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DreamingofRoses posted:AITA for not listening to and kicking my husband out after he said “I love you” for the first time *furiously swinging baseball bat over and over* Why won't this golden goose die??!
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Poor logistical choices aside, I've also learned to not give a gently caress when on vacation with other people. Yeah, less gets done, but they can feel the regret instead of me—the person who set no goals aside from get up on time and enjoy the sights. Missed the last train? Nice job, idiot. Want to walk around aimlessly all night, sleep on a park bench in a foreign country, or maybe find a group italian orgy to get an STD from?
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May 9, 2024 19:37
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My favorite way to vacation, whether locally or afar, is to play 1-2 things per day depending on the activity length and just allow space for stuff to happen. If they were cutting it that close to the train departure time even before she ordered the dessert, they already hosed up.
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May 9, 2024 19:39
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If your vacation has any planned schedule other than how to get there and how to leave it's not a vacation, it's work.
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May 9, 2024 19:40
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Mordiceius posted:My favorite way to vacation, whether locally or afar, is to play 1-2 things per day depending on the activity length and just allow space for stuff to happen. If they were cutting it that close to the train departure time even before she ordered the dessert, they already hosed up. Hell yeah this is the way to do it, I spent a week in Amsterdam last fall mostly wandering aimlessly around with no particular destination and it owned
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May 9, 2024 19:41
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captainOrbital posted:I gargle with 70% hydrogen peroxide. Highly recommended And if you have any left over after you gargle, you can use it for rocket propellant or mixing up a batch of piranha solution. Or is that  ?
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May 9, 2024 19:46
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Desert Bus posted:If your vacation has any planned schedule other than how to get there and how to leave it's not a vacation, it's work. It's a good ideal but sometimes you want to do something that requires advance tickets and you need a *little* more structure
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mystes posted:She probably literally could have just told the restaurant that they were in a hurry and asked if they could bring out the tiramisu at the same time as the entrees when she ordered them if she wasn't an idiot or order the desert and ask for it to come out a few minutes after the entree.
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May 9, 2024 20:00
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snergle posted:or order the desert and ask for it to come out a few minutes after the entree. You can order and eat dessert first. There's no rule that prevents it!
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May 9, 2024 20:01
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Desert Bus posted:If your vacation has any planned schedule other than how to get there and how to leave it's not a vacation, it's work. I love traveling with my wife's family. The itinerary for any given trip is just a spreadsheet of breakfast/lunch/dinner reservations and then we pretty much figure out what to do based on vibes traveling between them.
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May 9, 2024 20:02
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Desert Bus posted:If your vacation has any planned schedule other than how to get there and how to leave it's not a vacation, it's work. You can have a vacation where you're just chilling or wandering around for a week or you can have a vacation where you're trying to do a lot of sightseeing and going from place to place. If you're doing the latter, you probably actually do need some sort of schedule or it's going to suck.
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May 9, 2024 20:04
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The Maroon Hawk posted:Hell yeah this is the way to do it, I spent a week in Amsterdam last fall mostly wandering aimlessly around with no particular destination and it owned Yeah, I'm not someone that wants to be super rigid about vacations (because like someone else said, then it is work), but for me I go with the general practice of one scheduled event and one flexible event per day - at most. A scheduled event could be "go and eat at <restaurant>" and a flexible event could be "go see <monument>" - poo poo like that.
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May 9, 2024 20:06
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haveblue posted:It's a good ideal but sometimes you want to do something that requires advance tickets and you need a *little* more structure As a person who organised a holiday to Europe in peak season, I agree it actually takes a shitload of planning Tickets to Eiffel tower, the Louvre, the Vatican, you either buy months in advance or have to buy off resellers. Whole dates just get sold out. The catacombs were sold out. I feel on holidays there's the people that just get to show up and enjoy themselves, off the back of the people with the spreadsheets. The boyfriend with the train timetable is the partner with the spreadsheet who knows what time everything opens and closes, the girlfriend is the one who gets to be cutesy and order tiramisu So I think I get it. It can be tiring to be the responsible one!
