Reply to how do I hide this particular trip from this particular friend?

Forum Index » Off-Topic

Reply to "how do I hide this particular trip from this particular friend?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why not take her?  [b]That seems strange she cannot afford a bus or plane ticket[/b] or to drive and stay with the kids.[/quote]

Typical DCUM.[/quote]

??? DP here. We are not rich by any stretch of the imagination, but I literally don't know anyone who can't afford to drive or take a bus to stay with family. My immigrant lawn crew and house cleaners all fly back "home" yearly![/quote]

You don't know people who can't afford the gas to drive across the country? Or who own unreliable cars that can't make the trip? A round-trip ticket on Greyhound on a random day next month between LA and DC is $127. You don't know people who literally don't have that much to spare?

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/much-americans-savings-accounts-2023-120041716.html

"How much do you currently have in your savings account? For over a third of Americans, this number is $100 or less.

GOBankingRates recently surveyed 1,000 Americans ages 18 and older to learn more about their banking practices and found that 36% have no more than $100 in their savings account. In a similar study conducted in late 2022, 33% of Americans responded they had $100 or less in savings."[/quote]

NP but just because someone can't afford a trip like that right this moment doesn't mean going 30 YEARS without making a trip they really want to make (to a domestic location). As PP's have said people can generally save up for something like that -- you figure out when the cheap airfare is and save some money over time and stay in a hostel or other cheap accomodations. It would be hard but feasible and people do it all the time. I know people who have taken Greyhounds halfway across the country to visit family.

It's understandable why the friend can't afford to travel to this place today. It is confusing why she hasn't been able to do it for 30 years despite her kids living there.[b] Or why OP could give her airline miles to attend her parents' funerals elsewhere but not to visit her kids once.[/b] None of this makes any sense and I don't say that as a rich person who thinks it's NBD to spend a couple grand to visit someone across the country. I say this as someone with a lot of poor and working class family and who has been pretty hard up for cash myself and this story just does not track.[/quote]

You don't get to dictate how others spend their money (or miles). [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics