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Group trips that tested your sanity
Topic Started: May 19 2010, 04:02 AM (663 Views)
Quillian
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So... anyone got any horror stories about group trips from the past? (With the thread about proms, it seems like people are in a mood for sharing stories such as this.)
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Most of my school trips were either a fuckin' blast, or unpleasant for reasons I can't quite remember and probably don't really want to anyway.
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This.
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Most trips that I've been on have been alright to decent. Like East linked for example our EN get together.
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Speaking of Alton towers is the one for this year still going ahead?
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I dont believe it would be Alton Towers this year. More like Legoland Windsor. lol.
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Somewhere where they don't turn off the roadsigns at night, anyway.
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Eh, school trips were always agreeable to me.

Now family trips, on the other hand...
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Quillian,May 19 2010
04:02 AM
So... anyone got any horror stories about group trips from the past? (With the thread about proms, it seems like people are in a mood for sharing stories such as this.)

When I lived in Omaha, Nebraska, a group of us would road-trip to GenCon, the big North American gaming convention. This involved finding a rental car which could fit 4-5 adult males, each with 5 days' luggage, plus gaming supplies and food for the trip.

The group had exactly one driver who didn't have a raft of traffic citations to his name -- me. Unfortunately, I was also under age 25, which meant most rental co's wouldn't rent to me... at least, not directly.... >:)

The plan was: One of our number would rent the car, and drive it away; for the trip itself, I would do the driving there and back; and then the renter would return the car.

I should have guessed this trip would be Fucked Up when I went with our Name Renter to the rental place to collect the car -- and his credit card was rejected for being overdrawn. This *after* we had paid him for our shares of the rental. (The nuking of his ass was saved for after the trip....)

So we got a rental from a place with, shall we say, less-stringent requirements -- and worse choice in cars: We would up with a Hyundai Excel hatchback:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyundai_Excel .

This for four adults, with luggage and gaming supplies.

We got out the Vaseline and crowbars, loaded everything up, and headed east.

The weather was typical for the Midwest US in August -- either stinking hot (and I do mean "stinking" -- this is Cattle Country :P ), or pissing down rain. But we persevered, and made good time.

It was just past the Illinois-Wisconsin border that I looked out the windshield, and noticed how the sky was neatly divided -- to one side, bright, clear blue sky and sunshine; to the other, pitch-black, with occasional jagged white vertical streaks.

A note on Midwestern weather: 'Round about 2PM on summer days, the air reaches a point where it has all the humidity and electrical energy it can hold; at which point, it releases *all of it at once*. This is why airlines are forever being delayed -- acft. can't fly in that level of thunderstorm.

We were in a Motorized Rollerskate.

I told the crew, "I am going to push this thing as fast as it will go; the first raindrop hits the windshield, I *STOP*, because we are going to get fucking *DELUGED*."

I did, and I did, and we were. One moment I'm doing 120 MPH in a Hyundai Excel; the next I'm doing about 5 in a front-wheel-drive paddleboat. But I did manage to keep the thing going at 120 for a good five minutes, with no signs of slowing (the LAPD was *right*! >:) ).

Eventually the storm passed, and we made it to Milwaukee, Wisconsin; however, of the several trips I made, that one was the least-pleasant.
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Group trips no. I have a few stories about why you shouldn't ever force ten girls to share a flat mind you.
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If two people counts as a group...the West Texas Weekend Tour.

El Paso to Las Cruces to Alamagordo to Amarillo to Lubbock to El Paso. One weekend, one thousand miles, and a total waste of gas, much of it expended at 100+ MPH to no good end.
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Hmm... Only one I could think of at the moment would be a school field trip to Universal Studios. After an hour-long drive through lots of traffic, the bus broke down literally one mile away from the place. However, because they legally cannot let us walk that distance, they had to call in another bus, forcing us to wait yet another hour for them to get there just so we could go one mile.
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Kyubi,May 25 2010
05:00 AM
Hmm... Only one I could think of at the moment would be a school field trip to Universal Studios.

Which one, Hollywood, or Florida?
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csadn,May 24 2010
10:33 PM
Kyubi,May 25 2010
05:00 AM
Hmm... Only one I could think of at the moment would be a school field trip to Universal Studios.

Which one, Hollywood, or Florida?

Hollywood. I live in California, and it's only about a 40-minute drive away.
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wedding in texas, while we stilled lived in Montana, all 5 of my family in a single car.

I managed better than most by messing with a TI-83 calculator the whole way, made my first black jack game then.
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Yikes, almost forgot to post on the thread which I started... pardon me...

I got 2 examples...

Example #1 was a group trip, except it wasn't caused by anyone in my group. It's back in 6th grade (so I'm 11 at the time), and we're at the Museum of Natural History in NYC (anyone ever been there before?). We're in the section showing wax statues of human evolutionary ancestors... and in comes a group of what were most likely 3rd-graders (thus approximately 8 years old).

