I could scream.
Jan. 3rd, 2018 07:59 pmSo every year the NY Homeschoolers group (NYCHEA) has a group buy for six ski trips. And this year, with just Eva, I found the money to go. Except there's no train or bus that runs there, really, so I'd have to carpool.
You understand I wanted to set this up before I shelled out $250, but the person who handles organization said that oh no, everybody does that after they pay. So, reluctantly, I paid up.
If everybody organizes it, then everybody is leaving me out of their organizational loop, and nobody replied when I sent out a group email to people who have signed up for the trip OR when I posted to the general mailing list. So it's looking like we'll miss the first trip, which is Thursday, and it sucks and I am not happy.
At their website it does suggest I could catch a bus from Port Authority... but that's fully $85 a ticket. That's more than half the cost of the entire ski package right there, burned on getting there and back once. I can't do that.
You understand I wanted to set this up before I shelled out $250, but the person who handles organization said that oh no, everybody does that after they pay. So, reluctantly, I paid up.
If everybody organizes it, then everybody is leaving me out of their organizational loop, and nobody replied when I sent out a group email to people who have signed up for the trip OR when I posted to the general mailing list. So it's looking like we'll miss the first trip, which is Thursday, and it sucks and I am not happy.
At their website it does suggest I could catch a bus from Port Authority... but that's fully $85 a ticket. That's more than half the cost of the entire ski package right there, burned on getting there and back once. I can't do that.
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Date: 2018-01-03 01:24 am (UTC)(Sounds like they ought to arrange a bus, which is a lot more normal than everybody improvising carpools. My local Parks & Rec runs a ski bus every year.)
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Date: 2018-01-03 01:47 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-01-03 03:20 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-01-03 03:27 am (UTC)Well, today's mailing list digest was just delivered to my email, so maybe I'll have a last minute offer. I did get one reply... but they started off with "can you drive?" which makes me think they can't drive either!
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Date: 2018-01-04 12:56 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-01-04 03:42 am (UTC)The first ski session is postponed now due to weather, so I'll try again this week for the next one.
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Date: 2018-01-04 01:59 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-01-04 03:53 am (UTC)