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

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billybassie · 09/09/2022 17:58

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.

🤮

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billybassie · 09/09/2022 20:17

OldTinHat · 09/09/2022 20:12

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!

Haha! We never learn, and it sounds like it doesn't improve post 40 😂

This just triggered for me a horrible ferry ride from Naples during a storm, where we'd been on sambuca with some waiters in Naples the night before travelling. I got through puking sambuca on a stormy boat driven by a Napoli captain, I can surely get through a short haul flight tomorrow.

I love Naples and all of Italy, no offence to any of them.

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declutteringmymind · 09/09/2022 20:19

@billybassie I'm the same!!!

threepointonefourone · 09/09/2022 20:22

Oh god @Paperdove87 I was smugly reading through theses 🤔 I’ve never been that fucking stupid.

but I have.

i had a bloody drunken uni reunion the night before my best friends wedding. Was ver nearly late to the ceremony, accidentally trapped my mates fascinator in the car door and crushed it.(as a passenger, I was NOT driving, obvs)

the wedding was in a historic building, with one exit at the front of the room I was at the back, dry heaving with the horrible, horrible realisation that if I needed to puke, if have to bolt past the couple as they did their vows.

i was so, so ill.

Fevertree · 09/09/2022 20:24

I took all inappropriate things, Incomplete outfits and had to go and buy everything- Make up, shoes, clothes at my destination!

Shodan · 09/09/2022 20:30

Oh god.

Not before I went- but the night before we were being picked up at 10 am the following morning.

Went out. Drank a very unwise amount of alcohol. Got back to the apartment at 6 am. Neglected to set any kind of alarm, or throw things in suitcase, with the breezy over-confidence of the horrifically drunk that 'it'll be FIIIIINNNNNEEEE'.

The driver was banging Very Crossly on the door for quite some time. I had to get up, put on some kind of clothes, pack and be out of the door in under ten minutes. Words cannot describe how truly awful that 10 minutes was. Felt sick, headachy, kept tripping over things. The journey to the airport was hectic ( I think the driver was deliberately throwing the car around😂). Got to the airport and actually fell asleep on my suitcase in the queue to check in.

I did, however, manage to refrain from throwing up. Quite proud of myself for that one.

WingingItSince1973 · 09/09/2022 20:34

Three years ago this month we went to in laws for a cocktail night for bro and sis in laws anniversary. All dressed up and felt really glam. First few cocktails went down a treat. Then my fil took over making them and he over estimates the alcohol and at one point I have a cocktail in each hand. All of a sudden I'm completely blotto and need to head home. Dh drove of course. Got to front door and I threw up on my lovely shoes. I could only make it to the sofa where I sort of half died in all my party finery. Next day we headed off on holiday. I hadn't packed. I had packed everyone else's but thought I can do mine in the morning. My days I thought I was dying. It was so hard to function and pack for all weather's as it was a week in Yorkshire. The journey was hell. My eyes were still bloodshot days later and I was convinced I was in organ failure. Anyway ended up having the best holiday and I've not touched a drop since!! Well the odd half glass white wine but even that makes me feel sick x

Homewardbound2022 · 09/09/2022 20:36

Flew back from the Canaries with the filthiest hangover I've ever had. Wasn't a direct flight either and thought I'd need medical treatment.
Behind me in the queue for check-in was a woman and her child.
THREE TIMES her trolley touched the back of my ankle. Red mist came down.
On the third occasion, I spun around and said in a loud slow menacing voice..."you touch me ONE MORE TIME with your (insert possible expletive) trolley and you'll be sorry. NOW MOVE BACK!!!"

Hoppinggreen · 09/09/2022 20:36

Post A levels.
Spent the night with an American soldier in Greece. Arrived at the hotel with 15 minutes before the coach to the airport was due. My lovely mates helped me pack and steered me through the airport. I knew we invited a couple of sensible (boring) people to come for a reason

LegoFiends · 09/09/2022 20:42

A former flatmate packed drunk. Winter clothes for a summer holiday, three left shoes and a large Latin dictionary (because she was going to Italy so thought in made sense).

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billybassie · 09/09/2022 20:51

WingingItSince1973 · 09/09/2022 20:34

Three years ago this month we went to in laws for a cocktail night for bro and sis in laws anniversary. All dressed up and felt really glam. First few cocktails went down a treat. Then my fil took over making them and he over estimates the alcohol and at one point I have a cocktail in each hand. All of a sudden I'm completely blotto and need to head home. Dh drove of course. Got to front door and I threw up on my lovely shoes. I could only make it to the sofa where I sort of half died in all my party finery. Next day we headed off on holiday. I hadn't packed. I had packed everyone else's but thought I can do mine in the morning. My days I thought I was dying. It was so hard to function and pack for all weather's as it was a week in Yorkshire. The journey was hell. My eyes were still bloodshot days later and I was convinced I was in organ failure. Anyway ended up having the best holiday and I've not touched a drop since!! Well the odd half glass white wine but even that makes me feel sick x

Yes I was in the "I think I have organ failure" at lunchtime today. Hideous.

We have a whisky tasting experience booked for tomorrow eve after landing. 😬 I've got a rehydration drink ready for the morning.