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May 9, 2024 20:09
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The times when I tend to be more rigid with scheduling is when having family visit me. Both my folks and my in-laws live in fairly rural areas and know jack poo poo about Los Angeles (or previously San Francisco). So I can ask them "What would you like to do?" and the answer will be  . So instead I just pack a schedule with stuff I know they'll enjoy. But even with that, I leave room for flexibility because I don't want them to be exhausted every day.
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May 9, 2024 20:12
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Chewbecca posted:So I think I get it. It can be tiring to be the responsible one! It's exhausting constantly being told "Relax, everything will work out." when you are the one always ensuring it works out by taking care of everything.
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May 9, 2024 20:12
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There's just showing up and enjoying yourself and then there's actively trying to gently caress up the existing schedule. I wonder what her plan was for missing that train and if her sick tiramisu photos were going to pay for a last minute hotel booking.
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May 9, 2024 20:15
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Rescue Toaster posted:It's exhausting constantly being told "Relax, everything will work out." when you are the one always ensuring it works out by taking care of everything. High five, goon. I loving get this so hard lmao
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May 9, 2024 20:27
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There's no such thing as great tiramisu.
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3D Megadoodoo posted:There's no such thing as great tiramisu. Because it's all inherently amazing, so the qualifier isn't needed, right? (Star Wars face) Right?
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May 9, 2024 20:31
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Rescue Toaster posted:It's exhausting constantly being told "Relax, everything will work out." when you are the one always ensuring it works out by taking care of everything. Bobstar posted:Because it's all inherently amazing, so the qualifier isn't needed, right?
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Desert Bus posted:If your vacation has any planned schedule other than how to get there and how to leave it's not a vacation, it's work. That "work" is one of my most fun and obsessive hobbies. I go completely psychotic and overboard about planning a trip, I spend hundreds of hours researching, making multiple itineraries with numerous spreadsheets and word documents, and create custom Google Earth .kml files organized into folders by day so the pins don't get too cluttered. And then during the trip I throw half of it out the window without regret because I know what I've created is actually impossible, but I just find it so much fun. Anything that got missed then gets jotted down in the "for next time" document.
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May 9, 2024 20:53
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SulfurMonoxideCute posted:That "work" is one of my most fun and obsessive hobbies. I go completely psychotic and overboard about planning a trip, I spend hundreds of hours researching, making multiple itineraries with numerous spreadsheets and word documents, and create custom Google Earth .kml files organized into folders by day so the pins don't get too cluttered. And then during the trip I throw half of it out the window without regret because I know what I've created is actually impossible, but I just find it so much fun. Anything that got missed then gets jotted down in the "for next time" document. I'm the same. But I'm also a late-diagnosed autistic. 
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Mordiceius posted:I'm the same. But I'm also a late-diagnosed autistic. We're in the same club then lmao
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May 9, 2024 20:58
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SulfurMonoxideCute posted:That "work" is one of my most fun and obsessive hobbies. I go completely psychotic and overboard about planning a trip, I spend hundreds of hours researching, making multiple itineraries with numerous spreadsheets and word documents, and create custom Google Earth .kml files organized into folders by day so the pins don't get too cluttered. And then during the trip I throw half of it out the window without regret because I know what I've created is actually impossible, but I just find it so much fun. Anything that got missed then gets jotted down in the "for next time" document. Would it surprise you to know that I left that comment as a trap specifically for you lol
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May 9, 2024 20:59
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Sorry for the late reply about H2O2 but i have a story: In the Navy i was fighting with a friend (all in fun) and I got a pretty bad cut on the back of my right hand. One of the boat's chemists happened to see this and said he's got "just the thing for that". Me, being stupid beyond all belief, followed him. So as a bunch of mechanics were holding me down, the chemist brought out the 99.9% pure hydrogen peroxide. Eye dropper on my cut, instant foam. Cauterized immediately. It hurt, a LOT. I may have screamed. To this day, I (as a very freckled person) have that spot on my hand stark white compared to the rest. The end, no moral
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Oh yeah, well my whole friends group is late diagnosed autistics and we collectively put together google sheets for our planned trips, so there. (This is actually true, though my competitive framing is a [hilarious] joke)
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Desert Bus posted:Would it surprise you to know that I left that comment as a trap specifically for you lol Not in the slightest
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SulfurMonoxideCute posted:That "work" is one of my most fun and obsessive hobbies. I go completely psychotic and overboard about planning a trip, I spend hundreds of hours researching, making multiple itineraries with numerous spreadsheets and word documents, and create custom Google Earth .kml files organized into folders by day so the pins don't get too cluttered. And then during the trip I throw half of it out the window without regret because I know what I've created is actually impossible, but I just find it so much fun. Anything that got missed then gets jotted down in the "for next time" document.
