It makes me mad when I agree to something that isn't exactly what was told
By margeryann
@margeryann (1845)
United States
February 9, 2011 9:59pm CST
My husband's family has been having a family reunion every year for a while know.It has been at the same park for the past probably 3 years now and it last for half of the day then everyone lives and goes home.
One of his family members asked if we would be alright with it being at a certain lake this year. We said yes.
Well, we see on a social site her telling one of the family members that everyone agreed to rent a cabin at a lake for 3 days and all of us will camp out in it and she gave the details of where it was.
I looked it up online and it doesn't hold very much people and my husband and I weren't very happy because we didn't agree to that . We agreed to just changing the location of where the reunion was going to be not camping in a cabin that doesn't hold much people and have 30 people or more camp in it together.
We had to tell her that we don't know about all of that and we won't do that.
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@daeckardt (6237)
• United States
10 Feb 11
I can't believe that they would tell you that you were going to camp in a cabin that didn't hold the number of people that were going to be there. I could see it if there were campsites nearby, but I can't see trying to cram into a cabin. I'm wondering if she didn't tell the whole story anywhere else along the line. I would be asking her if that is what she meant or if there were campsites near the cabin as well. Or were there more than one cabin involved. It sounds like she needs to get her act together. Good luck with this!
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@margeryann (1845)
• United States
10 Feb 11
Thank you for commenting. She didn't explain that she wanted us all to camp out for the weekend when she asked us she just mentioned the location of the reunion.She is one that doesn't think about common sense sometimes. LOL.
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@daeckardt (6237)
• United States
10 Feb 11
Have you talked to any of the others? Do they feel the same way? I think you are right about her lacking common sense. Have a great day!
@margeryann (1845)
• United States
16 Sep 11
Not that long a go my husbands brother told everyone that it is going to be where it usually is and it is going to be like it usually is so other people must have not liked that idea either thank goodness and it is going to be the first of October so it is going to be a lot cooler too.
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@JJ4Ever (4693)
• United States
10 Feb 11
I can't stand that either. It's like someone put words in my mouth, and it wasn't something I said. I don't like when something isn't what it's made to look like. My family would do that a lot. I got burned so many times that I had to finally ask a million questions before agreeing to anything. My grandparents in particular would always put stipulations on things. Yes, they were going to "give" me this money, but then I had to pay it back in five years. Then they weren't giving it to me after all! What it really was, was a loan (and probably with interest)! It seems like a lot of things are like this. On TV you see this great deal, but upon reading the fine print, it's something totally different. I don't think that's good marketing or a good way to have a family reunion. Great discussion and thanks for letting me vent about that for a second - lol! Take care.
@JJ4Ever (4693)
• United States
10 Feb 11
That's exactly how it goes! Or they start by saying it's only $30...yes, only THREE payments of $30, and then the products is yours. What a rip off! lol And on those informercials, they use the smallest font possible to make sure you can't read it. It always pays to do a little research nowadays, though. By the way, I really hope your family reunion will work out for you in the end. Have a great day!
@margeryann (1845)
• United States
16 Sep 11
Actually our family reunion is going to be the first of October and it is going to be like it usually is and where it has been. The others must have not liked that idea either.Thank you for commenting back. I hope you are having a wonderful weekend!
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@margeryann (1845)
• United States
10 Feb 11
Thank you for commenting .It does happen a lot in life. The commercials this cost only $30. You look real close and it says for 30 days and it doesn't say what the price will be if you decide that you want it after 30 days.
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@KrauseHome (36447)
• United States
16 Sep 11
I personally do not blame you with this one. I would be a little leary of being in a cabin the whole time with a whole bunch of other people. Especially when people have volunteered you of your money, etc. and it is a place where everyone will feel crowded in. Personally I could not do it either. It would be the easiest way to get a lot of fights going and that is not good for sure.
@margeryann (1845)
• United States
16 Sep 11
I know that is what we were afraid of is the over crowding and not enough room and pay for it and not even be able to stay there because of all the places having someone else sleeping there etc.It didn't sound very nice. Actually my husbands brother made plans to stay the way they have been and have it at a park on October 1, which will be nice because it will be cooler.
@bunnybon7 (50973)
• Holiday, Florida
10 Feb 11
my family also has one in Ohio every yr. like in June or July. I have an aunt and a cousin that always arranges it. the past few yrs. they've had it at a park also. but, when i traveled all the way there to go it was so hard to find that several of us from out of town was late. 
so now they have started including a map on the invite
but im unable to go now. i guess you just will go and spend long enough to eat together and visit and go home
thats what ours always do anyway. its pretty bad when someone not real sensible ends up making the arrangements. geesh.
so now they have started including a map on the invite but im unable to go now. i guess you just will go and spend long enough to eat together and visit and go home thats what ours always do anyway. its pretty bad when someone not real sensible ends up making the arrangements. geesh. @margeryann (1845)
• United States
11 Feb 11
Thank you for commenting. It can be very frustrating at times when things aren't thought out very good to make things better for everyone.
@margeryann (1845)
• United States
12 Feb 11
He wrote her in the area where she said that she told everyone about it. He told her that wasn't what he agreed too and if she would've told him about that he wouldn't of agreed with that. He told her that all she told him was changing where it was located it .She didn't reply to him so I don't know.
@sender621 (14893)
• United States
10 Feb 11
I can certainly become agitated when i find i have agreed to something that isn't right. It can make you look like you don't know what you are doing. that is not a feeling i like to have. When i agree to something, I expect things not to change in the middle. that is annoying.@margeryann (1845)
• United States
11 Feb 11
Thank you for commenting. It is upsetting when that happens. It makes you feel like they are just thinking of themselves sometimes.
@hardworkinggurl (37063)
• United States
10 Feb 11
Yes that is not not right for her to do as imagine all 30 people for 30 days in tight quarters. This is suppose to be memorable and not in a bad way. I do not blame you for being upset as the least she could have done was ask first. From the sounds of your discussion it sounds like she is not suggesting but saying this is what you all will be doing.
@margeryann (1845)
• United States
10 Feb 11
The way she asked up it sounded like it was going to be like normal and us just hang out for half of a day not camp out for the weekend together and then have it on a social site that everyone agreed to camping out for the weekend in a cabin together. On the website the cabins only have one queen size bed, one couch that turns in to a bed and that's all. It really isn't even about the size of the cabin as much as it is that we weren't even told that we were camping and then us see it on the social site that everyone agreed to camping out. Thank you for commenting.
@Kalyni2011 (3496)
• India
10 Feb 11
If i were in your place i too would have gone mad, one just can't impose things over others, how can so many persons be packed to a small cabin, it would be not only uncomfortable, but there won't be any privacy either, you are right friend, thanks for telling..
kalyani
@margeryann (1845)
• United States
10 Feb 11
Thank you for commenting. I think she wasn't thinking about how big it was and how it would work for so much people. She was just thinking of the fun of it but she should of told us the details that's what was so maddening and saying that everyone agreed to the cabin situation when that isn't what she told us.She needs to explain things better. This person doesn't have much common since when it comes to things.
