I just need to rant, since I can't concentrate on work anyway.
DBF is sort of the black sheep in his family, since they are dedicated Lutherans and boy, is he not. On the surface, they are polite, friendly and very welcoming to me. Underneath, they don't understand DBF, don't understand our lifestyle choices and would rather that he'd found a nice Lutheran girl who would bring him back to the fold and make grandchildren.
Three times in the last few years, they've said that they want to take us and his sister on a "family trip." Gah - two days at Christmas stretches my tolerance. Happily, they canceled the first two, but number three is actually happening. In February. We are going to Florida, to do the whole Walt Disney World thing. I've never been and I wish I was looking forward to it, but I feel like I'm being forced to waste my precious vacation time.
One of the things that really kills me is that they are so cheap but they are really bad at saving money. Example 1: they bought the airline tickets in October. So we leave home at some stupid early time on a United flight and have a half hour to change planes in Minneapolis. Whereas, if they'd waited, we could have flown direct on WestJet for $250 less.
And for this trip that "they are taking us on", we keep having to pay for things. I just found out that we are contributing to the rental vehicle. Our share (1/8) is $250 - that they need by the end of the week. (They are there for a month. So I just did a quick search and the average to rent a minivan for a month was about $1200. Are they getting a stretch limo?) I wouldn't mind so much if this had been a condition from the start, but they don't plan that well - so new things keep popping up.
The other thing that pisses me off is that they've rented a house in a gated community close to Disney World. Which is a great idea, in theory. In practice, they got a three bedroom house with one queen bed and two sets of singles. Honestly, we've been together for five years and own a house - do they really think we keep separate beds just because we aren't married? We share a bed when we stay at their house!
At Christmas, they told us that since we're only there for a week, we get to plan the activities and they'll do whatever we want. I have the distinct impression that scheduling apart time won't go over well.
The thought of a whole week spent with their pettiness, hypocrisy and holier-than-thou attitude is making me really cranky. All I can think is that there are bunches of alligators and surely by now at least some of them have developed a taste for human?
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