CarpeDisney
Mouseketeer
- Joined
- Nov 6, 2007
I can definitely believe this, and can relate to it.
We've owned DVC for just about 3 years now. On each of the three annual trips we've taken, we've invited different sets of relatives (my mother on one trip, mother-in-law and father-in-law on another, and one with brother-in-law, his fiancee and her 2 kids) with us to let us all experience things together.
The most recent trip to BLT we (me, DW, and 2 DDs) invited my mother-in-law and father-in-law along to have a great vacation with their grand daughters, and for the kids to have a great memory of their grandparents.
About a month before our trip I receive a TEXT message from my brother-in-law's fiancee (took her and her family with us on the previous year's trip) that read "Just found out I have some vacation time coming. Have room for me and my daughter to join you in the two bedroom, right?"
I just about dropped when I got it. The audacity to 1) ask to join when not ever approached about the trip, and more so 2) to do it VIA A TEXT MESSAGE was unbelievable (especially since we rarely communicate with each other anyway).
So, I figured if she didn't have the common courtesy to pick up the phone and call (nor the common courtesy to NOT invite herself along) I figured she deserved just as much courtesy from me.
Simple (text) response from me: "No"
....was the last time she ever mentioned it or asked about future Disney trips.
Don't get me wrong, my wife and I are all about sharing what we have with those around us, but this situation was completely ridiculous.
We've owned DVC for just about 3 years now. On each of the three annual trips we've taken, we've invited different sets of relatives (my mother on one trip, mother-in-law and father-in-law on another, and one with brother-in-law, his fiancee and her 2 kids) with us to let us all experience things together.
The most recent trip to BLT we (me, DW, and 2 DDs) invited my mother-in-law and father-in-law along to have a great vacation with their grand daughters, and for the kids to have a great memory of their grandparents.
About a month before our trip I receive a TEXT message from my brother-in-law's fiancee (took her and her family with us on the previous year's trip) that read "Just found out I have some vacation time coming. Have room for me and my daughter to join you in the two bedroom, right?"
I just about dropped when I got it. The audacity to 1) ask to join when not ever approached about the trip, and more so 2) to do it VIA A TEXT MESSAGE was unbelievable (especially since we rarely communicate with each other anyway).
So, I figured if she didn't have the common courtesy to pick up the phone and call (nor the common courtesy to NOT invite herself along) I figured she deserved just as much courtesy from me.
Simple (text) response from me: "No"
....was the last time she ever mentioned it or asked about future Disney trips.
Don't get me wrong, my wife and I are all about sharing what we have with those around us, but this situation was completely ridiculous.