Trip Apology

[hobie16]

We've got a fat ass drunk up the hill who claims she inherited $5M. She just can't understand why the police won't leave her alone when she's either on one of her drunken scream fests at midnight or when she crashed and totaled her Jag while doing sixty in a thirty mile zone.

[DisneyMom]

Nope! He paid for NEITHER!! We used all of my father's DVC points...... :mad:

I see now on re-reading.....so it sounds like since he wasn't providing it, he wanted to make it seem like it was "less"
I totally don't understand insecure control freaks

[hobie16]

... he wanted to make it seem like it was "less"...

And then he decamped for the Holiday Inn. Talk about less. I guess a million doesn't go as far as it did in the past.

[ynnepztem]

My monster-in-law story is from 1986. We went to SeaWorld in Orlando. At that time, they had a very nice show on the lake. We were finding our seats in Bayside Stadium. The park wasn’t really that crowded so the seat finding wasn’t a problem. We were in the fourth row from the front. My monster-in-law decided she was going to sit in the front row. After all, it was empty. The CM’s came three times and asked her to move because this is where the CM’s in the show would be sitting. She wouldn’t budge. I don’t remember what actually made her move, but she sure did embarrass us all. Just recently my niece told me that Grandma told her about the time at SeaWorld where she acted like a jerk. Niece told me because she had heard this story from me in 2008 when I took her to Orlando.

[Chaka Peachfuzz]

Wow!

That's why I am balking at going on another WDW trip with my extended family. My dad and my sister always have a ton of requests for the room and dad starts doing the passive aggressive crap as soon as he finds out that every one of them was not met. I just walk away when he starts with the "Do you KNOW how much I spent on this trip?" crap. Um yeah, they do know and everyone else paid a great deal of money too.

Our last trip we went alone and it was so, so, so much better! We were pixie dusted with a room upgrade and we were appeciative of it. Everything just went so much better without the demands and negativity!

[Big Wallaby]

"Do you KNOW how much I spent on this trip?"

Anymore, my response is, "How did you pay for it? Cash or credit?"

On that second one... Holy cow. I don't even want to know. If they do the less intelligent thing, make the minimal payments let compound interest apply... After a couple years I bet the number would make you dizzy. So I probably have thought through the answer to THAT question much better than anyone who would be the type to ask it.

Happens when you're studying for your real estate license, start reading about how financing works, and realize just how much people wind up ACTUALLY paying for their house over that 30 year mortgage.

[Chaka Peachfuzz]

Anymore, my response is, "How did you pay for it? Cash or credit?"

I would have been rolling on the floor laughing if someone said that to him!

That just might have knocked the wind out of his sails. My hubby and I just walk away and act like we don't know him.

[BRWombat]

... On that second one... Holy cow. I don't even want to know. If they do the less intelligent thing, make the minimal payments let compound interest apply... After a couple years I bet the number would make you dizzy. ...

Kinda related: Dave Ramsey tweeted yesterday, "Students protesting student loan debt. Note: Dont protest your own stupidity, makes you look exponentially stupid."

[shilohmm]

Happens when you're studying for your real estate license, start reading about how financing works, and realize just how much people wind up ACTUALLY paying for their house over that 30 year mortgage.

You can get little booklets with amortization charts in them pretty easily -- we got one before buying our house at a mall book store back in the day, then made sure we got a loan we can pay off early (where anything you pay above the monthly payment goes directly to the principle). I am no fan of debt but don't regret getting a house on a mortgage... so far.

Kinda related: Dave Ramsey tweeted yesterday, "Students protesting student loan debt. Note: Dont protest your own stupidity, makes you look exponentially stupid."

We have a friend who I know has a high I.Q., but he has gone bankrupt twice, the second time while going for his doctorate, and after a few years of hubby and I puzzling over how they afforded so much "stuff" despite not making any more than we did. Bankruptcy doesn't clear student loans so he's still paying them, of course. His eldest son's SAT scores were so impressive the kid was offered the full ride at Purdue -- but he went to a Texas school that offered a much more moderate scholarship (about half the first year's tuition, memory serves), because he wanted to be close to his girlfriend.

So my guess is that the whole "money makes smart people stupid" thing is genetic. :p:

[hobie16]

but he went to a Texas school that offered a much more moderate scholarship (about half the first year's tuition, memory serves), because he wanted to be close to his girlfriend.

So my guess is that the whole "money makes smart people stupid" thing is genetic. :p:

I believe in your example that love made him stupid. Is he still with her?