Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr...girl needs to vent.
So, I'm TAing a field course next month, which means I'm basically in charge of keeping the lead professor organized (the man's brilliant, but the most disorganized man on the planet), making sure everyone is where they need to be, and making sure no one drowns. Simple enough.
One of the students going on the trip is a distance student that lives about a 4 hour drive away. She was trying to figure out how to get down here in order to make the flights to Belize. Seeing as our outgoing flight is a red-eye, and the returning flight is a late-night return, I thought I would be nice and offer the student (whom I have never met, btw) our spare room for the night before we leave and the night we return, so she didn't have to blow money on a hotel.
I get an email this morning informing me that she's arranged her flights. She's flying in Thursday morning - not a big deal, FI can pick her up and she can hang at our place for the day. She then informed me that she had booked her return flight for Tuesday -
four days after we get back. Given that there was no other info (hotel arrangements, etc.), it appears that she's staying with us for four solid days after we get back. I'm also assuming she has no car, so if she wants to go anywhere, she is reliant upon us to take her where she wants/needs to go.
I'm sorry, but I'm seriously annoyed. First of all, it drives me nuts that she just assumed that it's ok to stay with us for four days when that is no way, shape, or form what we offered to her. We've never met this woman, and we opened up our home to her for overnights so she wouldn't have to spend money on a hotel - to assume that an overnight stay can turn into four days is, well, kinda rude. Second, I'm now supposed to entertain, feed, and transport a complete stranger for four days. Third, FI and I were seriously contemplating going out of town to visit friends for Easter Sunday, and I am in no way, shape or form comfortable with leaving a stranger home alone in our home. Lastly, I understand that maybe she wanted to save money on flights, but there's no way in hell that there were no flights being offered between those two cities for
four days, given that they're both popular tourist destinations in FL. Even if, for some reason, there weren't, why can't she drive? It's a four hour drive - I used to live up there, so I did the drive frequently, and it's a easy straight shot on one tank of gas. Certainly less than a plane ticket.
I emailed her back and said that Thursday AM was fine, that FI would pick her up from the airport...I asked her if she was going to need to stay with us the entire post-trip time and would she have a rental car. If she emails back that she was assuming she was staying with us, is it rude of me to tell her that we won't be in town for Easter Sunday and that she needs to find alternate lodging for Sat - Tues?
Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr...so beyond frustrated.
Anyone else feel like venting?
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