Family HolidaysBack in the 80s when my Dad got made redundant (hello Dad!), he spent all the redundancy money on one of those big motor caravans.
Us kids loved it, apart from when my sister threw up on my sleeping bag, but looking back I'm not so sure my mum did. There was a certain tension every time the big van was even mentioned, let alone driven around France for weeks on end with her still having to cook and do all the washing.
What went wrong, what went right, and how did you survive the shame of having your family with you as a teenager?
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chthonic, Thu 2 Aug 2007, 14:33)
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its more the car journeys thereI was usually on sick bucket watch as my parents did not trust my younger sister with this duty and my other sister claimed scooping toddler vomit or catching it in a bucket made her feel nauseous. wouldn't it anyone???
Of course, i found nothing better than having to hold a container full of purple sick for several hours because some fool has given my brother a bottle of ribena and sweets before/during a car journey. at least I had plenty of warning as he would start screaming and sobbing whenever he felt he might be sick. and he would always throw up if he fell asleep. there's never any guarantee that it will actually go into the bucket. what is the most amazing thing in all of this is how long it took my parents to work out that my brother had travel sickness and find him the right pills.
im pretty glad i dont have to do this anymore
(, Fri 3 Aug 2007, 23:57, Reply)
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