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ever go on holidays with parent(s)

  • 29-07-2013 11:30PM
    #1
    cena
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,395 ✭✭✭✭


    Have you gone on holidays with your parent(s) while in your twenties and older.
    Did you enjoy it?



    I brought my mother to NEW York for her 50th. It was a great holiday just to get away and to see family.


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  • #2
    Tim the Enchanter
    Closed Accounts Posts: 309 ✭✭Tim the Enchanter


    Wtf is it with peoples spelling around here lately? All ho's and everys!!!


  • #3
    MadsL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,299 ✭✭✭✭MadsL


    Holiday with family? What am I, some kind of freakishly normal person???


  • #4
    The Narrator
    Closed Accounts Posts: 423 ✭✭The Narrator


    I went on holidays with my parents once, I was 14.

    They never invited me again...


  • #5
    Ihatecuddles-old
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,785 ✭✭✭Ihatecuddles-old


    I stopped going when I was 16. I started going the last couple of years for my sons sake.

    My parents love it, we love it. Not going this year though.


  • #6
    Frosty McSnowballs
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,396 ✭✭✭Frosty McSnowballs


    Yep,

    I'm sick of airport security insisting thy can the urn though.


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  • #7
    Ruudi_Mentari
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,801 ✭✭✭Ruudi_Mentari


    That's lovely cena. Such a nice gesture but is that not you effectively taking your "parent" on holidays, if anything...

    me I got taken to Aiya Napa.


  • #8
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 26,219 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    cena wrote: »
    Have you gone on holidays with your parent(s) while in your 20's and older.
    Did you enjoy it?



    I brought my mother to NEW York for her 50th. It was a great holiday just to get away and to see family.

    I bet your mum loved that. :)

    I've been on family holidays and had a good time. It all depends on how well you all get along.


  • #9
    Ruudi_Mentari
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,801 ✭✭✭Ruudi_Mentari


    It doesn't really matter who took who, does it but lovely gesture and I'm glad you had the opportunity. Btw that is a young mother, what age are you to be whisking her off like that


  • #10
    nocoverart
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    I think it depends on the gender TBH. Doesn't seem strange if female, or if there's a few siblings. I don't know what possessed me but I ended up on holiday with my folks in my early 20's (male) definitely felt a "look at that mammy's boy" vibe. Looking back now, I'm glad I spent some quality time with them though... and it was free.


  • #11
    SV
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,533 ✭✭✭SV


    Never been on holiday with either parent at any age, done holidays on my own since 16 and kinda glad of it


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  • #12
    Sh1tbag OToole
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,971 ✭✭✭Sh1tbag OToole


    i used to but a fair few years ago i stopped going.

    They never really want to do anything while on holidays except sit around and read a book or sit outside some fancy overpriced restaurant sipping red wine, horrible stuff by the way and it tastes the same no matter how many thousand you spend on the bottle. I dont see the point in going on holidays if you're not going to explore or use the facilities and do things you can just as easily do at home


    It probably costs over 100e a day to go on holidays, better make use of it. Its as if what they want from a holiday is the exact opposite of what i want


  • #13
    Femme_Fatale
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,628 ✭✭✭Femme_Fatale


    My friend in his 30s brought his dad to Berlin to see war museums and whatnot (his dad's well interested in WWII) and said it was fantastic. I think once it's not just a hanging-around-the-place holiday it could work well.


  • #14
    Ihatecuddles-old
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,785 ✭✭✭Ihatecuddles-old


    nocoverart wrote: »
    I think it depends on the gender TBH. Doesn't seem strange if female, or if there's a few siblings. I don't know what possessed me but I ended up on holiday with my folks in my early 20's (male) definitely felt a "look at that mammy's boy" vibe. Looking back now, I'm glad I spent some quality time with them though... and it was free.

    My brother is mid 30's and he goes with my parents. He pays his own way. But he lives with them too....weird.


  • #15
    cena
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,395 ✭✭✭✭cena


    Ruudi_Mentari wrote: »
    It doesn't really matter who took who, does it but lovely gesture and I'm glad you had the opportunity. Btw that is a young mother, what age are you to be whisking her off like that

    I was 26 than nearly three years ago now. She hadn't been their in 30 years so a lot of the family had there own kids since she was there last.

    We went last year and I sent her off to see a friend she worked with over 30 years ago. She lost contact with them a long time ago and the brother found her on the internet. Give her spending money and all.


  • #16
    Ruudi_Mentari
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,801 ✭✭✭Ruudi_Mentari


    Ihatecuddles wrote: »
    My brother is mid 30's and he goes with my parents. He pays his own way. But he lives with them too....weird.

