Anti bucket list list

[Tambohamilton]

Love going on road trips with my son. He was 4 the last time we made the drive to my dad's house; about 8h/450mi. But he's always been a trooper in the car. Helps that he's super interested in things you might see pretty often as you drive; trucks, occasional train, hills, etc etc. I want to take my 2yo daughter too, but suspect she may change my opinion of road trips with kids Not because she's a girl or anything like that; just because kids as content and easy going as my son are rare.

[ezaircon4jc]

Originally Posted by wtwo3

I absolutely love road trips... used to take them as a kid and would have loved to continue. My wife however has had road trips forever ruined by her parents. Their idea of a road trip was to drive through the night to get to their destination as fast as possible - it was all about the destination and never the journey. So she grew up absolutely hating the journey part of it. If it's any more than a 6 hour drive she needs to fly. It's a sad sad reality...

When our daughter was going to GCU we would make the trip to PHX and back the same day. It was around 14 hours, depending on how long we stayed there.

[wtwo3]

Originally Posted by rebekahb

I can’t wait to hear about the 10k Disney trip

Disney is already killing me...

I'm planning to do PCD to pick up my new car. They gave a tentative date for Jan 19th. Problem is I booked Disney on Ice tickets for the 20th. I could sell the tickets and book for a later date but none of the later dates that we're available have seats as good as the ones I already booked (at least for a reasonable price). So now I'm contemplating delaying my car pickup to mid February

[ASAP]

Originally Posted by wtwo3

Disney is already killing me...

I'm planning to do PCD to pick up my new car. They gave a tentative date for Jan 19th. Problem is I booked Disney on Ice tickets for the 20th. I could sell the tickets and book for a later date but none of the later dates that we're available have seats as good as the ones I already booked (at least for a reasonable price). So now I'm contemplating delaying my car pickup to mid February

Priorities all wrong

[wtwo3]

Originally Posted by ASAP

Priorities all wrong

That's what I'm saying... then my wife gives me the whole... our daughter's been looking forward to this for months!

I reply with, I've been looking forward to this car for over a year! Somehow that doesn't get me any sympathy points.

[Tommy-G]

I have to say, just delay the car

[Esteban]

Kids and wife win over the car. It's just the sad truth.

[ASAP]

Originally Posted by Tommy-G

I have to say, just delay the car

Originally Posted by Esteban

Kids and wife win over the car. It's just the sad truth.

in almost all cases, I would agree but think about the reality of this situation... Disney on Ice is still available on many dates...

this is a car someone has waited for about a year for with major supply chain shortages and global difficulties all while spending almost 100k on it...

I think Disney could wait tbh... this is a MAJOR purchase

[rebekahb]

It’s time to change your username to DeathbyDisney.

My friend loves Disney and is obsessed. She’s turning 60 next year but couldn’t wait another year to celebrate so in Jan she’s doing a big girls trip to Disney. I was on board. The whole support your friend thing. I then looked at the cost. $2000 for tickets and room for 5 nights. Not a drop of food or alcohol or matching shirts and ears (couldn’t pay me to wear that). Speaking of wtwo3 do y’all have your matching shirts and ears made yet ? Anyway, I hate Disney. Don’t like lines and the gouging. I do think what they create is neat and the engineering behind everything is fascinating. That’s not enough for me to justify that cost. The main reason is sick parents.

Tommy-G the whole drive to Key West changing your life. Eh, don’t see that happening. It reminds me so much of driving to Grand Isle but the water is prettier. If you get stuck behind a caravan of RV’s or trucks it’s f’ing miserable. I live in NOLA and so much of Key West reminds me of that so that might be why I was not very impressed. Also, we’ve been fortunate to travel so many places and I would rather spend that money somewhere else I enjoyed more.

[Esteban]

Originally Posted by ASAP

in almost all cases, I would agree but think about the reality of this situation... Disney on Ice is still available on many dates...

this is a car someone has waited for about a year for with major supply chain shortages and global difficulties all while spending almost 100k on it...

I think Disney could wait tbh... this is a MAJOR purchase

I agree with you, and I was just making a joke. I think wtwo3 should get his car and his wife should give in this time. Marriage is give and take if it's going to work and this is important to him.

