Bad Vacation Stories

[icarusfall]

So, something exciting finally happened to me in England; I got into a car accident!

We had just pulled out of a petrol station, and my friend Jonny was driving us to the Man-U v Arsenal match. I was passed some rather dodgy 'literature' know as the "Sunday Sport", which is just soft-core porn, so I hadn't put my seat belt on yet. Jonny gets going about 50 and the car in front of him slams on their brakes. Now, I'm not gonna lie, Jonny might have been a little distracted by said newspaper, but did manage to notice this, and put the brakes on hard. We hit the other car doing about 30-35 mph. Since I didn't have my belt on, I went a little airborne and the top of my head slammed into his wind shield making one of those spiderwebs about 2 feet in diameter. I also managed to leave a nice chunk of my arm on the fabric of the armrest from what amounts to basically rug-burn. Atlas was sitting in the back and escaped the clutches of doom without a scratch, as did Jonny. His car however has a really fucked up front end, and that sucks the big dick. The aftermath was a bit of a concussion, and a lot of oozing from by arm, but nothing too interesting. Although watching me stare at grass for half an hour from confusion must have been amusing to our friends when we finally did get to the pub for the match...

The moral of the story: Always wear your seat belt. Even if someone does distract you with soft-core porn.

Anyone else have any bad vacation experiences?

[GohanX]

Oh boy, I have a LOT of bad vacation experiences.

On one, we were heading for the beach after my high school graduation. It's a well known fact that if you live anywhere near the NC/SC area, the one place to be after graduation is MYRTLE BEACH! Whoo.

So anyway, we actually got a house that was halfway between Myrtle Beach and Wilmington, so we could drive to either. Halfway through the week, we stop by the Fuddruckers in Wilmington, where I proceed to have the best tasting hamburger in my life. While we are there, one of our buds leaves his wallet on one of the arcade machines, which is then stolen my one of the employees (there were no other customers there) Brian was pissed and bummed out, but we all pitched in to give him more cash for the rest of the trip. After we got home, my stomach didn't feel too well... I had fucking food poisoning! I was in bed for the next 3 or 4 days of the vacation...

Another year, some time later, some buds plan a trip to Harkers Island, which is a tiny fishing town. I don't care for fishing, but sailing and relaxing fit the bill since I was working like 50 hour weeks back then. My car had always given me shit, so my buds fixed EVERYTHING on it before the trip so I could make it. That was nice of them.

They forgot to check one thing...something that I am told almost NEVER is empty on a manual transmission car-the transmission fluid.

Well, we were almost there, and we noticed that the transmission was leaking fluid badly. There really wasn't a damn thing we could do about it either, so we just kept going. A mile down the road, something that sounded like my engine falling out of my car and hitting the pavement happened and my car was now dead.

And I had to pay $150 to get it towed to the beach place, and then $70 to get it towed back home.

Last year, it rained the whole time I was at the beach. Compared to my earlier trips, that was fine with me, I spent all week in a jacuzzi.

*edit*

I almost forgot, there is an even WORSE vacation, I may post it later.

[Kenshin]

My family just narrowly escaped being stuck on an island during Hurricane Emily. By minutes. (CBS Morning News had interviewed us "Crazy Canadians" live, minutes before.)

It woulda been a disaster story, if we hadn't gotten to the bridge before it was blocked-off.

[bandit]

hmmm..my parents experienced their first earthquake when they went upstate NY for my sisters orientation for the college. My dad thought it was my mom banging the bathroom wall of the hotel..and my mom thought it was the people in the next room banging on the wall when she was taking a shower..next thing you know it..stuff was falling. I wasnt there..I was working and had school

Another was when I went to China for about 3 weeks. For some apparent reason, my leg started to come out with a rash and my skin started to show some bubbles...it was itchy. I couldnt wear shorts nor shoes, so I was stuck with lotion, slippers and shorts, everywhere I went. I would never like to feel that again.

[Josh]

Last time I was in Reno, I shot a man... just to watch him die.

[cka]

Every day is a vacation for me!

[Atlas]

That crash that icarus was talking about was absolutely NO fun.
I think my worst vacation was when I was taken to Africa so my dad could tell me my BITCH of a step-mum was pregnant. He had to take me to another country to tell me b/c he was that afraid of a 9 year olds reaction!?!?!

[Razor Ramon]

Every day is a vacation for me!

Life unemployed sounds like fun.

[Nikorasu]

The moral of this story? Never touch the Sunday Sport. It's porno for people too short to reach for the top shelf. Or don;t have internet access.

Man, sorry to hear about your human-torpedo experience Icarus.

"something exciting finally happened to me in England"

Going that well is it?

[Almaci]

This story takes place after E3 99.
Back then security at US airports REALLY sucked and I still cant believe everything turned out ok in the end.
What happened was that I visited some friends in Cedar Rapids Iowa after E3.
I called in for a flight from Moline Iowa to NYc where my plane back to Belgium would leave the day after, I tought the plane left at 6am but it actually left at 6pm.
So anyways we got up at 3.30am to leave Cedar Rapids for Moline(just over an houres drive), I was dropped off and said goodbye to the Kemps family and they left as I wanted to check in.
I noticed the counter wasnt open yet and then it dawned to me that I mistook am for pm(over here we dont use that and instead use 24 houres so 1pm is 13h).
When the counter finally opened houres later another problem arose.
I forgot my passport back in Cedar and had to pay for my airfare with Visa.
No photo ID on me and I couldnt leave the country or board a plane or use my International gold card witouth my International passport.
I asked the people at the counter to accept my payment and let me on the plane anyway and much to my surprise they didnt have a problem with that, I also left my bags with the counter people and went to look for a phonebooth and visited a closeby mall(the Southpark mall hahaha) while waiting for my 6pm flight.
I called the Kemps family and told em the last place I remember having seen my passport was at a restroom in a Cedar Rapids mall so they went looking for it and shipped it next day before noon to NCS in New York.
I called Peter Mui from NCS to notify him about it(at that point I didnt have a hotel to stay at yet so I had no other addres to send it to).
I arrived in NYc late in the evening and slept, contacted Peter Mui in the morning and nothing had arrived.
He then informed me that if the postal services dont manage to deliver a parcel before noon they keep it and deliver it the next day before noon.
Wich would mean I was screwed becouse my plane to Belgium left the same day at 6pm.
Peter left NCS around noon and started driving to all post centers that he knew of in search of the parcel containing my passport, he told me not to worry and have some fun in Chinatown and meet him at his place in Chinatown around 3.30pm.
And yes around 3.30 he arrived there with my passport and a black limo also arrived, he gave me my passport and said the limo is waiting you will have to hurry up, I thanked him profoundly(had an extremely stressfull 36 houres behind me at that point) stepped in and we arrived at Newark in time for my flight, I wanted to pay the driver but apparently Peter had already taken care of that.

So I payed for an airline ticket with an International Visa card witouth any form of ID, left my bags at the airport with the airline company and left the airport totally unchecked, boarded the plane witouth any checkups whatsoever and did the same at my hotel at La Guardia.
I needed to in order to catch my plane back to Belgium but couldnt believe that in the end everything turned out the way it did, I was thinking to myself this is insane, this cant be true, anyone could just do whatever they please on these flights.
After that with any national US flight ive felt affraid becouse of the extremely lax security, strangely enough after 9/11 ive felt much safer to fly inside the US.