Reunion Recap

Remember when I wrote the post outlining the 10 reasons I'm not attending my 10 year reunion?  (If you didn't read it, click the link... you know you want to!)  Well, right after I posted that, I got into a "heap of trouble".  I was officially BANNED from the FB page and received a message telling me that what I had done was worse than all the comments and issues.  I made quite a splash!

I was once told that I am a pot stirrer... and it's true.  So here I go... stirring the pot once again.

Today is the big day.  The 10 year reunion.  Everyone (minus me) has been anticipating this date.  Dresses have been purchased.  Flights have been booked.  Babysitters have been called.  People have made big plans for tonight.  The one thing people didn't plan on?  Rain.

Ok, seriously?!  How can you NOT plan on rain in FLORIDA!  There is ALWAYS a back up plan... always.  But not for the reunion.  If you remember, they planned on having the party in the porch of rented home.  They had to rent chairs, tables, linens, dance floor.  Hire caterers, bartenders, dj, valet and security.  This whole "house party" was costing $80 per person.  Remember?

So now you're thinking, "if it's at a house, why not move the party inside?" and that would be the logical option.  Only, the interior of the house is under construction and unavailable!  It's like the icing on the cake.  I wonder what they planned on doing about bathrooms?  haha.

A few hours ago, there was a post on FB saying that the reunion has been postponed to a later date due to the weather.  The date is to be determined.  And when someone expressed that this was all highly unprofessional, they were attacked.  I wonder if he too will be banned for coming after the committee... it's like Big Brother, people!

The people who have not grown up in the last 10 years still have some things to say... such as:
- Let's make it a slip n' slide party
-  Wet t-shirt contest!
mmhmmm... riiiight.

What about all those people who booked babysitting for tonight?  What about all those people who saved their money to hop on a plane and see their high school friends?  What about the $80 per person?  I can't believe they would be so UNPROFESSIONAL as to assume that making these accommodations would be simple and free.  To cancel the event on the DAY of the event is unheard of.  Those people that travelled from far away will not be able to book another flight and come back in town on the new day of the committee's choosing.  They should not have to be at their beck and call.  And, the real kicker... they're not going to return anyone's money.  Even if they can't make it to the new date.  Why? Because everyone's been paid already.  No refunds.  That is CRAP.

I think the whole thing has been a spectacle and debacle from the very beginning... but this just tops it all!  This could all have been avoided if they had been NORMAL and booked the event in a reception hall or hotel.  But nooooo, that would be too simple and logical... and "hello, we are like super st. brendan and it has to be absolutely super."  (use your Miami-girl voice for that.)


In all honesty, I feel bad for those people who spent a lot of their hard earned money to attend this event and now they wont be able to.  It's a shame that the committee did not have the foresight to see that Mother Nature always has the last say.

Don't Push my Hot Button

If you've been reading my blog for a while, you're probably asking, "which hot button?".  I know, I have quite a few... this is my outlet.

So, we went to Miami for the Christmas holiday (I plan on updating on that soon with lots of pics), and returned to Greenville on Monday.  We didn't have a ride to the airport, so decided to bite the bullet, put our car in the lot, and pay up when the time came.  When we arrived at the airport, Mau took Marco and the bags to the car and I waited with Jonas at baggage to collect the car seats.  Mau pulls up to the curb, loads the kids and begins to leave.  While we're driving out of the airport, he tells me this story:

When I pulled up to pay at the parking garage, the attendant noticed your handicap decal in the window.  She looked at me and said "You're not handicapped", to which I replied, "You're right, but my wife is".  She said that I couldn't get the handicap discount because the handicap person was not in the car.  I told her I was going to pick you up because you couldn't walk this far, and she had a fit saying that I couldn't get the discount.  So, I ended up paying... $87.


After hearing this story, every one of my hot buttons had been pushed.  I was going to eat the parking attendant alive.  "TURN THE CAR AROUND", I yelled.  We went back to the scene of the crime, I marched out of the car and knocked on the supervisors door.  I explained, in my most stern and serious voice:

My husband was just in line to pay and he was not given the handicap discount for our car because I was not in the car at the moment.  If I'm handicap, how am I supposed to walk a MILE to get my car in the first place?  I am a handicap person, I have a handicap decal, my husband was picking me up at the handicap entrance, we are a handicap car and we are entitled to our handicap discount.  MOREOVER, how DARE your parking attendant assume that my husband is not the handicap person.  Do I look handicap to you?!  I am... with 3 conditions, none-the-less.  But I shouldn't have to justify or explain my conditions to you in order to receive a discount which is rightfully mine.  You are NOT going to have me pay nearly $100 for a technicality.

Needless to say, we got all $87 back and they treated me most apologetically after my soap box speech.  That poor woman had no idea what was coming to her.  I've been fighting this same battle since I was 16 years old and I am SO tired of hearing comments and sneers because I am not missing a leg or in a wheel chair.

That is one button you don't want to press.