They see all these replicas of early humans (which, bear in mind, aren't fully clothed and are naked for the most part) and they just laugh raucously and annoyingly, pretty much pissing off my group and anyone else present.

I just wanted to yell at them to SHUT THE HELL UP.

Example #2 was when I went to Israel on that trip this past winter. My group was geared more to people with learning disabilities and the like, and since I have Asperger's Syndrome, I was persuaded to go with that one.

However, barely a day into the trip, I talk with a few more of the participants (the more higher-functioning ones such as myself), and I also get the same vibes as them that we get the impression that we're purposely being babied, as if we can't handle stuff which "normal" people can. For the most part, this argument of theirs hinged on them (1.) not getting along with other participants with their own little quirks and personalities and (2.) not getting to go ride on any camels (personally, this didn't bother me, I didn't care for any camels or riding thereof, since I've never even gone riding horses because of the smell), and thus, if they hadn't been on this trip geared to the people with learning disabilities, they would have had a fun and better time. (Not necessarily true: My brother went on a different trip about the year before, one geared more for college-age partiers, and even he had to deal with some people he didn't like or get along with; and as for the camels, my brother went on one and the darn thing didn't do what he wanted it to do.)

Fortunately and thankfully, we found out very early on that this wasn't the case (that is, they weren't purposely babying us). If anything helped to dispel that notion, in my honest opinion, I think it was them taking us to that winery which makes all their wines from practically anything other than grapes, and even letting us buy wine from there.

(Also, Eastwood? Remember when I told you about coffee-flavored wine on another thread? This was the place, Morad Winery. Maybe translation software would work here, like Firefox add-ons?)
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Quillian,Jun 8 2010
03:02 AM
Example #1 was a group trip, except it wasn't caused by anyone in my group. [...]

At least they were in the same room -- I nearly got screwed out of a trip by someone who'd been there *four years earlier*.

In 8th Grade, students with the best combo of grades and behavior were permitted to take a "field trip" to Washington DC (we were in California, so this was a Big Deal). My brother (older) got to go on the trip -- and proceeded to wander off and almost force the entire group (some 40 kids and chaperones) to miss a vitally-important subway connection.

Guess who then gets told "because of this, we think it might be a good idea if *you* didn't go"?

This was not the first, nor the last, time I ripped faculty members new assholes -- I believe it was the only time I was able to do so with the full spread of Anglo-Saxon Vocabulary in my possession. I was pulling in principals, teachers, and random passers-by with my unsubtle explanation of how I was not my brother (thank god), I knew enough to be at Point A at Time B, since the location was at the Nat'l Air and Space Museum there was precisely *zero* chance of me not being in the building at the appointed time, and various other factors.

I got to go. >:)
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08:28 PM
Group trips no. I have a few stories about why you shouldn't ever force ten girls to share a flat mind you.

I have a feeling from your emoticon that they're gonna be completely disgusting and you'd better tell all. 5:1 that Feldoon vomits first.
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Sabre_Justice,Jun 8 2010
08:27 AM
Webmistress L,May 24 2010
08:28 PM
Group trips no. I have a few stories about why you shouldn't ever force ten girls to share a flat mind you.

I have a feeling from your emoticon that they're gonna be completely disgusting and you'd better tell all. 5:1 that Feldoon vomits first.

Maybe not as disgusting as you'd think but it almost drove me insane towards the end...of the first two months. I'll have to write it up at one point and make a thread, perhaps throw in some pictures.

The sad part? The guy who manned the front desk of the place said that he'd seen worse living spaces when I offically moved out.
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08:53 PM
The sad part? The guy who manned the front desk of the place said that he'd seen worse living spaces when I offically moved out.

I've seen the aftermath of a hotel room which had one gamer registered and *eight* gamers present during GenCon weekend. You've heard jokes about "pizza on the ceiling"? Try "pizza on the ceiling in the bathroom" -- among other, less-pleasant, uses for pizza (hint: They clogged the loo).
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I went into a place called the Witch's House in my town. A woman killed her husband for cheating on her. And it has always had an evil presence in the house since the beginning. As soon as you get in there, you feel heavy and like you don't belong.
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Dakatsu,Jun 9 2010
01:22 PM
I went into a place called the Witch's House in my town. A woman killed her husband for cheating on her. And it has always had an evil presence in the house since the beginning. As soon as you get in there, you feel heavy and like you don't belong.

What if you never feel like you've belonged anywhere else?
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Then I'd be dead.
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Dakatsu,Jun 9 2010
02:22 PM
And it has always had an evil presence in the house since the beginning. As soon as you get in there, you feel heavy and like you don't belong.

Hahaha. It's funny because expectations and mind tricks.
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Feldoon,Jun 10 2010
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Dakatsu,Jun 9 2010
02:22 PM
And it has always had an evil presence in the house since the beginning.  As soon as you get in there, you feel heavy and like you don't belong.

Hahaha. It's funny because expectations and mind tricks.

HEY. There's also a shortage of oxygen apparently.
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