Your family decides to go to the beach, or drive across the country. They tell you about all the sights to see and all the places you will be visiting. They get you pumped to go on the trip and you're thinking about it all day and night until the morning of the trip. Then, you realize that they forgot to tell you about one thing: the ride there. You then reconsider if you are actually excited to begin the family trip.
1. Mom always over packs
Because she always wants to be prepared for every possible situation, your mom probably stuffs the trunk with a bunch of unnecessary items that end up overflowing the car. In addition to the suitcases, mom adds a variety of pots, spices, bedsheets, and maybe a surfboard, because who knows when you might need it? Even worse, the door won't close because of the overabundance of items stuffed in trash bags, so you and your siblings end up in the back seat in awkward positions because some of those things had to be moved to your seat. Imagine being uncomfortably imprisoned in a car with a copious amount of items and a handful of noisy monkeys.
2. Fights
The worst place to start a fight is in a car. With that small amount of space available, you could get into all kinds of accidents. When you fight with your sibling and are sitting on opposite sides of the car flailing your arms, things can get really messy. The close-range arguments can lead to a few bruises and scars, but things get REALLY bad when the married couple sitting upfront start arguing. Usually one of them brings up a tentative topic, and the situation just gets worse from there. Especially because one of them is the driver, these married-couple fights should be stopped and finished another time. You can even go as far as parking next to the highway and arguing instead of risking a car crash.
3. Boredom
After doing all the things you planned to do (listen to music, go on your phone and sleep), there's really nothing else fun to look forward to, so you can spend the rest of the car ride staring at the trees. You get extremely restless after sitting in the same place for hours, but there's nothing for you to do. This frustrating experience is the worst you will ever experience in a car trip. You start counting the number of minutes the GPS claims is left over and compare it to the time that has passed, just to see if your car is going slower or faster than the GPS predicts.
4. The urge to pee
You can be very comfortably enjoying your freedom to do nothing in the midst of your bags when your bladder suddenly notifies your brain that you might have to tell your parents that you need to pee. You hold it in for about an hour until you really HAVE to go, but you don't want to bother everyone. With your conflicted thoughts, you save your complaints until the last minute and your family blames you for not going earlier. What a great day.
