Well, this morning my husband got stuck because he closed the front gate last night. he knows this is not a good idea in the freezing cold, but decided to do it anyway. So this morning, leaving for work, the gate opened one foot and then stopped. We had to open the main console, all sorts of red lights on inside of it, unhook it and open it manually, and hope he did not burn out the motor. Just another thing.
@wundayatta @YARNLADY I make all of the travel plans or little would be planned. My husband wants the hotel reserved way inn advance, but everything else, like what to do while in town he is very reluctant to discuss or investigate. I don’t like every minute planned, but if you don’t do some research ahead, I find you wind up missing things you might have wanted to see.
His family does everything by the seat of their pants, even travel, and it is so annoying to me, and worse they think I am a pain in the ass for trying to plan if we will be spending time with them. More frustrating there have been times when we are staying with them, and they will literally be walking out of the house, and say, “are you coming also?” when we had no idea we were invited to go wherever they are going or that they were going somewhere. I find that rude. It feels like they actually don’t want us to go, but they do it to everyone, even their own kids.
@janbb I should have included you with dpworkin in my original question :). I would say 99.8% of Ashkenazi Jews will answer they are not surprised, and have back up plans. I’m not so sure about the Sephardic? My husband’s dad is Sephardic and no planning there, but it could be just him. And of course, even people who aren’t Jewish plan for the unexpected.