`Are we there yet?
Can I have an ice-cream?
I think I am going to be sick.
Ma, Molly is pinching me.`
Molly starts crying.
`Ma he punched me`
`Shut up you two and behave.`
`Can I have a new bucket and spade
when we get there,
and one of those yellow sail-boats?`
`Why don`t you two play I spy?
(Arrives at holiday destination,
patient father unpacks)
`Ma, can I go and play on the beach?
`No its raining.`
`But there`s nothing to do.`
Starts bawling.
A contest entry
- THE GREAT INTERNATIONAL PASTIME: Family Vacation Arguments!! by Melodies.
475 points, ended August 28, 2007, 8 entries
Bronze trophy winner
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Just like my own family before they were killed in a car crash.
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Oh the days of the sibling squabbles!
Hi Williamstown! I have missed seeing you around and was thinking of you as the old Scottish Samhain comes round again this year.
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A family vacation is definately a universal calamity, lol. I believe the problems of it, and the childrens complaints are the same throughout the world, as you have so wonderfully told. great job with this and congratulations on the trophy.
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heheh! It's been a while since those days with my children. It's their turn now, as I've moved into the arena of great grandmother.
Can't say as I miss the haranging, though. I can't run fast enough to chase any of the young ones anymore.
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This brings back memories of my sister and me - we were always fighting, luckily best of friends now. A funny poem, very true to life even with today's modern lifestyles.
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I have this theory about vacations...
AND your very fine and funny poem carries out my theory, which is that vacations are so horrible, you feel so happy to come home, you appreciate your ordinary life a million times more.
HAHAHAHAHA!!! 
Thank you for this most humorous poem that made me smile! 
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