[CTinline-six]

Originally Posted by ASAP

in almost all cases, I would agree but think about the reality of this situation... Disney on Ice is still available on many dates...

this is a car someone has waited for about a year for with major supply chain shortages and global difficulties all while spending almost 100k on it...

I think Disney could wait tbh... this is a MAJOR purchase

Delaying the car will have fewer long-term consequences.

[wtwo3]

Originally Posted by rebekahb

Speaking of wtwo3 do y’all have your matching shirts and ears made yet ? .

[wtwo3]

Originally Posted by ASAP

in almost all cases, I would agree but think about the reality of this situation... Disney on Ice is still available on many dates...

this is a car someone has waited for about a year for with major supply chain shortages and global difficulties all while spending almost 100k on it...

I think Disney could wait tbh... this is a MAJOR purchase

Originally Posted by Esteban

I agree with you, and I was just making a joke. I think wtwo3 should get his car and his wife should give in this time. Marriage is give and take if it's going to work and this is important to him.

Originally Posted by CTinline-six

Delaying the car will have fewer long-term consequences.

The silver lining is the delay shouldn't be too terrible... we've got an all-inclusive trip to the Dominican coming up end of January/1st week of February, so that'll help keep my mind off the car for a bit.

[FullFatDoom]

Heres mine:

China: Once is absolutely plenty. Unfortunately I had to go a second time for work.

New Caledonia: just not as great as people make it sound.

[Alfisti]

Originally Posted by Esteban

I agree with you, and I was just making a joke. I think wtwo3 should get his car and his wife should give in this time. Marriage is give and take if it's going to work and this is important to him.

Reality is, no one really cares about men. men are now expected to have come full circle from two generations ago and put kids and wife first at all times. And they wonder why western middle aged men are killing themselves at an absolutely crazy rate.

Sometimes we need to be a bit selfish or you spend your entire life saving fro your kids futures where in reality, they already have everything they need.

Well that and Disney was bad fucking idea to begin with and i said so in the thread on it.

[Alfisti]

Originally Posted by dradernh

I had the same experience with the exception that after a couple of bunny slope runs, someone took me halfway to the top and sent me down on my own.

Suffice to say, that didn't work out too well. As always, however, YMMV.

Picture it, Australian Ski fields (there's a small sliver of alpine areas back home) , 1991. I am 15 and we go on a school trip there. I am from the outer suburbs of Sydney, never seen snow, never seen a sub 10 degree celcius day, it can reach 110 farenheight in summer....... i am not accustomed to cold. I'm a strapping lad, big, strong, fit, maybe 6ft, 180 lbs.

No instruction, just a set of skis and a lift pass. I go to the top and figure, well, gravity does the rest right? I push off and i am at warp speed in seconds, I am absolutely HOWLING down that hill, arrow straight, if i'd have hit a bump i'd have landed in NZ.

I look ahead, no idea how to stop, too scared to roll. I see an instructor skiing backwards, like sideways across the mountain. I absolutely COLLECT this mother fucker, like a god damn plane crash. I don't have a mark on me, he is screaming like a banshee. A guy comes up to me and says it may be best if i vanish so i bugger off and in the distance I hear ambulance sounds. I kept my head low all week, stuck to the bunny hills. never returned.

[Alfisti]

So to the topic at hand, i will try and stick to the spirit of the OP and not just list things I hate. Let's face it, if i did that i'd be here all day right. So here are a few that I looked forward to and people say is great but when i tried I just......blehhhhh.

Live Shows:
As in theatre. Tried two, both bored me to tears and felt silly, like borderline childish. Not for me.

Miami:
Fuck me this was a shit place. Now, i know it's not really me right, it's really a nightlife kind of place, everyone showing off etc. OK fine, but it was just absolutely DIRE. No landmarks, no central gathering space, no public square, no nothing. The promenade in front of all the hotels was nice but literally that was it. Exceedingly expensive and boring. Hated it.

Strip Joints
Love me ladies like any red blooded fella but could this be any less exciting? They're all so fucking sad. Hookers are legal back home so you get harassed a lot for a good time but it's just kinda...i dunno...........a wet t-shirt competition is more fun so to speak.

Mercedes
Just never seemed aspirational to me like it seems to be to so many people. Each to his own but i could pass on all of them tbh.

