Disney parks price out the middle class

[Manifestor_of_Light]

180. That's interesting.

I wonder about the reasons people had for not going on vacations. Lack of money, deliberate isolation, fear of the unknown, thinking vacations were "frivolous" or "for rich people", conflict with relatives on vacations?

My dad argued with my grandmother on a vacation they took in 1957 to Colorado. My first memory is of sitting on a rocking horse at Carlsbad Caverns where they baby sat because the adults wouldn't take me with them down in the cave, because they just couldn't handle having to pick me up and carry me if I couldn't walk the entire two miles.

Because of that conflict, my parents did not take another vacation for 29 years, and finally took a trip on a jet for the first time in 1986. Neither of them had been on a jet before, and neither had been in an airplane since World War II.

My grandparents were pretty bad about being bossy and telling me I was lazy for not doing chores. The grandma made up chores we were supposed to do and cooking we were supposed to do which was unnecessary. My grandmother made up that we had to get up early and start cooking and scurrying around the kitchen. I had an aunt in Ohio that I didn't even meet until the 1980s because my dad refused to talk to her for FIFTY YEARS. That broke my heart.

Nutty relatives. The gift that keeps on giving.....Post Traumatic Stress.