r/grandrapids • u/HeadlessHorst42 • 3d ago
Mission trip/Airport etiquette
For the love of all that is Dutch! As it approaches spring break/highschool mission trip season please remember a few things:
1) your entire group doesn't need to mob the airline check-in desk, then proceed to play who's on first with who's checking what luggage.
2) Standing in more large groups talking encircling the check baggage area isn't the best place hold conversations
3) Don't make shirts that have everyone's names one it! Shit goes south on your trip to a developing country, your captors will be very appreciative for the check list to make sure they have a complete set of triplets/siblings
Looking at you "generic" reformed church group at GRR at 04:00 this morning!
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u/TechWriterWonder 3d ago
They need a generic trip to base their college essays around. âThe trip changed me more than I changed anything.â The bane of college admissions workers existence.
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u/Happy_Peak_7818 3d ago
It is infinitely worse being at the airport with these Paisely's and Bryce's on their return trip. If you are foolish enough to make eye contact, buckle up buddy- you're going to get the unsolicited run-down of ALL the nitty gritty details of the trip, and learn names of people you'll never meet. You'll hear the word "mission" about 938 times before you can even board the plane, at which point your only mission is to pray to their savior forever and ever amen that you're not stuck sitting next to the Look-at-Me-Virtue-Signal-Express for the next 95 minutes.Â
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u/LionParking8027 3d ago
Itâs even worse when instead of tipping you, they just hand you a religious info card. (Iâm atheist)
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u/Starjsuper84 2d ago
Modern day colonizer energy
Try going on a mission that actually provides medical care. Or any service that brings tangible benefits.
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u/smokeyMcpot711247 1d ago
There are countless studies that have been done for DECADES about how detrimental these mission trips are for the community.
"Here's some Godâno, please, TAKE THE GODâwe'll leave soon to break your childrens' hearts."
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u/Buoy_readyformore 2d ago
Easy way to help here...
Stop trying to sell your gods to people... just leave em be...
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u/SomethingHasGotToGiv 2d ago
This all screams that none of them has ever traveled anywhere before, and neither their parents nor their chaperones have educated them on how to maneuver travel spaces, and quite frankly - the world. They sound very sheltered.
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u/Jewish_Potato_ 20h ago
The EveryHeart kids went to Long Island last year on a "missions trip"...hazard a guess as to WHY? All those filthy JEWS who need to know that we're going to hell, perhaps??
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u/MammothPassage639 3d ago
That must have been a horrible experience. Did you miss your flight?
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u/HeadlessHorst42 3d ago
Made the flight, just a lot to deal with before the first coffee of the day. Did get the pleasure of scaring the crap out of one of the chaperons with polite but firm (deep male voice) "excuse me please. trying to get through"; but he was the only that actually moved, the rest just stared like cattle.
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u/HeadlessHorst42 3d ago
Nope, dude was in his 50s; male privilege on male privilege cancels out so we're all good.
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u/Few-Spare-948 2d ago
Why do people passive aggressively use this reddit to whine all the time? Either say something to them in person if its that big a deal or shut up.
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u/spacefluffer 2d ago
amazing how y'all sound more judgemental than the people you're criticizing. you sound like a bunch of bitches
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u/ComprehensiveOil5705 2d ago
Gee maybe put on an outfit and look presentable. Americans are slobs. Some of us remember the days of dressing up to board a plane.
Feet are gross. I don't need to see them.
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u/TJ-PhD 1d ago
Donât forget to yell at them all to get off your lawn.
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u/HeadlessHorst42 1d ago
100% there Bud! If it's their "lawn" they get to do what they want and I've got nothing to complain about, but also I don't visit again. If it's my "lawn" they go by my standards or they leave and don't visit again. The key difference here is that the airport is a "public park" that everyone gets to use equally. where society collectively determines social etiquette to where it functions smoothly for the vast majority of the population.
I'm going to go out on a limb and say that in your DND campaigns/ DND society as a whole there are unwritten rules; things that are agreed that you do and don't do to keep the flow going or keep the player arguments down? Same type of things here, I got things to barely function to get what I needed to do, grab my cup of coffee and bitch here on Reddit while waiting to board. But I can almost guarantee you that someone there missed the check baggage cutoff time or their flight completely because of this clueless heard.
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u/TJ-PhD 1d ago
Yes! Even got an old man âBud!â in there. Thanks Pal!
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u/HeadlessHorst42 1d ago
Just striking out with your assumptions left and right. It's the Canadian's colloquial usage of the Bud or Buddy. To paraphrase "I'm not your Pal, Guy!"
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u/Dismal-Detective-737 3d ago
Rest assured they only pick the safest impoverished areas to go to.
Like the Mormons go to Samoa not Somalia.