[wtwo3]

Originally Posted by Alfisti

Reality is, no one really cares about men. men are now expected to have come full circle from two generations ago and put kids and wife first at all times. And they wonder why western middle aged men are killing themselves at an absolutely crazy rate.

Sometimes we need to be a bit selfish or you spend your entire life saving fro your kids futures where in reality, they already have everything they need.

Well that and Disney was bad fucking idea to begin with and i said so in the thread on it.

I 100% agree here.

But to be fair (and set aside the tongue in cheek act), my wife was supportive of selling the tickets and looking for a later date - she was helping me look. It's just that none of the dates we'd be available to take our daughter to see it had seats nearly as good as the ones I originally booked. So I myself would feel a bit guilty if I sacrificed the seats just to get my car a few weeks earlier.

That being said, I consider myself a pragmatic person. I'm not so stubborn that i stick to some principles just for the sake of principles. It's all about assessing the situation and being flexible. If I find myself in a situation where I can't move PCD out by a few weeks and the 19th is the only date available, then I'll gladly sacrifice the Disney seats for slightly worse ones on a later date and would hope my wife understands. The reverse also holds true. If PCD can be moved a few weeks later without trouble, I'm ok doing that to preserve the seats I originally booked.

[wtwo3]

The main takeaway here is that Disney ruins things in multiple ways... even a simple 2 hour live show.

[dradernh]

Originally Posted by Alfisti

No instruction, just a set of skis and a lift pass. I go to the top and figure, well, gravity does the rest right? I push off and i am at warp speed in seconds, I am absolutely HOWLING down that hill, arrow straight, if i'd have hit a bump i'd have landed in NZ.

I look ahead, no idea how to stop, too scared to roll. I see an instructor skiing backwards, like sideways across the mountain. I absolutely COLLECT this mother fucker, like a god damn plane crash. I don't have a mark on me, he is screaming like a banshee.

That was pretty much my incident: instantly going 100 mph, no control even though I'm staying up on the skis, choice between the trees or the girl cruising across the slope. I chose the girl.

There I am, with my legs so tangled-up with my skis that it took me 10 minutes to get them undone, with the girl standing over me screaming "Why didn't you yell!?!" Umm...'cause hitting you probably saved my life? No, 'cause shit was going so fast I didn't have time to think beyond 'don't aim for the trees'. Like I could influence the direction I was traveling. What a cluster**** that one was.

I walked down to the bottom of the slope and was done with skiing. That sport has too much overhead for me.

[dreamingat30fps]

Originally Posted by Tommy-G

Dont tell me that. The Keys are on my bucket list. I have this grand vision of driving top down across the keys to the end and it being this magical life changing drive.

Pffft its a horrible drive. At least the last time I was down there yeaaaars ago. One lane, slow ass fuck speed limit. I remember the last time I went down there. Me and the gf just decided fuck it lets go to the keys (we lived in Miami at the time). Packed some stuff and just started driving. I remember it was night time on the way down and there was no one on the road. Some asshole cop stopped me and gave me a speeding ticket. I say asshole because I clearly remember the guy trying to argue with me saying I had an attitude or something. Anyone who knows me would know that's total bs. I never said a word to this guy other than maybe answering anything he may of asked. Attitude? No way. Anyways was a pita to deal with since none of the ticket lawyers wanted to deal with in a ticket in that county. (don't remember what ended up happening).

We then get to the keys and could not find a single fucking hotel with availability. We then remember it was some kind of holiday. Long story short, drove all the way to the keys and back home that same night and got a ticket for my troubles. Don't think I've ever been back.

Originally Posted by Alfisti

Miami:
Fuck me this was a shit place. Now, i know it's not really me right, it's really a nightlife kind of place, everyone showing off etc. OK fine, but it was just absolutely DIRE. No landmarks, no central gathering space, no public square, no nothing. The promenade in front of all the hotels was nice but literally that was it. Exceedingly expensive and boring. Hated it.

I could of told you that! I lived in Miami Beach for a few years and was born and spent most of my life in Miami. What a horrible shithole. I honestly can't wrap my brain around why people like it. Now given I don't like most cities, but Miami IMO has none of the benefits of big cities but all of the downside and more. Plus sooo many of the people are just fake garbage people. Unfortunately my mom still lives in Miami Beach (its own type of hell) so I'm forced to go down there sometimes. However if/when she moves. I will never go back!

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