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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here.

You can't make this stuff up. She texted 10 minutes ago and asked me to hug the kids good night. I asked to face time and she said she wouldn't because hotel wall too thin and would wake people.[/quote]

Or its 10 o’clock pm her time (or later) and it’s true.

Have you done much overseas travel, OP? Do you understand jet lag and the weirdness that comes in some hotels?

I know you don’t want To hear it, but overseas travel sucks. It sucks the life out of you. It sounds fun until you’ve done it, but then you realize it’s exhasuting and a pain in the ass. You miss your family but can’t summon the energy to be present when you should be. You’ve just spent 24 hours travelling when everyone else has woken up, hand meals, hung out, etc. it sounds glorious to be sitting on a plane with nothing to do, but that’s not the reality. You’ve been working on airport WiFi, trying to make your way through security, eating airport food, and waiting for your flight, crammed amongst the other people. You sat in. A 1’x 1’ square for 12 hours, huddled waiting for your luggage that was late, waited an hour and a half for the wrong rental car, then checked into a hotel with not enough pillows and a weird smell. You had to wake up after not enough sleep and a time change for a meeting with someone you don’t care about, but that your boss wants you to care about, all after eating hotel powdered eggs and watered down coffee. Your body is 9 hours behind, but the world is expecting you to be two hours ahead. The food is weird, you lost your toothbrush and forgot to pack your headphones, and in three days you have to do it all over again, but backwards.

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