Is it fair to ask for a refund?

[Anonymous]

All this drama over a broken arm? I'd be more sympathetic if it were a broken leg but for Christ sake, the kid can still partially go in the water and hold his arm up.

[Anonymous]

I'm surprised everyone treats one week on a beach like never-to-be-missed-at-all-costs, drag-along-your-injured-child event. "Suck it up and go."

It's just a week on a beach. No big deal. No lives will be ruined. We can go there pretty much amy time we want.

Geez, like some of you never get out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm surprised everyone treats one week on a beach like never-to-be-missed-at-all-costs, drag-along-your-injured-child event. "Suck it up and go."

It's just a week on a beach. No big deal. No lives will be ruined. We can go there pretty much amy time we want.

Geez, like some of you never get out.

We're not asking for a refund. If the choice is go or lose the money it's wise to go.

[Anonymous]

LOL. No, you can't ask for a refund.

Let the poor kid go to the beach. Staying behind is MUCH sadder for the DC.

Make some memories and have fun.

[Anonymous]

If I was the other family I may offer a refund for something big and tragic or problematic. If you cancelled over a broken arm just because it kind of sucks for the kid I would laugh in your face and not invite you next year.

I broke my ankle at sleepaway camp one year. Crutches through the woodsy paths , no swimming or rafting trip, no other sports. I spent a lot of time tie dying and making props for the play and making my boyfriend give me backrubs for my sore arms. That summer was awesome.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Then teach your child to enjoy the nature! WTF? Is it so difficult to hang out with your kid for the week? Go for walks, wade in, look for sea glass, set up an umbrella and play games. The possibilities are endless.

The possibilities are NOT endless. If you have to fill 8 hours with a 6 year old in 100 degree heat. If you've been there you'd know that walks on a beach under a burning sun in 95+ degrees are not fun. Staying in the house defeats the purpose of traveling.

And I'm not going to put myself in a position where I have to entertain a kid all day every day for a week - make up activities and games to fill time. I have a life too, you know.

So the only possibility is if the child can be in the water. I'll order a waterproof cover and wait and see what the doctor will tell us.

well, you have to fill the hours if you stay home, too, or are you leaving DC at camp/nanny?

[Anonymous]

Clearly op doesn't want to go on the trip anymore for reasons besides the arm thing and is trying to use the broken arm as an excuse to get out of it.

[Anonymous]

I'd offer the refund because I'm not a cheap bastard.

I'd also try to identify another family to invite down for part of the week.

A cast at the beach is uncomfortable. Hot and sweaty...and if you get sand in there, you're screwed. Let them off the hook.

[Anonymous]

OP, I have brittle bone disease and have broken over 150 times in my lifetime, I've been to the beach with broken legs and arms as a kid, sometimes both at the same time, even before waterproof casts. Your child can go to the beach. At worst, you put a garbage bag over with and secure it at the top with rubber bands, at best you get your regular cast replaced with a waterproof one. I am shocked you weren't asked do at the ortho when it went on. How long is the cast for? Kids these days need them for as little as two weeks sometimes.

You should already know whether you need surgery, I am not buying that you are going To find out and still don't know. If your child hasn't had surgery, then there are no open wounds on the skin. How is your child bathing? How is that different from wading in the pool or the ocean? Believe me, your ortho is going to say you can go.

You sound like you already made up your mind you don't want to go because you don't want to watch your child on thebeach during sunny days, but God forbid, what was your back up plan IF IT RAINS?????

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:what was your back up plan IF IT RAINS?????

Ask the other families for a refund..

[Anonymous]

Waterproof casts are more uncomfortable than regular ones.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:what was your back up plan IF IT RAINS?????

Ask the other families for a refund..

LOL!!!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:. Frankly, if I was one of the other families and you asked for a refund, not only would I not cover for you, but I would probably not want to include you on vacation plans in the future as you seem like a difficult person to deal with.

Can you contain yourself and not make personal insults and labels? It's just a discussion.

Hopefully, my friends are more understanding than you. When the other family decided to join us we could have said "no" too. Because we already booked a house and it's a little tight for so many people. We could have said they were "difficult" because twice before they said they would not be going. But yet we agreed. Because this is what friends do for each other. And because things happen.

What "friends do for eachother" is live up to their obligations to pay for something and not expect a refund like it is some sort of business deal. What you are proposing is not at all like what your other friend did. Your other friend took a while to make up their mind on whether they could go, then asked if they could join, than agreed to pair their share. You agreed to pay for something, choose not to live up to that obligation when it it way too late to mitigate that cost, and then expect your friends to cover you.

[Anonymous]

I'd also point out that "refund" is not really the correct word here. A refund is giving back the money that somebody gave TO YOU. The result of a refund is that the refunding party is not "out" any money. As I understand it, this money was never in your friends hands, but with the rental company. You are asking your friends to spend their own money on something they never intended. It is not a refund.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm surprised everyone treats one week on a beach like never-to-be-missed-at-all-costs, drag-along-your-injured-child event. "Suck it up and go."

It's just a week on a beach. No big deal. No lives will be ruined. We can go there pretty much amy time we want.

Geez, like some of you never get out.

And you're acting like you won't get to eat if you don't get back money for a rental you're choosing not to use. You sound miserly and petty.