When Hell Freezes Over
Most of my regular readers are aware of the fact that I am a travel agent. I specialize in planning Disney vacations, cruises, and Caribbean all-inclusive packages.
These are my specialty areas, but I don’t mind planning a trip that might fall outside this list every once in awhile. I planned my friend’s trip to Costa Rica, a tour of Europe, an Alaskan vacation and a few other random places over the years.
There is one type of vacation that I refuse to plan, though. I figured this out after a phone call a few days ago.
Here is how the conversation went down:
Me: How may I help you?
Guy on the phone: Hi, I was hoping you could help me plan a trip to Vegas for my friend’s Bachelor Party.
Me: (stomach in knots, feeling like I want to puke) Um, well, I uh ….I’m more of family travel specialist. I mostly do trips like Walt Disney World. (awkward pause) Would you like me to give you the number of another agent who I know who is a Las Vegas specialist?
Guy on the phone: Ok, sure.
I went on to give him my friend Laurie’s phone number who is a travel agent and obviously not a prude like me.
Now that is how the conversation really went. However, this is what I really wanted to say to him:
Me: How may I help you?
Jackass on the phone: Hi, I was hoping you could help me plan a trip to Vegas for my friend’s Bachelor Party.
Me: Sure, I’d love to help you….WHEN HELL FREEZES OVER!!!!! Sorry, but I will not help you plan your friend’s f*cking Bachelor Party. I can’t even believe you have the audacity to even ask me that. Couldn’t you tell by the sound of my voice that I am anti-Bachelor party and especially anti-Vegas Bachelor Party? No, I do not want any part of your celebration of strippers, hookers, skanks and hos. Sorry. Not going to happen. Not today. Not ever.
I don’t care if the guy wanted to rent the out the entire Bellagio for the month of July and the commission would have been $100K, I would not under any circumstances help them with that request. I just can’t play a part in whatever shenanigans that may or may not go down. It might be a totally innocent trip (but really who are we kidding) but I just can’t take that chance.
So yeah, that whole “What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas” thing? Not on my watch!!
So, what are your feelings on the whole Bachelor Party tradition? If you are married, did your husband have one? Did it involve strippers? Did you have a Bachelorette party? Do you think that the “groom-to-be” is entitled to one last fling on his Bachelor Party? Am I a lunatic (wait don’t answer that I already know that I am) for not helping this guy and losing out on commission?
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I went to my first bachelor party on Friday night. It was horrible. There were no strippers involved, but it was still horrible. I definitely would not have attended if there were pasties and poles involved.
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My husband had a bachelor party and I was totally fine with it. I will tell you the reason why. I knew who was going, what they were going to do, and I TRUSTED my husband. They went to dinner at a brewery, go-cart racing, and then stayed the night at a hotel in San Diego with a couple of coolers full of different drinks. Just talked, played poker, and had fun. We are Christians, and therefore I would have been really offended and wouldn’t have been happy had strippers or skanky hos came and made a presence there!
~Heather
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My DH didn’t have a bachelor party, of course, we didn’t have a wedding either. I just couldn’t deal with ALL that….so it was my choice to skip it all.
However, my best friend’s fiance had a ‘guys weekend’ where they went to the groom’s hometown in SC. My DH, the groom’s soon to be brother in law, and a few high school friends got together and went out. They stayed in one of the guys house and BBQ’d one night, the next night they did go out and have some drinks but no strippers were involved. ((We know this b/c my female COUSIN ran into them up there and she decided to tag along for a little bit and spy hahahaha….but she said they were good boys) Anyways, yes so I’m ok w/ the guys weekend get together but NOT a “last fling”. Why get married if you’re already wanting to get laid by someone else??
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My husband had a bachelor party and it didn’t bother me, I knew where they went, what they were doing, and he was with all his friends that I knew very well. I also had a girls’ night out, so it seemed fair. I certainly do know of some crazy bachelor parties and have heard some insane and horrible stories, so I think I’d have been worried in a case where I didn’t totally trust him.
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We didn’t have any such thing. I am divorced now, but if I were to get remarried, I see no point in it. I do not see much of a point in one in any situation. Like someone mentioned above, if you are getting married, why do you need one last fling?? Trouble if you ask me! YOu did great!
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I had no idea you were a travel agent, and here I am planning to take the fam to Disneyland in 2012. I might have to pick your brain!
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My hubby had a bachelor’s party and yes, they went to a strip club. He got a few lap dances, and then played poker the rest of the night.
I, on the other hand, had two bachelorette parties. I just told my hubby: Anything you can do, I’ll do one better. It gets rid of that double standard.
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My husband’s bachelor party was poker night with the guys. Alcohol and cards. No strippers. My bachelorette party was crafty – making bags to carry stuff to the church the next day and watching 13 Going on 30. We were going to try and choreograph a dance to the Thriller song like in the movie, but it was just way too long. Oh, and went to bed early. Cuz I’m a wuss.
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My husband’s ‘best man’ was a woman, his good friend from acting school. We called her the Attendent of Honor instead of the best man. But she did wear a tux.
Anyway, she and I planned a surprise ‘bachelor party’ for my husband at our apartment. It was just a get-together of both genders – a really great time had by all.
One-last-hurrah with the undesirables doesn’t seem to bode very well for the marriage-to-be, if you ask me.
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My husband… sort of… had a bachelors party. He and his fellow geek friends went hiking and they called it a bachelors party. If you look at it in a “last night as a bachelor doing what he normally does with friends…” kind of way then he did. He’d have been just as uncomfortable with a real bachelors party as I would have been knowing about it. At least that’s what he tells me.
I don’t blame you at all – I don’t think I’d have wanted to plan it either.
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Good for you… integrity comes before the bottom dollar line.
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My husband would NEVER have had a bachelor party, but if he did I would probably be okay with it. For he is far more conservative than I could ever be, so there wouldn’t be strippers. Or probably even alcohol.
Good for you, standing up for your beliefs!!
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I’m cool with a stripper for a bachelor party, even a boys only trip to Vegas, but only if it is just strippin’. A last fling or too much touchey feely with the stripper or any other female gets a big Hell No from me. And honestly, I hope I don’t fall in love with a man who would do that.
The best Bachelor/Bachelorette party I ever went to was a joint one for the bride and groom. We all went out to a friend’s house in the woods and smoked a lot of pot and drank a lot of alcohol. And we all Definately looked like we had done just that for the wedding the next day, hahahaha! it was good times.
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My husband and some of his friends went ot the local “caberet” if you know what I mean. But that was all and not really big deal to me. But as far as the last “fling” thing goes… HELL NO!!!!
And I had a bachelorette party but it just consisted of us girls going out for drinks and food downtown. No strippers, but then my girls knew I was NOT into that kinda thing.
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Hubby’s bachelor party consisted of him and all his friends going to the local strip club…. which is fine with me, big ass bouncers will beat you up while ejecting you from the premesis if you touch a stripper…… and drinking beer. Real exciting, but it’s what he and all his buddies have done each time one has gotten married……. real original, huh???
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Hehehe…yes, hubs had a bachelor party. It involved him wearing an embarassing shirt (his friends got a picture of me hiking, and screened it onto a shirt, with a caption that went something like “this is gonna be my wife!!”) and then took him bowling.
Really shady, aren’t they?
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