My "Vacation"

[pilar_zuazo]

TL;DR: My hellion nephew ruined my European vacation with the help of my God-awful sister. LONG-*Edited: Apparently this is getting some trolling vibes so I'll add a couple pics for proof. I'm going to blur out the face of my minor nephew, who I took a couple of pics with before we left since he is a minor, and mine slightly because the internet

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[chocolate_frapp]

I've had better behaved dogs. Next time anyone asks me why I don't like kids I'm linking them to this.

(How do you get chicken pox twice?)

[pilar_zuazo]

I have a dog who is a saint. We dropped a lot of money on one of those perfectly trained dogs from quaint towns. Trevor is a mensch and I adore him. In addition to sit, fetch, and roll he knows 'a little to the left', 'get the remote', and 'jump.'

To answer your second question: my parents never vaccinated us so when we grew up we did it ourselves. But there was this weird epidemic when we were all in school and somehow I managed to avoid it but my parents, my sister, and my brother all got it. I think ti had something to do with the fact that my tenth year of life I lived in my tree house.

[stormrunner1981]

I had chicken pox twice.

The first time wasn't a bad case (and I was really really young) so the immunity didn't kick in.

The second time was worse, I was 8 and the whole 3rd grade wing of the school got it. This was before the vaccine though.

[pilar_zuazo]

My sis is anti-vax, lives in a really affluent community of "those type" of families. Let me stress before I say the type, I respect anyone who lives the vegan, gluten-free, vegetarian lifestyle. It takes a lot of willpower and wherewithal to keep to a strict diet of that type.

Her community is a small one of those irritating, Lululemon wearing, upscale minivan driving, 24-7 Starbucks in hand, judgemental if your kid even side-eyes anything with peanuts, gluten, meat product. She even participated in a protest of the local Arby's. She sincerely wanted a cop to arrest anyone she saw eating from there. She's the type of person who thinks her word is law and gets angry if you break it. I avoid her mostly. Thankfully I live in another state so it works great.

So, that is how her kid got the pox. Because she and her friends-moms and dads very similar to sis-started an epidemic. One kid got it and went to school and it went downhill from there. Every time.

[mywaytofreedom]

What in the world? I have 6 pets and they don't cause me even 1/10th of those trouble. I am sorry..

[pilar_zuazo]

It's cool because Greece was amazing if we got let down by the French part of the trip. Even then what we saw of France was beautiful. We're all from New England in the US so it was a wonderful change of pace. And while we were in Greece we had a wonderful long talk and we agreed that we're happy being proud doggy parents to Trevor, our gorgeous Golden Lab/Husky mix. He's a blond short-haired with husky bone structure and the most amazing blue eyes ever. And a cuddle-bug. He's highly-trained and smart but kinda dopey too.

[ciryatan]

Let's see:

The very first sentence giving off "those vibes" before you even clicked on the cut? Check.
Overly dramatic narrative, including ableist language? Check.
Journal created today? Check.

Yeah... My trolldar's tingling.

[pilar_zuazo]

I usually don't reply to comments like this because it does give off those vibes, the whole the more you defend the worse you make it seem, but please believe me when I tell you this is for real. If it helps, in explanation of the overly-dramatic and ableist way of writing, I don't usually have to tell stories. In that, my job and my life don't usually have me typing out narratives or anything. The most I usually type are emails for work and personal life. I'm sorry it's coming off trollish, I just have no real experience in story-telling, especially online.

As for the journal being created today, I mentioned the trip to a friend who told me about the site so I joined with the purpose of posting this story. Kind of like a throwaway Reddit. Maybe I should have stated that?

I'm sorry it seems unbelievable but I can't really do much more than edit it down to the relevant and have some of the important details (and the entertainment!) be deleted.

*sorry to disappoint*

[piroshki]

Let's see:

Mostly harmless, if detailed, rant about a blasted vacation? Check.
Topic appropriate to childfree? Check.

Let the mods do their job.

[m0rbidm00n]

I would have lost my mind. Glad you enjoyed Greece!

[pilar_zuazo]

We hit up Skopelos. Saw the chapel from Mamma Mia. Not as amazing at it looked in the movie but it was still beautiful. I had pics but TSA confiscated my camera in Greece because I took a pic in the airport. I'm supposed to be compensated but...we'll see.

[spaceship505]

Wow. I don't know what I find more appalling. The way your nephew talked to that lady (and not being disciplined for it) or your sister just dumping her kids on you while you we sleeping and sneaking off like that. WTF?! And then making it out it was your fault for her behaving like that O_o

It just makes me very grateful for my own sister. Who is childfree as well thank goodness.

[pilar_zuazo]

I was telling someone below that my sister is the eldest and acts like that makes her special. Her son came along after seven years of marriage and unexplained infertility so she thinks he's the returning Messiah or something. His little sister came along later by chance and she's treated slightly less than she should be since she didn't come along and dispel the belief my sister was barren. In short, Joey is the spoiled miracle baby. Joey is the family Josie Duggar.

[spaceship505]

And yet she askes if she can sit with you in the plane so she can have a break and later on she dumps the kids on you so she can go off doing whatever. Let me stay polite and say she's full of mixed signals.

[pilar_zuazo]

Oh, she's nuttier than squirrel shit but she is family. She's been highly spoiled so she acts out. But, I mean, she's in her thirties, you'd think she'd know better.

When she asked to move to first with us, she was actually asking for my seat. The only pitfall of our free upgrade was my fiance and I weren't placed together. He was near the front, I was near the back. She was literally asking me to go sit with her kids and husband so she could be alone. She didn't want to sit with me at all. She wanted me to give her my seat. Honestly though, I don't know why she thought that would work because I don't think the FA's can allow that.