. Although they had misgivings about the sister-in-law...of course she had to be included.
The dinner was a buffet and sister-in-law heaped huge quantities of food onto her plate, an awesome sight they said, and proceeded to shovel it in just as fast as she possibly could, returning for refills of equally large portions. Suddenly, toward the end of the meal at this long table of retirees, sister-in-law has eaten such huge quantities so fast, that with no warning what-so-ever, she bows her head and vomits right into her plate. Not only does she vomit, but a complete set of dentures comes out with it, also into the plate. Lawsy. One of the other diners at the table was a doctor who rushed to be sure her airways were clear as she seemed then to be in a stupor. My parents were chagrined and my poor aunt...
That doesn't top your tales by any stretch of the imagination, but lawsy what a picture!!
Aug 23rd, 2006, 01:22 PM
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White water rafting on the Kennebec River in Maine. I can't swim. We are wearing life vests. While we were taking a break in the rafts my "frieennd" yanked me out of the raft and into the water. He knew I can't swim. I was dragged back into the raft spitting and choking. He got a LOT of grief. I never had to say a word.
Aug 23rd, 2006, 01:47 PM
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OO--OMG, that is a hilarious story!!!
I read this thread when it began, and mentioned that the stories make my one relative who we travel with occassionally seem tame. Well, we traveled together again this summer. LAST TIME!!! I told my husband to never allow me to be suckered into that again.
I read this thread when it began, and mentioned that the stories make my one relative who we travel with occassionally seem tame. Well, we traveled together again this summer. LAST TIME!!! I told my husband to never allow me to be suckered into that again.
Aug 23rd, 2006, 08:34 PM
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These stories are hilarious! My granddaughter, 8 years old, just came from a visit with her Mom's family in another country, and she said to me, "I will never sleep in the same room with Uncle John (on a cot) again ... he snored real loud and cut the cheese all night!" 
Aug 24th, 2006, 08:34 AM
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About 10 years ago my husband, Gus, and I went on a Caribbean cruise with another couple (Gus worked with the guy).
What do most people do on a cruise? They sit by the pool in their bathing suits and drink Margaritas, right?
Wrong. The other couple would sit with us at the pool in their regular clothes--long-sleeved shirts, pants, shoes (and not because of a fear of skin cancer;that I could understand). They would also chastise us for drinking alcohol!! The wife (I'll call her Betty) actually pulled me aside one day and told me that I was an alcoholic and should be hospitalized!!
I was terrified to drink a glass of wine with my meal. Betty would look on disapprovingly and shake her head if I had a glass of Chardonnay.
Did I mention I smoke? Well, Betty did not approve of this either and told me that the cigarettes had me looking tired and haggard. "Think how beautiful you would be if you stopped smoking those cancer sticks," she would say to me.
"I guess you also don't care if you leave your children motherless?" was another rant of hers.
I spent most of my time hiding from her. The only good thing to come from my "vacation" was that I learned where all the crawl spaces are on a cruise ship. LOL
Christine
What do most people do on a cruise? They sit by the pool in their bathing suits and drink Margaritas, right?
Wrong. The other couple would sit with us at the pool in their regular clothes--long-sleeved shirts, pants, shoes (and not because of a fear of skin cancer;that I could understand). They would also chastise us for drinking alcohol!! The wife (I'll call her Betty) actually pulled me aside one day and told me that I was an alcoholic and should be hospitalized!!
I was terrified to drink a glass of wine with my meal. Betty would look on disapprovingly and shake her head if I had a glass of Chardonnay.
Did I mention I smoke? Well, Betty did not approve of this either and told me that the cigarettes had me looking tired and haggard. "Think how beautiful you would be if you stopped smoking those cancer sticks," she would say to me.
"I guess you also don't care if you leave your children motherless?" was another rant of hers.
I spent most of my time hiding from her. The only good thing to come from my "vacation" was that I learned where all the crawl spaces are on a cruise ship. LOL
Christine
Aug 24th, 2006, 09:26 AM
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I agree with Christine that non-drinkers are downers. My wife's family doesn't drink and are about as fun as watching a toilet refill. I almost have to sneak beers in my own house. I'm sure my sister-in-law thinks I'm an alchi- she's never seen me at my best, however.
Aug 24th, 2006, 10:16 AM
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That last observation is so funny. Thinking about it, my entire extended family is at least 75% total non-drinkers, and the older females all 100% non-drinkers (not taking myself & daughter in the total), and it IS a real downer.
I guess that's why I have lots of friends! LOL!
I guess that's why I have lots of friends! LOL!
