Travel Trauma Stories!

[RICHARD]

. They then look at me and start laughing ,as I'm sitting there with my pillow over my face humming to my self. Not a good trip for me that night.

Thank God you weren't driving!!!

[Edwina's Secretary]

Does my 17.5 hour direct flight this summer from Long Beach to NYC count?

[RICHARD]

Does my 17.5 hour direct flight this summer from Long Beach to NYC count?

The judges need more detail in order to award you the "Croix of the Abused Traveler".....



Please?

[Allecto]

Hmm... I've had a 13 hour flight begin with someone passing my seat right before me and vomiting profusely into it . And things went downhill from there. It is a disaster every time I travel, though.

[AlleyCat]

Let's see, the summer I was 18 I went on a final road trip with folks before I was off to college .. We flew from Minnesota to Seattle, WA. Rented a car and drove all around the mountains in WA and OR -- St. Helen, Rainier, Hood, etc. On our 2nd to last day before flying home .. This is how the day went:

We had our suitcases packed and *I* threw them all into the rental car trunk *including* the rental car keys. That was locksmith #1.

In the mountains, Mom is very afraid of heights, so she never got out of the car while Dad and I did to take pictures. About half-way up, Mom DID decide to get out and stretch her legs. Dad left the keys in the ignition, assuming Mom wasn't getting out. Not a problem, but Mom had to lock the doors when stretching her legs? That was locksmith #2. For some reason, it took quite some fiddling with both the passenger and driver locks, but the locksmith finally got the door open.

This is still the same day .. moving on .. We are at the top of the mountain. We stopped at a chalet for lunch. We locked the doors, Dad had the keys firmly tucked in his pocket. We finished lunch, back to the car for the return journey down the mountain. Now, remember, Locksmith #2 had to fiddle quite a bit with the doors for some reason. Unbeknownst to us, the locks were effectively ruined. Here comes Locksmith #3.

(Way up in the mountains, getting a locksmith is no easy task. We had to call the forest ranger not once, but twice .. we spent much of the day with the him, probably much to his amusement!)

We returned the rental car that evening to fly home. Needless to say, the rental car agency was not thrilled to hear that no door locks were functioning, keys or no keys.

[RICHARD]

Here comes Locksmith #3.

NOW THAT'S A HORROR STORY.....so far you are winning!!

[Alysser]

ITALY HAD IT'S HORRIBLE MOMENTS!
Like when we were going to Rome. It was tuesday and we had woken up REALLY early to get dressed,eat,ect. My godfather had taken 36 people to Italy for two weeks so it was hard to drive to Rome. So we rented a bus. We were all waiting at the gate and I was petting the German Shepherd Dog, Bear! AS usual. I LOVED HIM! Anyway, the bus finally arrives. The guy was so stupid. He pulled into a small part of the driveway where CARS could barley turn in and started arguing with my godfather. My godfather fought with him for about 15 mintues. So we couldn't go to ROME! We drove to Piza. Of course, we had trouble parking and then we had 3 fights with people. My dad got pretty rough in one of them. Also, some old friend of my Moms was treatiing me like her daughter. Saying " go get me a coke""Go get my bags!" UGH! It was so annoying. Bear got hurt to. He cut his paw on the glass left by the pool where SOMEONE(I suspect the lady who was treating me like a baby.)left a broken wine glass! She went to the vets. My cousin also got stiches!