4 vacations cancelled in past two years due to death / illness, 1 interrupted. I'm skipping a funeral to go on vacation
I am going to sound like a bad person but I don't care at this point.
My grandmother who I loved passed away. I'm set to go to Australia on Saturday. I'm not abandoning my trip to go.
In the past two years I had a trip to Japan planned, and my ex-wife's step father died the day before the trip (it was horrible, emotional and would have been a horrible trip to go on in light of that so we stayed).
We moved that trip out 6 months. Ex-wife's grandfather died the day we were suppose to leave so we cancelled it again.
We ditched this Japan vacation and decided to go to London instead about 3 months later. Wife found out she needed a surgery month before vacation, ordered not to travel. London vacation cancelled.
We move the London vacation and find out that my wife would lose her job if she went, because FMLA used up all of her vacation days, so we had to cancel it altogether.
I got to go on a trip to Japan myself a year later. My wife waited until I arrived and told me she was going to divorce me (this was a long time coming, and somewhat expected, but still...) So I flew back home to try and resolve this (she had a clear divorce advantage with me out of the country).
Now I am set to go to Australia on Saturday, and my grandmother passed away unexpectedly (she was in mostly good health for her age) the day before.
I'm going. I feel like AOG's have prevented me from having way too much fun in the past couple of years, and I've never really been able to travel in my whole life because of it (I just got enough money to travel around the time we were suppose to go to Japan). I had my whole 20s where I was too broke to travel, but had nobody dying or getting ill, and now I have money and every time I even think about vacation someone close to me or someone I know dies.
Posted Nov 14, 2019 14:18 by anonymous
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