Please sympathise with me by telling me of a time you had to pack for a holiday with a stonking hangover

[billybassie]

Hanging out of my arse. I'm pushing 40 so should know better. Been vomiting most of the day and now have to pack for a 2 week holiday. Flight at 8am.

Clothes are washed and mostly ready to pack. Last night before stumbling to bed a put the passports and boarding passes nicely in a pile on the table, so that was nice of me.

Please make me feel better by telling me of times you have been similarly stupid when having to do something important the next day.

🤮

I had to pack to go on a university field trip while horrendously hung over. Woke up and had about 25 mins to pack and get to the meeting point. I have no idea how I did it. I nearly fell over in the car park.

And every single time I had to pack up my room before my parents arrived to collect me at the end of term. Would always go out the night before (having got MOST of it packed up) and would have to finish the rest in a couple of hours in the morning feeling swimmy and dreadful and wondering if it was very noticeable.

I’m a sensible, mostly sober, productive member of society now but I was not terribly sensible at the time!

Keep up the water and try for some toast. You can do this!

It's ok to do when you're at uni, your body and mind can plough through it when you're that age!

Since 35 I cannae hack it.

I went to Greece once, on my own and got horrendously pissed the night before I was due to fly home. Woke up half an hour before the bus was due to take me to the airport. Managed to shove everything in my bag just in time but I felt very sorry for myself on the way home!

Have another drink or two in the morning. Hair of the dog really does make a difference. DP and I had to dismantle and pack our entire Burning Man theme camp with terrible hangovers on Monday. Taking apart and loading several metric tons of scaffolding and shade structure into the back of a truck in 45 degree heat whilst feeling decidedly listless was not at all fun, but drinking through it helped.

Holiday to Mexico with friends - 9 hour flight. The night before they stayed with us as we live near Gatwick and I decided it would be a great idea to break out the Margaritas, while admonishing everyone not to drink too much. Guess who didn't take her own advice and ended up lurking at the back of the airport lounge for 2 hours not able to take advantage of the free breakfast and prosecco? Fortunately by the time we boarded I had recovered

Alka seltzer

Sorry but stonking holiday has me dying

I went out for "a quick drink" to welcome a new colleague to our department a few years ago

At midnight I was off my face in a nightclub near Monument station and the taxi to take me from home to the airport was coming at 5am. Luckily it was a lazy beach holiday so I only needed the minimum amount of stuff but my god, that flight was awful 🤢

Good luck OP. You can do it!

Oh god. Late 30's, old enough to know better and yet I still went out to a birthday party in London the night before a flight for a long haul flight for a very expensive guided trip in an exotic location.

Meant to be meeting friend who is also going on same trip, at Heathrow at midday the next day. She warns me not to be late as she knows the birthday person, who has form for notoriously drunken evenings. It's also the week before Xmas so loads of people out to get pissed.

I promised her not to have a late night and that part was true - I left by 10pm. Unfortunately it was 2 for 1 cocktails special and freebie mulled wine and we'd started at 5pm. Nothing to eat, just some crisps. Got home, crashed and slept like a log.

Next morning was AWFUL. Sick a LOT. Then dry retching,. Barely able to stand up. Hadn't finished packing. Threw random final things at the bag, got a cab - terrified I'd throw up in it - and made it to the check in desk with minutes to spare. Friend was fuming and barely able to speak to me for ages.

I swore never again and stuck to it, am sensible now and haven't been that drunk (or even a bit) for years.

Hope you feel better soon OP!

I once took a flight the early morning after a big to do the evening before. I was suffering at the airport and ate alot of McDonald's. The destination was very hot and that made things worse. The next day everything was fine!

I caught a flight to Ireland in my first year of uni after a night on the piss.

Woke up and threw whatever I could into a bag (forgot to pack underwear) had to get a cab to the train station as I was so late.

Asked the cabbie to stop at the cash point so I could get money to pay him. Tried to take out 15 quid but pressed the buttons so badly I ended up with 155 English pounds. For a trip to Ireland (helpful). In 1997.