    Are you sure you thought that through? What's weird is how the economy went tits up from weirdo bankers, forcing a lot people into that predicament.


  • #17
    Miss Lockhart
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,639 ✭✭✭Miss Lockhart


    Yes. I take my mother on holidays every year. Seems like a perfectly normal thing to do to me.


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    [Deleted User]
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    Femme_Fatale wrote: »
    My friend in his 30s brought his dad to Berlin to see war museums and whatnot (his dad's well interested in WWII) and said it was fantastic. I think once it's not just a hanging-around-the-place holiday it could work well.

    Yeah, my family go on skiing holidays so it's something we all have in common and enjoy together.

    Could never do the lying down on a beach day-in-day-out thing, a day or so is okay, more than that and I'd die of boredom.


  • #19
    nocoverart
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    Ihatecuddles wrote: »
    My brother is mid 30's and he goes with my parents. He pays his own way. But he lives with them too....weird.

    Depends where they go, if it were Amsterdam I would say that's pretty fookin cool.


  • #20
    Ihatecuddles-old
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,785 ✭✭✭Ihatecuddles-old


    Ruudi_Mentari wrote: »
    Are you sure you thought that through? What's weird is how the economy went tits up from weirdo bankers, forcing a lot people into that predicament.

    My brother has no money problems. Trust me on that! he admits himself he's just a lazy mammies boy. She does everything for him sure.


  • #21
    Ruudi_Mentari
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,801 ✭✭✭Ruudi_Mentari


    Ihatecuddles wrote: »
    My brother has no money problems. Trust me on that! he admits himself he's just a lazy mammies boy. She does everything for him sure.

    Ah, right yeah.


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  • #22
    Ruudi_Mentari
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,801 ✭✭✭Ruudi_Mentari


    cena wrote: »
    I was 26 than three nearly years ago. She hadn't been there in 30 years so a lot of the family had there own kids since she was there.

    We went last year and I sent her off to see a friend she worked with over 30 years ago. She lost contact with a long time ago and the brother found her on the internet. Give her spending money and all.

    Which made you what; 23? :confused:

    But I fully believe you and I think its fantastic your mother permitted you the capacity to take her to NYC. Real man of the house material instilled in you, fair play.


  • #23
    greenflash
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 499 ✭✭greenflash


    I went away with the in laws last year.

    Never a****ing****tycuntfelchgain.

    Edit: Was expecting a lot more stars


  • #24
    krudler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,788 ✭✭✭✭krudler


    My parents live abroad so visiting them is a mini holiday, a sandwich and tea filled holiday.


  • #25
    cena
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    Ruudi_Mentari wrote: »
    Which made you what; 23? :confused:

    But I fully believe you and I think its fantastic your mother permitted you the capacity to take her to NYC. Real man of the house material instilled in you, fair play.

    No I was 26 than. Be 29 in jan.

    Dad is in a home with alzheimer's


  • #26
    Ruudi_Mentari
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,801 ✭✭✭Ruudi_Mentari


    cena wrote: »
    No I was 26 than. Be 29 in jan

    Ok I believe you so. Just you have a funny way with words, which casts doubts as it appears so insincere but then that's just my grammar nazi-ism!


  • #27
    Love2love
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    Almost all of my holidays are family holidays :) parents, brothers, nieces and nephews ect


  • #28
    cena
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,395 ✭✭✭✭cena


    Ruudi_Mentari wrote: »
    Ok I believe you so. Just you have a funny way with words, which casts doubts as it appears so insincere but then that's just my grammar nazi-ism!

    My grammer is not the best. I well own up to that. But I hate when people point it out.


  • #29
    Ruudi_Mentari
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,801 ✭✭✭Ruudi_Mentari


    Love2love wrote: »
    Almost all of my holidays are family holidays :) parents, brothers, nieces and nephews ect

    Happy Travlun'!


  • #30
    Frosty McSnowballs
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,396 ✭✭✭Frosty McSnowballs


    cena wrote: »
    My grammer is not the best. I well own up to that. But I hate when people point it out.

    Just blame it on auto correct dude....that's what I do.


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  • #31
    krudler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,788 ✭✭✭✭krudler


    Ruudi_Mentari wrote: »
    Ok I believe you so. Just you have a funny way with words, which casts doubts as it appears so insincere but then that's just my grammar nazi-ism!


    I wonder do grammar Nazis die a little inside when they don't capitalise what they refer to themselves as :pac:


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