Should I back out of the road trip?
January 1st, 2009
Ok so here’s the basics. I’m a 20 year old student who lives in MN. My mom’s family is from MA. She plans to go back there this weekend for a 90th birthday party. Here’s the kicker. My mother is a fan of driving 22 hours straight through blasting 50 books on tape all the way. No peace and quiet! She won’t let anybody drive either. She promised she would when I joined her on the trip last year but she changed her mind. Her car charger is dead which means no way to charge the DVD player so that dies after about 3 hours (less than 1/7th of the trip!).
She was to fly this year because she had credit with the airline but they screwed up her booking and wanted to charge her like $375 EXTRA dollars, not to mention the $200 a rental car would cost her. I said why don’t I come along if you promise to let me drive and I’ll chip in a couple hundred. That compared with what she would have spent on rental cars etc… is less than what the no good airline would be charging. Still though, she refuses to take my car so that I can have the electronics of music and movies, she won’t have quiet, even when I beg because my head is bursting, and I think that this year too she’ll go back on her word to let me drive, as she did in 07. Her ‘no break’ method of travel walking to and from the toilet is her version of exercising and ‘moving around’. Plus she thinks she may just get there by Friday, sleep, go to the b-day party Saturday, leave again Sunday, arrive home Monday, sleep, and have Tuesday off. I can’t even smell the inside of her car without bad memories. Oh yeah, and I’m running low on my anti-depressants. So should I give her the $200 bucks I promised and let her make a simple drive back in her typical style, or go with her?
This sounds terrible. If she reversed her decision last time, chances are she’ll do it again. Don’t go! Don’t go! Don’t go! And if you don’t go, you don’t owe her anything. I have observed that people who are possessive about driving are almost always controlling people. If you decide to go, I’ll send you some pins to stick in your eyes.
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This sounds terrible. If she reversed her decision last time, chances are she’ll do it again. Don’t go! Don’t go! Don’t go! And if you don’t go, you don’t owe her anything. I have observed that people who are possessive about driving are almost always controlling people. If you decide to go, I’ll send you some pins to stick in your eyes.
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Go with her and suck it up for her sake… she probably isn’t 35 yrs old with huge amounts of energy and perfect health! Why don’t you be a sport and keep her company! If she can do it.. you can do it! Also… I understand the long trips.. I go back and forth from MI to MO… when me and my niece and nephews travel… we play with this huge book from Borders full of topics to talk about and games to play on the road… and Ideas about staying awake and such! Your 20 now.. right? Act like it… be a man! Don’t let your beautiful Mother travel alone or even drive all that by herself… insist half way through that your driving… or trick her when she goes to the bathroom and take her spot…. be creative kid!
Have fun and enjoy the time you have with your mother… Were not getting any younger!
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really? You can’t make this decision on your own?
My answer:
I couldn’t care less so it’s random… GO!
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