We have been to disney world 4 times in recent memory. We are not experts in any sense of the word, but we do know a few things.
We helped a (really nasty that i didn't like to begin with) extended 'family' member plan her family's first trip. She texted us her plans (which were awful, she made a ton of stupid mistakes.
you could really tell she had no idea what she was doing) and spent 2 hours looking over them and fixing them for her. when we text her back our response, she did not thank us. All she did was ask a few more questions which we spent even more time answering. Then: silence. No 'thank you', no 'kiss my butt', nothing.
All we asked in return for spending hours of our lives helping her fix her screwed up plans was for her to post lots of pictures of her kids on facebook. That was the only reason we helped her, we like her kids , not her, and wanted them to have a good time. I got nothing from her, other people were talking about seeing tons of pictures, but not me. I didn't see them. Come to find out she blocked me from seeing her stuff. Which is bad enough.
But then, the next time we saw her and the other people who went with her on the trip, not only did she again not thank us for helping her the others confirmed that she really had no idea what she was doing and about a specific instance where she led them on a walk that took 1 hour to their destination, when they could have taken a fifteen minute ferry boat ride instead (which, surprise! she didn't tell us about that particular plan, and we could have told her that).
and now checking facebook today, drumroll please. She's starting a small business planning disney trips for people. She's been a grand total of 1 times, we helped her out the wazoo with no pay or even a thank you and pretty much saved her trip; and she now considers
herself an expert. On the one hand this is completely hilarious. on the other hand I feel like I've been slapped in the face.
pardon my rant. I needed to get that off my chest. I'm so sick of people using me and taking advantage of me.