My Family Excluded Me from Vacation So I Could Babysit Their Children – I Taught Them a Good Lesson

My Aunt Carol’s retirement party was supposed to be a big deal — a fancy cruise to Hawaii with the whole family. It sounded amazing, right? Except for one thing: I wasn’t invited.

Turns out, my family had been planning everything on Facebook, something I’d stopped using a while ago for some peace and quiet. Little did I know, while I was enjoying the calm, I was also being left out.

I only found out when I asked my sister about getting Aunt Carol a gift.

“Should I get her something?” I asked.

“Yeah, grab her something. We’ll give it to her on the cruise,” she said, like it was nothing.

“Wait, what? A cruise!? I wasn’t even invited!” My heart sank.

“Oh, we just figured you’d stay home to watch our kids…”

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