I am back home, poorer and blacker lunged
Mar. 21st, 2005 11:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chelelevIf I do this trip again, it will do it without having to share a room. I don't share well, I will admit but I do try and make the best of it. One of our traveling group is such a whiner, complainer and a major drunk (I didn't know how bad she was). Back in November she had gone to this quack about getting her teeth fixed. They got pulled the Monday before Thanksgiving and she has been complaining since. She is still having work done so has a lower partial and a plate for the tops. Still can not eat (well, really chooses not too and just drinks her meals). But, every meal, we had to hear about all that she couldn't eat. Every meal (um, don't go if you know you can't eat, duh). She makes the choice to whine over it and not seek out food that she can eat (mashed potatoes, milk shakes, ice cream, oatmeal, mac and cheese, etc.). And, tells everyone that she can't eat. We had a tea while there. She announced she had just paid 7.00 for a glass of iced tea since she couldn't eat anything there. Then she took out the lower partial. Jesus, Mary and Joseph. She had taken both out at the restaurant Thursday night too. That was attractive.
I finally got so tired of her whining and the drinking. Granted I was holding my own there but I didn't wake up one morning and go Oh, a drink I didn't drink and proceed to drink it. The morning we left, she had already had a least one or two before we left (this is at 5 am).
I just began to avoid her, I went off on my own to different casinos and stayed out very late. I got in at 2 or so and the room seemed hot but I didn't want to disturb her so didn't really explore why it was hot. I couldn't get to sleep until around 5 am and was up at 8:30. Then she woke up and told me to turn off the heat. No wonder. I could hardly stand it to get dressed and leave for Mass. When I got back, it was about 20 minutes until check out. My room key didn't work, I knocked and knocked but no answer so had to run back to the front desk (which was about 2 blocks away, this hotel was long) and then when I get back (moving quickly), she is suddenly in the room. Miss Hard of Hearing when it suits her managed to hear me quietly bitching about her in the hall.
She decided that she was going to discuss it just when the plane was landing and I told her this was not the time or the place to have this discussion. She asked when, I told her I didn't know. She kept talking, I told her 2 more times that I would not discuss it know and finally had to say what part of I'm not talking about it now do you not understand?
I might add that she was clutching her mini bottle on the plane waiting for the soda service like it was a flotation device.
She is a functioning alcoholic, I recognize it from my father's illness. My father did most of his drinking at home and was never visually drunk. He was a sipper, she is a tossing back drinker.
The upside is that I really didn't miss Mark's snoring. She made 2 times the noises he makes.
Did have fun playing slots and black jack. Did not like the smoke (the other casinos were less smokey than where we were staying). Had a Basque dinner (seems to be a large population of Basques in the Elko area), it was very good and so much food. Not quite sure why they serve spaghetti and french fries together as a side dish.
I finally got so tired of her whining and the drinking. Granted I was holding my own there but I didn't wake up one morning and go Oh, a drink I didn't drink and proceed to drink it. The morning we left, she had already had a least one or two before we left (this is at 5 am).
I just began to avoid her, I went off on my own to different casinos and stayed out very late. I got in at 2 or so and the room seemed hot but I didn't want to disturb her so didn't really explore why it was hot. I couldn't get to sleep until around 5 am and was up at 8:30. Then she woke up and told me to turn off the heat. No wonder. I could hardly stand it to get dressed and leave for Mass. When I got back, it was about 20 minutes until check out. My room key didn't work, I knocked and knocked but no answer so had to run back to the front desk (which was about 2 blocks away, this hotel was long) and then when I get back (moving quickly), she is suddenly in the room. Miss Hard of Hearing when it suits her managed to hear me quietly bitching about her in the hall.
She decided that she was going to discuss it just when the plane was landing and I told her this was not the time or the place to have this discussion. She asked when, I told her I didn't know. She kept talking, I told her 2 more times that I would not discuss it know and finally had to say what part of I'm not talking about it now do you not understand?
I might add that she was clutching her mini bottle on the plane waiting for the soda service like it was a flotation device.
She is a functioning alcoholic, I recognize it from my father's illness. My father did most of his drinking at home and was never visually drunk. He was a sipper, she is a tossing back drinker.
The upside is that I really didn't miss Mark's snoring. She made 2 times the noises he makes.
Did have fun playing slots and black jack. Did not like the smoke (the other casinos were less smokey than where we were staying). Had a Basque dinner (seems to be a large population of Basques in the Elko area), it was very good and so much food. Not quite sure why they serve spaghetti and french fries together as a side dish.
