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Hello the other side

Permanent Linkby Hallusinating on Sat Dec 31, 2011 9:57 pm

I am home from an agonising trip that took me to the other side for some seconds...
First i had to get up in the middle of the night to catch a plane, i had to take my luggage on a trolley to get it to the bus station where i caught my bus for the airport. In the middle of the night i met a drunk guy asking me for the way to somewhere and then there was a lot of ice :twisted:

By the time i had climbed all the up hills to the station with the luggage, i was exhausted.
Why is it always stress travelling????

Before i went i tried to print out my ticket, finding out that since i had helped this women by printing 50 pages(she never used!?) i was out of black toner in my printer :twisted:
So i had to copy my booking and print it out in blue instead..
then when i got to the airport they told me that i had printed out a reservation and not the ticket, thankfully i still got my boarding pass(since i had the ticket number and it was already paid for).

Over 5 hours in a plane with tired people, and then one hour in a bus.

Finally in the hotel and i can put my luggage down..

I shared a room with a woman who sometimes acted a bit strange....
first she wore a robe that she didn`t close and she didn`t have any clothes on underneath it, so it made me feel a bit like i was in a brothel where she was just wondering around waiting for her next customer..

Despite her coming of age she did not see the reservation in my eyes.

Then on my final day with her she came up with something i didn`t really want to see...puke, yes she puked all over the balcony in the middle of one of her complaining sentences about her ex husband(oh yes she told me all about him while i was sharing bedroom with her).

Its cheaper to travel when you can share a room with somebody (not bed, for all you perverts who were thinking that).
Yet sharing has got its ups and downs.

Mostly she was a friendly woman, but i was not too pleased when she wanted me to wash up her puke while she was drinking champagne.

You meet all kinds of people when you are on the move and living with others, it makes it a little bit more exciting but sometimes it can be a little bit stressful and i can understand why people want to have their own bedroom.

Specially over the christmas holidays when so many become a little depressed and lonely and all you want to do is relax, but instead you listen to long stories (told in a language you can hardly understand).

Also she was partly deaf so this made our conversations a bit amputated.

I hope my next holiday is more relaxing as this one sucked big time.
I came home and got the worse flu i have ever had( i think we were food poisoned on our last day there???). The stress and anguish of being in the same hotel room with this woman got my best sides..
i am one that usually follows the rules by the book, she is more a "slacker" and likes to bend the rules to her own advantage. For example, she wanted to try and eat free breakfeast buffet in the hotel restaurant because she assumed that it was pre paid.

She also tried to get me to join a trip up in the mountains that only cost 10 €, in the pamplet it said they had some product advertisement.
When i came to the bus it turned out that you had to listen to advertisement for one and a half hour before the trip.
I turned around and got out of the bus.

Yes it was friendly of her to ask..and so i did say, but as a former interviewer for a firm that collects information, i am sick of promotions and advertisements, i told her that but i think she still was pissed off that i had cancelled it.

The last but not least thing on the list was the strict rule in the hotel about smoking....
we were not allowed to smoke anywhere on the hotels property, that included the balcony to the rooms and outside of the rooms :evil:

We had to go outside of the hotel to have a smoke.

The woman i shared room with also liked to have smoke now and again, so we sat on the balcony(where nobody could see us anyways but still i know its wrong to break the rules, but i do think its a little bit to strict there! Even restaurants lets you smoke outside on their properties, and we have paid more for that room then a meal).

If she hadn`t been there i probably wouldn`t have smoked outside on the balcony, but since she was there i felt it was wrong not to. Partly because i didn`t really know how to justify their strict rule(we were outside!???), and partly because i knew she was older and maybe not so in tuned on walking one stair up to have a smoke outside the hotel?). Also she was a bit stubborn.

Not blaming her for it, just saying that naturally it becomes a sort of push when she asks me to sit down with her...

Being this anguish thing that i am, i many times wondered what could happen if they came inside the hotel room while we were smoking on the balcony??
They probably only would tell us off a little bit maybe, but what an embarrassment that would have been?? Two elder people sitting there acting like little children...

So most of my holiday went away on justifying why it was ok for me to smoke on that balcony...not exactly a relaxing holiday...

Other people are more relaxed about things like this, so why do i get so much anxiety?
I think its because i grew up with a strict stepfather.
Its good to follow the rules and i could have gone outside while she was smoking on the balcony, but its not so easy to refuse it when she is sitting right in front of me.

We only had one room and i think sitting on that balcony gave us both a rest from being inside the room all the time...also she had blood pressure problems so i didn`t want to stress her any further.

We are not children and lit out the sigarettes in water and then we hid the home made ashtray after wards, so the cleaners wouldn`t see it.

I still think its a bit strict...
When i went to the US last year, they still had smokers room, i think its a little bit exaggerated when you don`t really bother anyone when you are smoking on the balcony.

They were built with walls all around it so the smoke would just go outside the balcony and not to the neighbour.

She knew i didn`t like to break the rule, but she also knew i thought it was stupid.

They had ashtrays on the balconies outside of the rooms(it was like an outside hallway to get to the rooms),even if it wasn`t allowed to smoke there, so i think they were used to people breaking the rule(of lack of knowledge maybe? Which is what i did first).

A bit boring to tell you all about my smoking problems on my holiday.
I think a long life in psychiatry has made me a little more anxious because i have met so many anxious people there.

Also i didn`t want the woman to think that i was a betterwiser....by coming up with lots of morals on her holiday..

she knew it was illegal because i told her about it, it said so in a pamplet with small text that i read, it was about the rules of the hotel(which is good to read now and again).

(And yes i know smoking can kill you and so can many other things, which is why i try to make it a minimum.. not easy for me to quit).

So the smoke got in my eyes but thankfully i didn`t get any of her puke over me :shock:


I haven`t shared a bedroom with another (unknown) person for a long time, last time i did a trip like this(its called unspecified, you don`t know what hotel you end up in or with whom), was about 15 years ago.

When i first arrived in the hotel room she seemed so curious about everything i was doing..this made me a bit uncomfterable as i had a luggage with a code on and she was looking at me while i was unpacking. She also wanted to know who i sent a txt message to when i answered someone...i told her it was none of her business, since i thought it was rude of her to ask me, like as if she had a right to know it.

She also came up behind me when i was sitting in front of the pc in the reception, on the first night. So she could be a bit tiresome to be with and she was following me around.

So i think this is maybe why i was so tired when i got back home?

Maybe i should have upgraded my ticket when i found this out? Why didn`t i do it?
Kinda regret not having done it...even if it would have cost me lots of money which i don`t really have, it would have maybe saved from the worse flu i have ever had.

I didn`t eat for 24 hours, i had things coming out of every cavity in my body and finally ended up with the worst attack of cold sores i have ever had in my life....

I haven`t had cold sores for 10 years, but recently they have started to come back again in stressful situations.

And specially when i am on a vacation when i am supposed to be relaxing...

Life is so complicated to understand...does any one have the time? I think we are going into the new year? See you all on the other side. halu :shock:
Last edited by Hallusinating on Sat Dec 31, 2011 10:20 pm, edited 1 time in total.

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