- Mar 3, 2003
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Jesus. I'm beyond frustrated right now. So my wife decided 2 weeks ago to tell me that my kids had a couple days off in February and that I should take time off work. So I did. Then the other night she asks me if I want go somewhere in the 5 days we have.
This has happened in the past. Repeatedly. So I'm already harboring some ill-feeling about it. So what usually happens is I say yes, try to start making arragements, and excuses start. XYZ has a test. SSS is too expensive. What do we do with the dog. etc. Inevitably there are enough 'reasons' that we don't go anywhere. So I ask her point blank whether we are actually going this time and whether I should put the time in looking for hotels, local attractions, and things to do. So she gets mad, and tells me that I'm accusing her of it being her fault we don't go (it is, but she always blames it on all the miscellaneous crap that we just 'can't' miss). Later, she makes it clear we are going. Ok. Fine.
So now the really frustrating BS starts. We are 4 hours from Chicago. But all of a sudden, it's too expensive to go to a hotel and keep our car there, because there are 'no hotels with free parking'. So we're taking the train. The freaking train. Which means wasting an ENTIRE day getting there and back. WTF? How does she even come up with this?
So I tell her about the train taking too long. And she says we can just leave earlier. I work till 4 AM. Meaning.... I go straight from work, drive over an hour to a train station, to wait an hour, then take an 8 hour ride to Chicago.... holy shit.
So I email her several hotels with 3 miles of central Chicago that have free parking. I tell her we can Uber of Lyft to get where we need to go. Nope she says. That's just not safe. She doesn't trust Uber and Lyft. So she wants to be near the subway now.
Holy fuck. I can't think of something I want to do LESS than take this trip now. We're going to be tied into riding the Subway everywhere, pay an exorbitant hotel fee to be in the 'middle' of the city... it's just fucking insane.
TLDR:
My wife doesn't really want to go on a trip with the kids and is finding the most insane ways of making things difficult.
This has happened in the past. Repeatedly. So I'm already harboring some ill-feeling about it. So what usually happens is I say yes, try to start making arragements, and excuses start. XYZ has a test. SSS is too expensive. What do we do with the dog. etc. Inevitably there are enough 'reasons' that we don't go anywhere. So I ask her point blank whether we are actually going this time and whether I should put the time in looking for hotels, local attractions, and things to do. So she gets mad, and tells me that I'm accusing her of it being her fault we don't go (it is, but she always blames it on all the miscellaneous crap that we just 'can't' miss). Later, she makes it clear we are going. Ok. Fine.
So now the really frustrating BS starts. We are 4 hours from Chicago. But all of a sudden, it's too expensive to go to a hotel and keep our car there, because there are 'no hotels with free parking'. So we're taking the train. The freaking train. Which means wasting an ENTIRE day getting there and back. WTF? How does she even come up with this?
So I tell her about the train taking too long. And she says we can just leave earlier. I work till 4 AM. Meaning.... I go straight from work, drive over an hour to a train station, to wait an hour, then take an 8 hour ride to Chicago.... holy shit.
So I email her several hotels with 3 miles of central Chicago that have free parking. I tell her we can Uber of Lyft to get where we need to go. Nope she says. That's just not safe. She doesn't trust Uber and Lyft. So she wants to be near the subway now.
Holy fuck. I can't think of something I want to do LESS than take this trip now. We're going to be tied into riding the Subway everywhere, pay an exorbitant hotel fee to be in the 'middle' of the city... it's just fucking insane.
TLDR:
My wife doesn't really want to go on a trip with the kids and is finding the most insane ways of making things difficult.
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