Holiday Travel Fun/Rant

ElysiumGX

I know some of you are traveling this holiday. People are stressed, their schedules are getting mixed up, they have hyper-active children tagging along, or perhaps the american school system never properly instructed them on how to friggin operate turn signals. Be safe out there, and be prepared.

My first of two holiday trips is over, and somewhat eventful. I haven't attended a family christmas dinner in my hometown (mom's side) in over 5 years. I made it this year, and after the party I gave my younger brother a ride to my grandparents' house nearby. There are usually several relatives stopping by, and they have a small driveway, so I parked in the open grassy lot just across the road, right along the side walk. Less than two hours later, I got back in the car to drive to a hotel, but my car wouldn't move properly. My right front tire was completely flat. I pulled into my grandpa's driveway and checked it again with a flashlight. There was a thick clean cut right along the side wall. We checked all possibilities, then realized that some little punkass had walked up and jabbed a knife into one of my new tires. I don't know who or why. I'm not so angry about the damage, although it's gonna cost me. I'm more pissed off at the fact someone would do something like this, and walk away...and around Christmas. I had a dough-nut in the back to get me to the hotel, and the tire garage this morning, and used last night's Xmas money from relatives to buy a used tire to get me home. Tomorrow I use what money I had for Xmas shopping to re-buy the tire I run, if the garage or my insurance doesn't cover the event of vandalism. I'm feeling the Christmas spirit all over. Fortunately, they didn't key the car, or I would have been out for blood and received plenty of coal in my stocking.

Any more exciting stories to tell?

Drive carefully out there, keep all presents and valueables out of site, and beware of all the crazies trying to ruin it for everyone.

CheapAlert

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steady

sometimes i have the urge to dress up like a ninja and hide in a tree and when i see wrong doing i would spring out and hog tie the person, maybe torture them a little, and leave them on the ground with a post-it note on their forehead saying what they did. that would be awesome

PfhorRunner

steady, you try too hard.

ElysiumGX

st3ady: that would be awesome. so where were you?!

steady

hahahah i have never done it, ... yet!
best holiday wishes to everyone!

eXpendabLe

I'm not one to make fun of someone's misfortunes.. hope the rest of your holiday is SUPERFRAGILISTIC!

cholden

Most of my holiday stress involves air travel. Over Thanksgiving, I had multiple flight delays which left me stuck in Atlanta airport over night. That cut my week short that went right into flying to the west coast for a job interview. Now I'm flying back east for Christmas this week. On top of all this is the price of airfare during the holidays. Even though I got my tickets early, they still scammed me for ridiculous amounts of money that could have been spent going to amazing places on the off season. So little time in the month of December.

Nerd Groupie

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And how! I went to a mall this weekend and truly wanted to hurt many, many, many people. Especially the idiot guys at Sears that were too busy discussing football to help me with digi cams. (thank you best buy!)

As for traveling, I just have to drive to my hometown. No roommate thankfully, so it should be nice and peaceful. The only concern I have about Christmas at all is that it's the first one without my dad.

Ruz

Without your dad? how do mean nerd groupie?

Nerd Groupie

He died in June.

danr

slightly o/t, but a christmas rant nonetheless ...

i don't know about anyone else in the UK, but i'm sick to fucking death of that Coca Cola ad that plays every year and tells me that "holidays are coming, holidays are coming". Eh? I'm british, i have my holidays in the summer, or generally around may. Or whenever i get a bit of free time.

Ruz

shit , sorry to hear that Nerd Groupie. I have been through that and know how much it hurts. chin up.

swampbug

I hate the whole traveling thing. I dont mind flying, but just the zombie crowd behavior freaks me out in airports. I hate people in large groups. You can see the Animal in everyone when things arent going smoothly and irritation is rising.

I liked it when i was 9 and had to drive 1 hour with my family to grandparents house.

Now its.. Drive 12 hrs across 3 states to visit one side. Or fly down to Florida to visit another side.