I need to vent!

[Ode to a Grasshopper]

the day he decided to "tag along on our trip" (A.K.A take over our trip) i said to him like 4 or 5 times "i dont really want to stay with [Friend A]'s Grandma, cant we just stay at a hotel and each time he's response was "nah, we'll just stay with her, it's better that way"

Here's where you're going wrong: you don't ask if you can stick to your original plans, you say what your plans are and if friend B doesn't like it he can do something else. It's your trip.

Friend B claims the reason he doesnt want to stay at a hotel is to save money (which is understandable) but i'm pretty sure his reason is actualy that he wants to see Friend A's Cousin again (since he "likes" her) and he is more likely to do that if he stays with Friend A's family (grandma)
funny thing is Friend A doesnt seem to get a say in Friend B's plan either even though it's his grandma

If that's not diplomatic enough for you, "Grandma says there's not enough room for three people in her (presumably small) Japanese house, and I'm not comfortable imposing on her anyway. We'll catch up with my cousin at a bar somewhere."

[fatbot]

Urrrrgghh!
as some of you know i have been planning a trip to Japan with a friend of mine (herefore referred to as Friend A) we have planned out a fair bit of our trip so far but last night another friend of mine (herefore reffered to as friend B) found out about the trip we were planning and decided to go with us instead of going on his own in may 2011, we didnt even invite him he just decided he was gonna go with us, and then he starts changing the plans Friend A and I had already made, starting with "you shouldnt go to hiroshima it's boring there", moving on to "you should stay in osaka for about a week not just a few days", then culminating to "we wont stay at a hotel in tokyo we'll stay with [Friend A]'s grandma instead"
one reason we never told Friend B about the trip to Japan we were planning was because we knew if we told him he would decide to come (which he did) and then would start changing our plans (which he has) if he was just going to tag along on our trip but not change any of our plans (maybe he can add a few of his own but he shouldnt change ours) then it would be great to have him along for the trip he's a pretty fun guy to hang out with, he knows his way around some of the places we wanna go since he's already been there but when he starts barking orders and changing the plans that he didnt make he just feels like a real jerk stupid Friend B
ok rant over

remake your old plans with friend A & now C, Don't tell friend B! The day before you depart for Japan, casually ask if he has all of his travel documents in order and in a safe place. The, when his back is turned, Steal them. The plane ticket, his passport. put them in an envelope, addressed to him and pop them in a mailbox. Presto no travel documents means no friend B on the japan trip.

[SharkyMcShark]

Yay the worst sporting week ever continues...

I'm aware that this is by far not the worst week in Manchester United's history, nor really the worst week they've had since I've been following them... its still a bit shit though

[snaketales]

Last Tuesday (March 30) my wife signed up with a door-to-door salesman to turn our home phone and internet over to Optus. The salesman said we HAD to disconnect our old internet account the next day.

I did not see the necessity but my wife was adamant so off it went. At the time I thought the worst case would be no internet for a few days (the home phone would continue until the changeover).

I rang Optus today (April 9) to see where our internet starter kit was only to be told we were still in the cooling off period of 10 business days... and once that was over there would be ANOTHER 10 business days to process the order. So we'll be without home internet or email until at least the end of the month. (Just means when I'm at work I'll be spending more time on the net ).

Sure it's not the end of the world but it's damn annoying. And my wife won't be able to check her work emails to see what shifts she'll be on.

And I don't see why we had to close our old account so soon.

[Ode to a Grasshopper]

I got knocked back from the JET Program. Between being young, adaptable, widely travelled, and qualified -if inexperienced -as an ESL teacher I really thought I had it this time. I don't know why I didn't make it and they have a policy of not going into the reasons behind their choices so I can't even find out (they just send a form letter citing intense competition), but unless they suddenly had hundreds of trained-, Japanese fluent, and more experienced other ESL teachers apply then I just don't get it. This has been a lifelong dream of mine and I've tried for it twice now - who do I have to kill to get into this damn program?

[G1Optimal]

FireStorm

I know, i shouldn't be posting on things like this as, i don't know what i am talking about most of the "time" so i will try to limit my opinion.
( also apologies in advance for talking about things i don't know much about )

Although "B" has a point, about saving money... and "You" and "A" (maybe "C" ) may have a change of mind and decide to do this ("as long, as it is not going to be a problem for A's Granmother")

but IMO Firestorm what i have interpreted from what on you posts so far ....
For some reason i feel "B" is going to control what "You" and "A" (and probably "C") are going to do on this trip even, if there are going to be plans and if this trip is a holiday, it kind of sound like it is not going to be one for anybody other than "B"... if this is not going to be resolved.

I hope the tickets are not booked, as this would leave a option open not to go with B "otherwise" I hope everyone have a good and safe holiday ("especially" if it dose turn out like the reason i said above.")

[Firestorm]

Last night me "A" and "B" were discussing the trip and "A" told "B" about "C" wanting to come with us, and "B" said that now we cant stay with "A's" grandma (YAY) and "B" started going on about what we should do about more people wanting to come with us and stuff, my opinion, the more the merrier (did I spell that right?)
So now we are not staying with "A's" grandma and we've begun proper planning of the trip to include "B" and "C"

On an unrelated note I’ve had a pretty annoying day, I woke up at 9am (after only getting like 2 hours sleep) and had to get ready for work, today I was working the mid shift instead of a close shift like I’d normally do so I was working at the same time as another worker there, who happened to be the person who seems to want me fired (she keeps complaining about me to my boss) so I put up with her till her shift ends then i have to do the rest of my shift alone, my shift started at 11am and ended at 6:30pm but the woman who was taking over after my shift was running late so I didn’t leave work till 7pm then I get a call from my mum saying she lost her car keys and wont be coming to pick me up from work for about another hour or so, I finally get home at 9:15pm, oh and also a friend asked me to come to his birthday party tonight and I said "I’d like to but I’d rather go home and sleep" so now I feel like a jerk for not going (even though if I had of said yes I wouldn’t have gotten there till about 10pm when the party stated at 6pm

[G1Optimal]

Shouldn't jump the gun here but, good to hear and i hope you have a good trip firestorm.

and I don't think your friend would mind "that" you did not go to their birthday party so you could get some sleep ...

[liegeprime]

Oh ok so all is fine with your trip now Firestorm, good. Have fun and plenty of pics, pics, pics to post okies! Find some vendo machines, pose and take snappy shots hehehe

[SharkyMcShark]

After spending the afternoon at uni working on finishing off an assignment Word crashes and the document recovery panel refuses to come up. Goodbye 1200 words of work from this afternoon


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