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[which_chick]

Well, the boy's graduated from high school. That was this evening, moved from outside to inside due to inclement weather. I did not attend.



The pre-vacation process includes lots of advice. Unfortunately, all that advice makes me wonder if everyone I know thinks I'm incapable of remedial life skills.

Make sure your luggage fits the carry-on requirements
Make sure you have decent clothing or they'll treat you like shit
Make sure you don't carry all your money in one place
Make sure you have copies of your passports
You DO know that you have to be there two hours in advance for international flights, right?
Make sure you don't take anything valuable (other than the cash money and credit cards and passport, I guess)
Make sure you have flip-flops for the shower.
Make sure you have a jacket
Make sure you pack a towel
You DO know that the hostel rooms are co-ed, right?
Make sure you have money for food
Make sure you have bandaids/sunscreen/aspirin
Make sure you have enough money to get home
Make sure you don't pack any TSA-prohibited items
You DO know that the electric is different over there, right?
Make sure ... Oh, hell, we think you're too fucking dumb to manage this. You're heading straight into disaster, damn your eyes!

Disaster, ho! Hooray! Now, if you'll excuse me, I need to go doublecheck my luggage against the packing list, do the last of the dishes, write cat instructions for La, and load up the car so that I don't have to do it tomorrow morning.

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[not-your-real.livejournal.com]

At least some of those "helpful" items are things that they ran afoul of themselves. So what they're really alleging is that they think you may not be smarter than them.

You are still free to take offense, of course :)