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May 9, 2024 21:04
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I don't tell people when I have my Summer holiday because if I do, they'll ask me if I'm planning on travelling and I say no, they'll do something real stupid like starting a sentence with "In that case, could you".
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what sort of stuff do you do on your holiday
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Ominous Jazz posted:what sort of stuff do you do on your holiday
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My cousin and I are excellent traveling companions because in thanks for her doing most of the logistics for the trips I don't complain about poo poo. I'm lucky enough to be enjoying a lovely trip I did very little planning for, aside from submitting some sight seeing requests, I have absolutely no right to complain if plans don't work out or we can't see everything.
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May 9, 2024 21:24
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When I was on vacation with friends, I picked up a pamphlet in the hotel lobby out of boredom. The theme of the pamphlet was "Oh, vacations are so stressful, you have to plan so many activities! Let us help!" (The pictures were all, like, old people on bicycles, it wasn't about keeping your kids entertained.)
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May 9, 2024 21:26
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mystes posted:My father spends so much time planning vacations that I wonder whether he actually needs to do the actual vacation part at the end He needs a vacation from planning the vacation.
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Another favorite genre, someone who has finally hit their limit when it comes to putting up with crap, and fires back with full receipts. AITAH for telling my aunt in front of the entire family, that i do not want to get married early and end up with a pathetic life partner like her? quote:So i come from a culture where half the people get married early, and marry someone their family chooses for them. These days, it has become optional. Yet a lot of people stick to this kind of set up, and the older generations still consider it as ideal. My parents had an arranged marriage too, married at 24 and 22. I am a 23 year old girl, and my parents do everything in their power to get me top tier education, and help me build a good career to support myself financially (again, a very recent thing in my culture to support women being independent). They have never ever pushed me or even planted the seed of the idea of getting married in my head ever till date.  quote:She went pale, got up and left to the guest room. She left later that day without meeting me to say good bye. Everyone in the house at that time yelled at me to be so in sensitive, and not caring about her feelings in hard times. I am sorry and i do want to apologize. But sometimes the things that she says infront of everyone just fumes me up so much, that i just couldnt take it anymore.
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Cloacamazing! posted:He needs a vacation from planning the vacation.
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Halloween Jack posted:When I was on vacation with friends, I picked up a pamphlet in the hotel lobby out of boredom. The theme of the pamphlet was "Oh, vacations are so stressful, you have to plan so many activities! Let us help!"
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Vacation planning can be fun! I've got a trip to France next year to a small coastal city. Scouting the area in Google Maps and looking for restaurants, historical sites, and stuff I just gotta do is a lot of fun.
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3D Megadoodoo posted:I don't tell people when I have my Summer holiday because if I do, they'll ask me if I'm planning on travelling and I say no, they'll do something real stupid like starting a sentence with "In that case, could you". The first way I parsed this was the people were saying "could you [travel]," I genuinely thought you were saying people told you to go the gently caress away for a couple weeks until I reread it
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FMguru posted:Another favorite genre, someone who has finally hit their limit when it comes to putting up with crap, and fires back with full receipts.
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