By leonieNL - 12/08/2010 14:50 - Netherlands

Today, I got back from a 3 and a half week trip to South Africa to do volunteer work with children in townships. My parents forgot to pick me up, and I had to sit there by myself and wait for them, while 80 people of the same organization got loving hugs from their proud parents. FML
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fadingaway 17

That sucks. Props for helping out the poor kids here. I think it's funny how some people assume that everyone from South Africa is poor and lives in a shack. Yes there are a lot ot people like that, but S.A is mainly cities. I'm white, born and raised and living in a city in S.A. Nothing third world African poverty about it. So everyone who says YDI for coming here can die in a hole. I admire you for coming this far to help out the less fortunate, and your parents will someday admire you too.

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tigercoon 12

I'm sorry OP. I kinda know how that feels.

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UpYoursInAdvance 0

Well look at the bright side you did something good for someone and the world could use more people like you so everyone else stfu cause I'm sure you wouldn't want to be stuck somewhere that you were unfamiliar with...

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numnut 3

Just admit it you are SO grateful you were born in a first world country.......

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SupremeO 0

Maybe you shouldn't be doing it for parental approval.

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UpYoursInAdvance 0

Hopefully all of you assholes that are saying "well too bad" or "suck it up" and shit like that need to open your pretty little ******* eyes to the world and start smelling your own shit because you little ****** hide behind materialistic things and think that life is oh so good until yours is ****** up, well we'll just have to see how you handle a ****** up life and let's see you "get over it"

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hoho501 0

quit complaining some people don't even have parents

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sallen0046 4

While that is unfortunate, you make it sound like your parents should do absolutely nothing but sit around anxiously awaiting your return. Do you have any idea how easy it is to mix up return days when you a) have to wait nearly a month and b) the person you're picking up is coming from somewhere it possibly is another day? Parents have things to worry about other than their children, you know.

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ShadowPunkChick 1

I do agree that its easy to mix up dates and what not but children should always be a first priority for the parents, they should have gotten things figured out ahead of time and OP should have called in between airports (since they most likely had to stop at least once) to tell her parents if her arrival was still expected to be on time or not. It's one thing if the parents were a little late but the OP didn't specify how long she had to wait to be picked up. Anything longer than an hour would be a **** up on the parents and that just seems irresponsible to me. Unless the OP is 18 or older than it isn't really the parents' responsibility anymore, but still if they said they would be there, they should have been there..

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