My in-laws got me insanely drunk once in Florida (it was definitely their fault not mine ahem) anyway we were flying home the next morning and I could barely stand let alone get on a plane. I was sick everywhere. You know that nice person who holds out a bin bag before you get on the plane off the tunnel/gangplank thing? I was sick in his binbag. Sick on the plane. Sick sick sick. We were in business class because my dad had collected so many points from work travel and kindly gifted them to us. The waiter dude put and teeny tiny bunch of grapes on my arm rest and left me to sleep - which I did, all the way. Got off at Heathrow, onto Piccadilly line, up to Hyde park corner, straight to work!! I'd be down for a week if that was now. Plus, imagine ruining your one and only trip in business class. Idiot.

Ahhh this is all making me feel better thank you. I'm not the only idiot adult🥰

Thank fuck it's not long haul, only a 4.5hr flight.

I'm cabin crew and once "sensibly" went out for lunch with some of the crew as we were flying next day at noon. I thought smugly - some of them will have sore heads tomorrow & I won't.

Well towards the end of the late lunch 5ish we met some of the others and some Alitalia crew & I decided (after a full day drinking red wine ) that tequila was a good idea... did make it to bed early in evening - so was safe to fly & withtin rules but I felt like I had been dug up. 🤮

I had to fly home on my feet with make up on and heels serving people red wine & dinner and then their breakfast on a 14 hour flight.

Almost 30 years ago now. Never ever ever done it since.
You have my sympathy x

I cannot think of anything worse than being cabin crew with a hangover.

You should watch the documentary about the drug's musk Michaela McCollum (sp?)

She agreed to smuggle drugs pissed off her head then woke up the next morning and got on a flight that she thought wasn't going far from Ibiza and ended up in s America.

Mule

I went out for a ‘few’ drinks the night before a holiday. It turned into an absolute bender, and I slept through my alarms, AND the cab ringing me from outside. Totally out of it (as I think, can’t quite remember, I went to bed about 2 hrs before I needed to get up). Stupid stupid stupid.
Did manage to get another cab and just about make it to the airport. Thankfully I’d packed most stuff the night before.
No time to shower / wash my hair etc. So I must’ve stunk of booze!

Rock and roll it.

Passport
Phone
Charger
Purse
Mask
Clear plastic bag for liquids
Some kind of cardigan or scarf or hoodie

Shove everything else in your suitcase

Enjoy!

Aiiieeee alas I'm not a rocknroll lady these days.

I once flew to Amsterdam with just a rucksack of passport/rizlas/about 3 pair of clean knickers for 6 weeks in the Netherlands, now I need a full 23kg checked case and break into a cold sweat at the idea of hotel hairdryers. I need my dyson hairdryer, anti ageing make up remover, rehydration tablets.

The difference 20 years makes.

I think I'm packed. DH has just poured me a prosecco. I'm either going to rally or vom.

Find a sensible packing list from the internet, print it off and sit down with your hair of the dog while you look through it. It will help jog your memory for anything you've forgotten, so you won't be kicking yourself on arrival.

Got hideously drunk on the first night of a friend's two night wedding. I was a bridesmaid and had to make a speech the next day. The shaking was not from nerves. I got through it but it was not my finest hour. I also thought I'd left their album from the photo booth in a taxi on my way home but it turned up luckily.

I went on holiday to the Canaries to celebrate my divorce and spent all morning and afternoon in the pub on the day of the flight. Cab in the evening to the airport then drank again in the airport. Got on the plane and started throwing up and my seven day holiday started with a three day hangover where I couldn't even move my head! 😆

Three decades later, knowing I was going on a pleasure cruise the next morning, decided to have a bottle glass of wine with a neighbour the night before. Being on a boat for four hours with both ends going at once is not pleasant, especially trying to balance in the tiny loo with the waves crashing the boat about!

Have a great holiday OP, you've got this!