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[quote=Anonymous]The prevailing belief on this board is that the person who does the inviting has to then accommodate whatever the invitee wants. There was a thread last week or the week before about a woman who scored Half Dome tickets at Yosemite after years of trying and her husband invited his parents, who don't hike, and then they decided they wanted to fly into an airport that would require 8 hours of driving for the OP to pick them up.

These are not reasonable accommodations for someone joining another person's vacation. These grandparents, and the Yosemite ones, didn't start as part of these trips. If I told my mom about the vacation we are going on this summer and she said, "That sounds great, I'd love to tag along!", everyone would still assume that she was paying for her own vacation. It wouldn't be assumed that my kids should give up THEIR vacation - whether that's flying first class to Greece or hiking Half Dome - because my mom is there. If she couldn't afford the vacation without taking something away from the kids, she straight up wouldn't go.

As for the "resources should roll down hill" posters - that's exactly what's happening here. The OP and her husband paid for seats for their kids. The resources are transferring from parent to child. Y'all seem to think resources should transfer from grandchild to grandparent. That is... weird to me.[/quote]

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