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.

If your teen is so difficult, stop rewarding with a holiday with friends!

Don’t go. Your surly teenager needs a learn to be grateful or no more holidays. The world won’t pander to her needs.

With a bit of luck you may die before the holiday, there’s still time.
😉😁.

Nasty.

No, I'm pretty sure she doesn't want the whole world to suffer. She just really doesn't want to go on the holiday.

I can't believe none of the holier than thou brigade posting here have never had a similar thought ever.

Bit unecessary. Are you the teenager?

Why do people always take things so literally 😆

There's a comedian Daniel Sloss who jokes about people secretly thinking it would be easier if their partner just died rather than go through all the hassle of breaking up and it was clear that resonated with a lot of people. They most likely didn't actually want their partner to die, they just wanted to be through the other side.

Yep

I will be gutted as will mini blondes if our flights get cancelled. I work hard all year and save so I can pay for us to have a nice holiday in the sun

you don’t went to go then ffs cancel your Holiday @Decisionsdecisions1 lighthearted or not

Relax, folks. If your flights or hols do get cancelled, it'll be fuck all to do with the OP's wishful thinking. 🙄

The holiday does sound awful, so don’t blame you for not wanting to go. With the war going on, people are genuinely afraid of losing their holiday in summer. Even if this is meant to be light hearted, a lot of people paid a lot of money for holidays they are scared of being cancelled. This post reminds them that there is a fairly high risk.

Right? Good lord, lighten up folks

I don't think OP deserves to be vilified but equally there are clearly a lot of people who think you can have a pass to say pretty much anything as long as you stick 'lighthearted!' at the end of it. These are the same people who defend bullying with 'oh my God, it was just banter - can't you take a joke? - lighten up'. etc. etc.

My holiday is visiting my family in my home country. I am glad someone would be happy that I couldn't see my Dad with Parkinsons and prostate cancer. Good for you. I hope your eczema won't be bothering you too much.

I have a friend who hoped for another pandemic so she wouldn't have to go on a planned holiday to Austrailia because of the flight.

I know she didn't mean it she wanted awful things to happen to the whole world, but whining about a holiday that's out of the reach of most has changed how I feel about her.

Those who are condemning the OP - her post is less distasteful than the posts complaining about the war inconveniencing them by potentially stopping their (ecologically irresponsible) holidays

I don't think I have written "goady fucker" on a post but there is a first time for everything. Take responsibility for your own issues and cancel your own damn holiday. Christ, I bet you are the type of person who would take a day off for trauma if they broke a toenail.

Wishing for something isn't going to make it happen.

As that old saying goes, you can wish in one hand and shit in the other and see which gets full first!

Is was all over the press a couple of days ago. Tui and Jet2 have both made similar statements.

It is light hearted !

Oh dear. Do you all have to go together? Do you even have to go at all?

Jesus, some posters really need to calm down and take themselves out for an ice cream!

obviously the OP isn’t actually wishing global catastrophe upon us all. Practise reading for tone and context clues, people, and apply some common sense.

Honestly, why do this to yourself? You'd rather go on a holiday always with other people, somewhere you don't like the look of, in weather that's too hot for you, than not go at all?

If your teen is going to be hideous then don't take her on holiday AT ALL. She doesn't need to go anywhere and if she's going to do nothing but bitch and moan and be difficult then she'd probably rather not go anyway. Either offer to let her bring a friend (if she has any) and go somewhere that you choose, or don't take her at all.

Find ways of taking a few days away for yourself, either with your partner if you can leave your DD with a relative or friend for a few days, or take turns with your partner to look after her while the other goes away for a few blissful days alone, where the choice is wholly yours to please yourself.

Lord, but people take things awfully seriously. Even if OP meant every word, she's not actually in charge of the universe. If she were, she would probably make more congenial holiday arrangements, rather than spoil the plans of irate Mumsnetters.
From another perspective, I thought I was being a bit selfish to hope that the whole situation wouldn't mean my daughter loses the chance to go on her first ever foreign holiday. I've never been able to take her abroad, for health and financial reasons, but now she's independent she can go with friends. It seems like a petty concern when people's lives are being ended or turned upside down. I wonder if a different set of posters would have a go at me for even thinking that.

I know this is supposed to be lighthearted, but... only on Mumsnet.

It's 2020 all over again, with the race to the bottom: let's all be as miserable as we can, for the greater good. Children must not use playgrounds in 2020, because it's worth it if it saves one life. We couldn't go on holiday in 2020, but that's a good thing, because it made Greta Thunberg happy (I'm surprised she didn't pop up like a jack-in-the-box to tell us that; perhaps her handlers thought better of it). Since 2020, some people have been conditioned to think that global disaster is always just around the corner: another side-effect of the government deliberately "frightening the pants off the public" (their words, not mine).

The important word in that statement is the use of "currently", as:

"Easyjet currently sees no disruption to it's jet fuel supply"....

That's not a promise that they won't be seeing problems in a couple of months or that they won't be cancelling anything this year...

I know there a lot of people working in the industry who are on the quiet wondering how things are going to looking late summer/early autumn if the supply situation doesn't improve PDQ.

There could in extremis be layoffs, standowns and even eventually companies going bust...