Family HolidaysBack in the 80s when my Dad got made redundant (hello Dad!), he spent all the redundancy money on one of those big motor caravans.
Us kids loved it, apart from when my sister threw up on my sleeping bag, but looking back I'm not so sure my mum did. There was a certain tension every time the big van was even mentioned, let alone driven around France for weeks on end with her still having to cook and do all the washing.
What went wrong, what went right, and how did you survive the shame of having your family with you as a teenager?
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chthonic, Thu 2 Aug 2007, 14:33)
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woooh we're going to Ibizaa!!!Extended Family holiday in the White Isle 1989
10 of us in 2 apartments
* 3rd night, roof of the balcony collapses onto us while we are having dinner. Result: 2 of our party having to have stitches in headwounds
* 4th Day, my brother stabs me through the hand with a carving knife after I accidentally rip the cover off one of his skateboard magazines. Result: Stitches in my hand, hand bandaged, no swimming for me for the rest of the holiday
* also on the 4th day, the skinny stray cat my soppy mum had made friends with gets squashed by a car right in front of her eyes. Result: My mum balling her eyes out for the best part of a day
* 7th day (day we are due to go home) the stomach ache Id developed a day before is diagnosed as acute appendicitis. Result: Me spending 3 weeks in hospital, missing the first week of Upper School and driving my mum to a near nervous brakedown
* Day finally arrive back into England, my understandably emotional mum crashes our car into the back of an Ice cream van on the way back from Luton airport
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bigmeuprudeboy is using powerpoint or paint...have MERCY, Fri 3 Aug 2007, 14:48,
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