i love my family... i really do!

So... this weekend i was in Las Vegas... and i had a blast... really i did. Vegas was... well... vegas... and even though i left there a little in the red (about $160), we all had a great time!

There was a proverbial gray cloud however... One of my family members, who does not need to be mentioned ofcourse. Everyone who knows us, they know who this is.

This person just had no regard for anyone around him. Deciding not to hang out with us for the majority of the time, smoking in the "pointed out" non-smoking hotel, and deciding to get so drunk, that he had to be escorted to the hotel room by 4 police officers. He stumbled through the door and proceeded to simply fall onto the ground, and was completely, well... off the wall drunk to the point where he had to be put to bed to sleep it off.

I knew to expect behavior similar to this, that doesn't mean i wanted it. But i just have to say, it really kinda hurts that he chose to not care about the fact that we took my father there for his 70th birthday, and was really all about him. By the end of the trip, my father had a good time, but was annoyed at the behavior of said brother, the room smelled like an ashtray, and he did not spend the entire last day with us, and got very annoyed at the fact that we were not happy about his behavior.

it hurts... but lesson learned...

I do love my family, even the more controversial ones.. i don't expect them to change, but i do expect them to respect each other... including me...


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oh... so... by the way... on a different topic.

I got the room at the Hilton Grand Vacation Club as being part of the Hilton Honors points systems. In return for getting a fairly good deal i had to sit through a presentation for them to sell me timesharing. I sat through their presentation despite not having any interest in purchasing.

I noticed through, throughout their sales pitches, that everything was geared towards heterosexual couples. NOTHING in the pitch about gay people (which i am not surprised at) but nothing, and i mean NOTHING geared to single people. All the images in their movie were (straight) couples and families.

This didn't shock me... as i have stated before, and it didn't offend me per say, but, i did bring this up to my sales person after the pitch, and he was genuinely shocked. I mean... after enduring the question "why hasn't a guy like you found a good girl" and i said... well... because i'm gay...

Once again... he was shocked... but he did thank me for correcting him. first thing: sales people! know your audience...!

I didn't buy, as i wasn't planning, but after the presentation, i decided, it really isn't for me. I am not a heterophobe... but come on... they wanted me to spend $29,000, the least they could have done is showed me a cute single guy in a bathing suit on the beach!

oh well... /rant off