The best laid plans
So. It's possible for a person (who may or may not be male) to book an entire holiday (because they said 'I will be in charge of the holiday') and yet fail to account for things like travel time and annual leave.
Say, for eaxmple, you book 4 nights at a resort that is a 35 hour drive away (and you plan, initially to actually drive there) then does it not follow that you would also allow for 3 days either side of your booking to travel?
Of course if you contemplate flying then that doesn't matter but the point here is that when it was booked driving was the plan and there was a conversation had about driving up and stopping along the way to visit fmaily and the like.
And yet ... it's apparently possible to get three weeks out from it, realise that there is no possible way to book a flight since you are not a millionaire and suddenly figure out that you have UNIVERSITY COURSES the ENTIRE week leading up to the reservation.
Yes. I understand it was to be flying.
But it wasn't when it was booked. At that point we were talking fun road trip.
Nevertheless ...
It's possible to be 5 days out from departure and go 'so ... I have to be back at work on the 27th - when is it we are leaving again?'
So apparently getting home on the 29th doesn't work for him. Even though that's what the story was when he booked it. And that's what I have been saying for the past three weeks.
So we have a communication problem. No. You have a listening problem.
If I had booked this without his input I could understand this complete and utter cock-up.
BUT HE BOOKED IT!
He wanted to be in charge of a fancy holiday and choose a resort and everything. And we have conversations about the date and getting there and which cabin to choose and so forth. Apparently we didn't communicate and we didn't do it together.
Again. He said he would be in charge of it. And frankly I welcomed this because I hate micromanaging everything. I looked forward to not having to plan every last detail and leaving it in the capable hands of someone else.
Suffice to say we are no longer travelling to Queensland this Easter. And I am planning the alternate plan of outback South Australia. Which he "really liked because you know .. we did this together." In essence this means that he dialed the phone until he found somewhere with a vacancy for the Easter weekend (only four days from said busiest weekend of the year) and then he handed the phone to me so that I could organise it.
"I'll just put you onto my wife."
Yeah because you don't seem to have a freaking clue.
Perhaps I sound a little bitter and annoyed (because I am) but i honestly thought I could leave the organisation of such an event to him but the part I hate most is that I honestly, truly beleive it was a stuff up by him and I'm being made to feel like 'we just don't communicate properly'.
I communicate just fine - he just doesn't hear anything I say, and the infuriating thing is that it always sounds like he *is* on the same page.
Well we're still holidaying it'll just be ... different.
Say, for eaxmple, you book 4 nights at a resort that is a 35 hour drive away (and you plan, initially to actually drive there) then does it not follow that you would also allow for 3 days either side of your booking to travel?
Of course if you contemplate flying then that doesn't matter but the point here is that when it was booked driving was the plan and there was a conversation had about driving up and stopping along the way to visit fmaily and the like.
And yet ... it's apparently possible to get three weeks out from it, realise that there is no possible way to book a flight since you are not a millionaire and suddenly figure out that you have UNIVERSITY COURSES the ENTIRE week leading up to the reservation.
Yes. I understand it was to be flying.
But it wasn't when it was booked. At that point we were talking fun road trip.
Nevertheless ...
It's possible to be 5 days out from departure and go 'so ... I have to be back at work on the 27th - when is it we are leaving again?'
So apparently getting home on the 29th doesn't work for him. Even though that's what the story was when he booked it. And that's what I have been saying for the past three weeks.
So we have a communication problem. No. You have a listening problem.
If I had booked this without his input I could understand this complete and utter cock-up.
BUT HE BOOKED IT!
He wanted to be in charge of a fancy holiday and choose a resort and everything. And we have conversations about the date and getting there and which cabin to choose and so forth. Apparently we didn't communicate and we didn't do it together.
Again. He said he would be in charge of it. And frankly I welcomed this because I hate micromanaging everything. I looked forward to not having to plan every last detail and leaving it in the capable hands of someone else.
Suffice to say we are no longer travelling to Queensland this Easter. And I am planning the alternate plan of outback South Australia. Which he "really liked because you know .. we did this together." In essence this means that he dialed the phone until he found somewhere with a vacancy for the Easter weekend (only four days from said busiest weekend of the year) and then he handed the phone to me so that I could organise it.
"I'll just put you onto my wife."
Yeah because you don't seem to have a freaking clue.
Perhaps I sound a little bitter and annoyed (because I am) but i honestly thought I could leave the organisation of such an event to him but the part I hate most is that I honestly, truly beleive it was a stuff up by him and I'm being made to feel like 'we just don't communicate properly'.
I communicate just fine - he just doesn't hear anything I say, and the infuriating thing is that it always sounds like he *is* on the same page.
Well we're still holidaying it'll just be ... different.