Poll of the Day > Koga's second beach trip.

(+) Yeah! (+)

I'm at work now, and as soon as I leave in the morning it's a 5 hour trip to the coast where I'll be for 3 days.

Some relatives hijacked it though. Literally invited themselves along and changed all of our plans to ones that suited them instead. We're not even going to be in the same state we originally planned. But it still looks like it'll be fun.

bro how do you let your family push you around so much lol

how i imagine op: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/7/5/7/AAXuu6AAE0iN.jpg

DirtBasedSoap posted...

bro how do you let your family push you around so much lol

I've had exactly 0 input on any of the decisions on this trip. I'm just glad to get a trip.

DirtBasedSoap posted...

how i imagine op: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/7/5/7/AAXuu6AAE0iN.jpg

Basically.

KogaSteelfang posted...

relatives hijacked it

KogaSteelfang posted...

invited themselves along and changed all of our plans to ones that suited them instead

KogaSteelfang posted...

it still looks like it'll be fun

These relatives sound horrible, and I sort of wish you'd stay away from them for your own sake. I seriously doubt familial abuse can be fun in any capacity, no matter the locale.

EclairReturns posted...

These relatives sound horrible, and I sort of wish you'd stay away from them for your own sake. I seriously doubt familial abuse can be fun in any capacity, no matter the locale.

These relatives aren't abusive. It's my uncle, who is the only one of my dad's family to turn out ok. His girlfriend is super rich but controlling since she always just gets what she wants.

At first she just wanted to get a room near us and visit a bit, which would've been ok. But then she learned where we were going and kind of just decided that wasn't good enough.

Personally, I'm annoyed that they took over, but I'm just happy to be going somewhere. A beach is a beach to me, plus she rented us a better place to stay than we had before and is paying half. So our half is basically what we intended to spend on a room anyway.

I just hope they don't want to spend a lot of time together. It's ok if we're doing something together, but in the evenings they want to play card games and such, and I'm not really down for that.

Just met up with the family, heading out now. Will post pictures of stuff later.

KogaSteelfang posted...

Will post pictures of stuff later.

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"Sorry but this one's just going to be us, maybe some other time! Let's go to X next year."

Probably too late now. Seems like they care about you though.

Yellow posted...

"Sorry but this one's just going to be us, maybe some other time! Let's go to X next year."

Probably too late now. Seems like they care about you though.

Yeah, literally following them on the interstate right now.

I'd have arranged to do something myself and not tell them. Still I hope you enjoy it man.

Literally just now arrived. Long trip.

Outer Banks?

Cacciato posted...

Outer Banks?

That's one mom wanted to visit, but bag, it's oak Island.

https://imgur.com/a/Q0xniLj
https://imgur.com/a/kXNTV4M
https://imgur.com/a/bM7bBAm
https://imgur.com/a/u1okQ68
Some pics. Haven't really seen it done much. Just kind of hung out on the beach and the pool. So not many interesting photos to post at the moment. I think we're going to a zoo tomorrow so maybe that'll change then.

Anyway, some photos of the foggy mountains yesterday morning, a big valley we passed, the pond next to our place, and the turtles that surfaced wanting us to feed them.

Unfortunately, if we throw anything down the seagulls rush in and grab it before the turtles can.

KogaSteelfang posted...

That's one mom wanted to visit, but bag, it's oak Island.

Oh damn, you went a lot further south.

Cacciato posted...

Oh damn, you went a lot further south.

Wasn't our idea. Though, it was actually a bit shorter of a trip to get there than Virginia Beach last year.

Also, I know it was already obvious... but I don't want to spend extended periods of time with these people. They're insufferable. Mom is good, if it was just the 2 of us it would've been fantastic. But the other 4 people are all arrogant, loudmouth, know-it-alls who are never wrong and are all trying to outdo everyone else. It was absolutely ridiculous.

Like, an example. My uncle's gf lives collecting sea shells. That's all she did the entire time, and she asked us to bring her any neat ones from the water if we find them. So my 10 year old cousin was super excited and when he'd find one he'd run it up to her. How did she respond? "What's that? You think that looks like something I would want? Don't you know what a full shell looks like? This is trash, no one would want that." Then she threw it back in the water. I mean, yeah, it was a broken shell, but he thought it was neat so he brought it to her and she calls it trash and throws it away. The least she could've done was thank him and then toss it away after when he's back in the water, at least explain you want complete shells rather than just calling it trash to his face.

Also, she's dumb. There were weird little palm trees, and one had clusters of fruit on it. I pointed it out and jokingly said "I love coconut grapes." And she immediately ran over and started grabbing them off the ground and was ready to eat it. I stopped her and said "Wait, those aren't really grapes, don't eat it! I have no idea what that really is, I was joking." And she hits me with a "looks like a grape, so it can't be poisonous." Then she refuses to believe that it's possibly toxic because it "looks good." Then she ate it... right off the ground. Then my uncle was searching up poison control in case she got sick. Turns out she was fine, but why do something so stupid? Then we went to the zoo today and they had a desert section full of cactuses. One had prickly pears on it, and her mouth was watering for them. She kept saying she wanted to eat one, so I asked if she's tried one before and she took that as confirmation that they're edible. She ran over and was plucking them off the cactus and the thorns in her fingers, but she was determined to get done to eat. Then we some weird fruit in another tree at another exhibit and she asked me if it was edible. I told her it looked toxic, hoping to discourage her. Then later she showed me that she a pocket full and was going to eat them too. I told her it's not a good idea, but she said I'd hear if she died and if I didn't hear that then it's fine. Mom said she was like that anytime they went out, just grabbing anything and trying to eat it. Then she called us dumb for trying to Google it rather than just eating it to see if we get sick. >_>

It was a stressful weekend.