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HarleySq · 09/09/2022 20:51

billybassie · 09/09/2022 19:33

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

@billybassie
Mmm???
Nursery class of 52, 3-5 year olds....

SiobhanSharpe · 09/09/2022 20:52

The day after DS's 2nd birthday we were going on holiday to France. This was his first party as we'd been returning from visiting family abroad on his first birthday..
So we were celebrating quite hard and the champagne flowed freely into the night, after all the toddlers had gone home/to bed.
The next day DH and I were both so hungover we missed our midnight ferry to France, getting to Portsmouth just in time to see it sailing off into the distance.

We only lived a two hour drive from the port at the time.

This was also when I learned that contrary to the old saying, you can get a hangover from drinking champagne.

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billybassie · 09/09/2022 20:56

@HarleySq Nooooooo 🤮

I think I'd just fake a faint. That's up there with cabin crew. I can't think of much worse. Maybe banana boat driver? Butlins kids club leader?

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billybassie · 09/09/2022 20:58

SiobhanSharpe · 09/09/2022 20:52

The day after DS's 2nd birthday we were going on holiday to France. This was his first party as we'd been returning from visiting family abroad on his first birthday..
So we were celebrating quite hard and the champagne flowed freely into the night, after all the toddlers had gone home/to bed.
The next day DH and I were both so hungover we missed our midnight ferry to France, getting to Portsmouth just in time to see it sailing off into the distance.

We only lived a two hour drive from the port at the time.

This was also when I learned that contrary to the old saying, you can get a hangover from drinking champagne.

That's amazing. Champagne hangovers hit you right in the head, they're so much worse than you'd expect.

Maybe we should all stop drinking? (After my holiday involving whisky)

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WingingItSince1973 · 09/09/2022 21:00

billybassie · 09/09/2022 20:51

Yes I was in the "I think I have organ failure" at lunchtime today. Hideous.

We have a whisky tasting experience booked for tomorrow eve after landing. 😬 I've got a rehydration drink ready for the morning.

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Dehydration drink!!! I think a defibrillator would be best 🤣

WingingItSince1973 · 09/09/2022 21:01

I mean rehydration drink 🤣

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billybassie · 09/09/2022 21:03

You've all been a grand help btw. I feel just as much of an ageing idiot, but at least I'm not alone.

I'll probably update with more hideous regret in the next week, maybe after our whisky tasting.

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HarleySq · 09/09/2022 21:04

billybassie · 09/09/2022 20:56

@HarleySq Nooooooo 🤮

I think I'd just fake a faint. That's up there with cabin crew. I can't think of much worse. Maybe banana boat driver? Butlins kids club leader?

😂🤣😂

Sorry parents ( and kids) I locked myself in the toilet!

MrsJBaptiste · 09/09/2022 21:06

Shit, I remember this...

My sister's wedding (free bar from 12pm) got home the next day puking every half an hour, having to pack for a week away in a tent. Kids so excited, me definitely not 🤢

Mammyloveswine · 09/09/2022 21:09

Went to Dublin for my birthday age 19 with then boyfriend...hadn't packed a thing..went for a "birthday drink" after work.., omg cue me pissed at 2am packing for the flight and my dad dropping us at the airport at 5am...couldn't check into hotel in Dublin until 4pm... awful..,

GrabbyGabby · 09/09/2022 21:10

At university, it was exam season, mine finished wierdly early, along with another Irish friend of mine.

We finished our exams, had ferries booked back to ireland the next day, back for a month over easter.

We got totally shitfaced. Didn't sleep. I went to her house at about 4am and i packed her ruck sack and then we went to my house and she packed mine. Then we set off on the 12 plus hour journey home.

I got home and unpacked. I had all my underwear, but no clothes. None.

She had nothing but the welcome mat from the front of their house and a half eaten apple.

33goingon64 · 09/09/2022 21:12

Hmm not the same but took a flight to family holiday with flu. Croaked packing instructions to DH from the bed, stood shaking with fever in the airport queues with DC propping me up, slept on plane, spent all holiday in bed. Wouldn't do that now with Covid around.

sparklyglitterball · 09/09/2022 21:29

I went out with a friend for lunch who is notorious for turning a civilised meet up into a complete piss up. We ended up drinking wine and then cocktails all afternoon........somehow made it home late in the evening and had to pack for a skiing holiday we were leaving for at the crack of dawn the following day! My then boyfriend (now DH) found it hilarious to watch me staggering around our flat trying to throw various warm weather suitable clothing items into a suitcase. Felt absolutely hideous getting up the next day. Someone had terrible wind on the train to the airport which was making me gag every few minutes. Then spent the flight in a cold panic that I'd forgotten essentials and packed a load of useless crap! Never again have I drunk any booze the night before a holiday.

AffIt · 09/09/2022 21:31

I once flew out at 7.30am on 1 January. I'm Scottish, so obviously the 31st Dec is kind of a big deal round here...

Hadn't packed in advance, got in around 2.30am.

Couldn't find my passport for FOREVER, was drunkenly shoving pants in a holdall. It wasn't a good look, but I made the flight. I was very proud of myself.

AffIt · 09/09/2022 21:32

I was also 38 at the time, so I can't even blame youth for my iniquities.

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