{"id":258,"date":"2008-01-17T17:14:48","date_gmt":"2008-01-17T21:14:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2008\/01\/17\/planning-to-travel-with-friends-are-you-sure-thats-wise\/"},"modified":"2010-02-10T17:05:33","modified_gmt":"2010-02-10T21:05:33","slug":"planning-to-travel-with-friends-are-you-sure-thats-wise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2008\/01\/17\/planning-to-travel-with-friends-are-you-sure-thats-wise\/","title":{"rendered":"Planning To Travel With Friends? Are You Sure That&#8217;s Wise?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Years ago I wrote a humorous joint travel contract for the Philadelphia Inquirer. I&#8217;ve been meaning to post it on this blog, but I keep forgetting. And Sunday Scribblings&#8217; post about <a href=\"http:\/\/sundayscribblings.blogspot.com\/2008\/01\/94-fellow-travelers.html\">fellow travelers has prompted<\/a> me to\u00a0finally do it:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Revel With A Clause<\/strong><br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Your closest friends keep badgering you to join them on a trip. You&#8217;re running out of excuses and may be forced to go along. Can friendship survive seven days of constant contact? Will you loathe each other by the time you return?<\/p>\n<p>Joint vacations can be a challenge to any relationship. But with patience, a sense of humor and the help of this agreement, you can take that trip and keep your friendship intact.<\/p>\n<p><strong>AGREEMENT<\/strong> entered into this __________, 20__ by two close couples who would like to remain friends.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WHEREAS,<\/strong> Couples A and B are about to embark on a shared vacation;<\/p>\n<p><strong>WHEREAS,<\/strong> Couple B would rather stay home, but has agreed to give this trip a try;<\/p>\n<p><strong>WHEREAS,<\/strong> Couples want to work out ground rules so their friendship won&#8217;t self-destruct.<\/p>\n<p><strong>NOW, THEREFORE,<\/strong> Couples agree to the following vacation terms:<\/p>\n<p>1. The trip shall commence on a date determined after consulting Couples&#8217; children, employers, and baby-sitters. It shall not involve backpacks or a tent.<\/p>\n<p>2. Once a date has been chosen, Couples shall enter into vacation spot negotiations. The following factors shall be duly considered in the course of site selection:<\/p>\n<p>(a.) Wife A burns if she glances out a window.<\/p>\n<p>(b.) Wife B loves to sprawl out on the beach.<\/p>\n<p>(c.) Husband A considers himself an art aficionado.<\/p>\n<p>(d.) Husband B admires prints of large-eyed tots. &#8230;\u00a0(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/revelwithaclause.html\">Revel With A Clause is continued here.<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Years ago I wrote a humorous joint travel contract for the Philadelphia Inquirer. I&#8217;ve been meaning to post it on this blog, but I keep forgetting. And Sunday Scribblings&#8217; post about fellow travelers has prompted me to\u00a0finally do it:\u00a0 Revel With A Clause By Madeleine Begun Kane\u00a0 Your closest friends keep badgering you to join [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[109,78,10,26,6,34],"tags":[1053,1052,4905,4928],"class_list":["post-258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-friendship-humor","category-humor-columns","category-legal-humor","category-satirical-contracts","category-travel-humor","category-vacation-humor","tag-friendship-humor-column","tag-humorous-traveling-contract","tag-travel-humor","tag-vacation-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1482,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258\/revisions\/1482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}