To be secretly hoping our summer flights are all cancelled and there’s a travel ban

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This is awful to admit but I’m secretly hoping something happens and we can’t go on our booked holiday in August.

Because of a difficult teen we pretty much only holiday with friends (she is so awful if it’s just us) but that means compromise - so we didn’t choose the location.
I hate hot weather, it wrecks my skin with eczema. And the chalet site has terrible reviews.

It’s seven weeks of school hols so we have to do something but honestly dreading it. Might have to do something drastic like break an ankle two days before….
i know I’m being ungrateful so this is lighthearted honestly.

The seven weeks of school holiday you'll have to fill are going to be a lot more rammed and annoying if nobody's abroad.

Get the light hearted, but OP says she isn’t looking forward to it.

Maybe though OP will take the attitude of light heartedness to an event she says she is dreading and have a wonderful holiday!

it sounds like you teen would be better of getting a summer job and being very busy at work all summer.

Leave the teen with family or under a bus shelter and go enjoy the holiday of your choice next year.

Seriously though, why is the behaviour so horrible and what's being done about it? I can't imagine being held to ransom like this.

Makes a change from people moaning about how the war (in which innocent people are being killed) is ruining their change to go on holiday!

Yours is rather refreshing 😬

I can't remotely understand why you'd plan a holiday you don't want to go on. Don't enjoy holidays? Don't book one. They're not mandatory.

I don’t understand why you booked it if you know the reviews are bad and you don’t like hot weather?

Yes lets just cancel loads of flights, ruin summers, ruin plans, put people out of pocket, disrupt families because of you!

Selfish!

sort your kid out!

do your research before booking!

why go abroad if it wrecks your skin?

Why on earth did you even book it if you hate every part of it? Just cancel.

If your child is that bad, why are you inflicting her on other people?

Trust me, if YOU think your teen is awful, your friends will too. Seems unfair to subject another family to that.

In my family this is what we would call an Inside Thought, OP.

I think some people on this thread need a holiday.

Get a grip she said it was lighthearted.

Why did you book a chalet site (what is that anyway)? with terrible reviews in the first place?

I think she means a kind of holiday park - 'chalet' being a type of static caravan.

Well I for one is hoping beyond hope that it doesn’t happen, I’ve just been given the go ahead to go abroad later this year after 18 months of gruelling cancer treatment including a bone marrow transplant so I’m really hoping all forms of travel continue

This! FFS clearly OP doesn’t actually want “the world fucked up” for her convenience, it’s a slightly facetious thread about her dreading a holiday. I miss the days when MN was mostly functioning adults who were capable of critical thinking.

The people she is inflicting her awful child on are probably dreading it as well!

The OP did say at the end it was lighthearted! I’m beginning to think no one on here has a sense of humour! 🙄

"but I’m secretly hoping something happens"

like?

I didn’t take my kids abroad for ten years but then their Dad left us. We finally had our first foreign holiday two years ago. I save all year for that one week in the sun, we don’t take other holidays, and we don't eat out or get takeaways we all agreed that summer break is what we want.
I go with my teen and pre-teen, and it really is a week of heaven. My teen isn’t always easy, she has terrible anxiety, but I let her do what she needs to even if that’s a lot of time on her phone. We share a room, and we still find time to talk, read, and swim. That first trip was one of the happiest times of my life.
So yes you are unreasonable that you want my holiday cancelled - you can cancel your own.

Of course, this.

But you will still get the dramatic, hysterical gasping of people shakily pointing their fingers, "So you want everyone to DIE and the world to COME TO AN END so that you don't have to go on holiday?!!"

Why don't you stay at home and your partner/husband takes the teen?

You'll no doubt be miserable too so they get a break form you being grumpy, husband gets a nice holiday (assuming he wants to go) and perhaps the teen will be more relaxed as not picking up on mum's grumpiness?

If it flares up your eczema that's really miserable, don't punish yourself to suit everyone else, just say you can't go as it will make you miserably ill? They can go without you.