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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I got food poisoning once on day 1 and spent the entire expensive vacation in an expensive hotel room bathroom floor while my DH did a few of the expensive excursions by himself and we let the other ones go to waste. It was awful, and frankly 8 years later it still is to remember. I always plan for bad weather wherever we go and my expectations there are always low, but you can’t plan for [b]debilitating illness[/b]. [/quote]

Food poisoning is not a debilitating illness. Try an auto-immune disease on for size. Or maybe threw in a few brain tumors. :roll: [/quote]

This isn’t a contest. You don’t win anything by playing the biggest victim. Other people have their own problems, it’s not your job to put them in their place.[/quote]

Some things are objectively not as big of a deal as others. Think hang nail vs broken leg. Not everyone deserves a pity party when they are being a grown up baby. [/quote]

Nobody ever really “deserves” anything. Go start your own post about your miserable life and maybe someone will humor you. [/quote]

People who are going through real hardships deserve sympathy and help. You have clearly never experienced any real debilitating illness. Instead of throwing a tantrum, be grateful. [/quote]

Omg you are insufferable. OP came on a discussion board, in particular a travel sub-forum, to discuss a particular travel vent. She didn’t set up a go fund me so she can plan another trip. She isn’t at a chemo center whining to cancer patients. If you don’t want to discuss the disappointments of travel, you are free to scroll past.

I have a kid with SNs and I post/read about a lot of heavy topics in that forum. But I can also hold other thoughts in my head about less significant issues and have empathy for the more mundane disappointments in life. If she were posting 6 months later it may be extreme, but on the last day of her trip it seems normal she is reflecting and feeling bummed.

Also I posted earlier about having limited funds and PTO to do fun things. So I think there could be an element of burnout and being disappointed your break was lackluster.[/quote]
+1 some people act like empathy and sympathy are a finite resource [/quote]

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