August 8, 2025 • 11 mins
Vacation time is such a break from the hustle and bustle of everyday life, but on the off chance your vacation wasn't living up to the hype we want to hear about it and why? D&M give their best stories and we hear from the Kool 105 listeners as well! Wanna stay connected to the show and follow along with all our stories? Follow us at the Dom with Melissa Facebook page here: Dom With Melissa Facebook Page
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Dumb in the Morning with Melissa Moore, the podcast on
Cool one oh five.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
So on the Mindbender today we were talking about vacations.
It was part of the Mindbender today and something came
up about people going on vacation and not having any fun,
which we were kind of laughing about that because you
know the whole thing, Melissa, the day before your vacation,
you were sky high.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
Oh it's the best day ever.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Even planning it. You know, they say dopamine wise that
planning a vacation is more rewarding to your brain than
actually going on the vacation, which is really interesting.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
Well that's also I think.
Speaker 4 (00:37):
I don't know about you, but I love having something
to look forward to, you bet, having a countdown Now
you can put those countdowns on your phone for vacation,
so there's nothing better.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
But then when you get back.
Speaker 4 (00:48):
And you're like, we didn't really it wasn't what we
wanted it was it was it was It's one of
the worst feelings ever. You just spent time and money
on something and you're like, I don't think we had fun.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Yeah, uh so we were, And it would be funny
to ask you what vacation was the biggest letdown, Like
you were sky high before you went, or at least
you were excited about it, and then it was just like.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
So so right right, I'll go first.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Okay for me, I'm not I don't think I want
to count one particular famous theme park because we might
be doing some more business with them down the road,
so I'm not going to name that. I will say
that there's a vacation that I took to the Midwest.
It was it was a drive to go see some
family stuff like that. But I just want to single
(01:33):
out one thing, the biggest letdown I've ever had on
a vacation. If you've done any driving up through like
Wyoming into South Dakota and stuff like that, you see
the billboards for hundreds of miles that are proclaiming how
your life is going to be changed for the better.
When you stop at a particular drug store. Oh yes,
(01:53):
it's called Wall Drugs. Yes, yes, it's up in the
Dakota's Wall drug And it's like it's got this around it,
and people come from hundreds of miles around to go
to Wall drug So I know, we were in the
car and we're like, you know, we might as well
I mean, why everyone's talking about it.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
Gotta see you can see what all the hype's about.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
Could lord, if you have a chance, don't go. I
don't want to take business from anybody. But that was
the biggest letdown on a vacation. It was just a
grungy little Oh it's gross, gross food. Yes, But the billboards,
(02:35):
the money they spend on billboards.
Speaker 4 (02:37):
Oh, they're marketing because you think to yourself, it has
like it's got to be a diamond in the rough.
There's gotta be something amazing, and then you get there
and yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
So which one are you picking?
Speaker 3 (02:51):
Oh gosh, all right, so here's the deal.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
We've already bashed Wall drug I feel a little bad
about them, Like.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Whatever, they're never gonna hear about it.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
Fine, fine, because now people are going to be like,
you know, I need to see how bad it is.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
It's going to be that lucky lou like I'm just
gonna go see it.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Or I'm going to get all the text messages. I
love wal drug Dom.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
You're an idiot, right, And that's fine too. Everybody's different.
So my worst vacation combined two things that I really
don't like, my ex and camping. And so yes, So
I think I've told you the story that we went
to this camping and r V show. All right, We
go to the camping and URV show and they hand
(03:32):
me the brochure and I was like, good lord, look
at that. That person looks like they're doing yoga outside.
It's beautiful, glorious. It's glorious on the brochure. So we
buy a camper and the first time we pulled into
the RV park, it was a private RV park, which
is part of the problem because people lived.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
There for part of the summer, sure, and so.
Speaker 4 (03:53):
People had these fake deer with bullseye painted on them.
So as we're pulling in, people are firing arrows out
at the fake deer and pop in like PBRs.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
And I was like, where I mean?
Speaker 4 (04:09):
It was like dueling Banjo's music playing in the background
as we're going through here.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Am I never not some wrong with me? All of
this sounds actually like quite a bit of fun. And
shooting arrows at fake deer.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
I guess, all right, let me just but this is
why I told you the brochure. The brochure.
Speaker 4 (04:25):
Where I was going in my mind was to stretch
my yoga mat out and to become one with nature
and sit outside and meditate. And it was skinnered playing
and arrows flying through the air at fake deer. And
then you had people who lived there in the summer
and they had golf carts decorated with Christmas lights and
(04:45):
they were doing wheelies as they were drinking too much.
And I and it was I came back home and
that's when I seriously said sell the RV. And my
ex was like, you're not serious. I'm like, I'm dead serious,
because I don't.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
Have to take it to Redneckville. You can take it places.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
Well, and I probably could have, but he didn't make
it better. So I said, there were two things problem
with that vacation, my ex and the RV. And yeah,
I've gotten rid of both since then.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
Which one were you most glad to get rid of?
Speaker 1 (05:14):
God?
Speaker 3 (05:14):
When the one that cost me the moch of them,
I'll tell.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
You that you you're doing for that. Let's say quick call,
Let's see what Kim's voting for. Kim, what was your
biggest let down with a vacation ever?
Speaker 5 (05:29):
I would say I went to Midland, Texas. I wasn't
excited about going to Midland, Texas. But it was for
a wedding, okay. And we flew in and I'm like,
oh my god, I'm in the middle of nowhere and
I heard you talking about jeweling banjos. Then the minute
I got off the plane, I was terrified. So my
(05:53):
ex boyfriend is in the wedding and I'm not so
Me and a couple of the other people hung back
and we were going to take an uber to the
wedding and the uber driver couldn't speak English and got
the wrong directions and we ended up in the middle
of nowhere, and we had brought shots, and we had
(06:16):
brought some different beer, and I finally had just lost
my mind. And I'm like, they should have paid me
to come here. And that's the driver if I could
start drinking in the vehicle, and he let me, thank God.
And we finally got to the wedding, and we missed
the whole wedding, and we walked in as the bride
(06:39):
and groom were coming out into the reception and then
the best part and I had to clean it up.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Wait gets better this language, so I don't want you
to slip and say something.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
I know.
Speaker 5 (06:56):
Dixon told me I had to clean it up, so
I missed in my wood. So I'm sitting there amongst
all these people who were talking about how they pretty
much wanted to end their lives because they live in Midland,
Texas and all everybody does is drink and do drugs.
And this is my conversation for the whole evening, and
(07:17):
all of a sudden, I hear the DJ make a
horrible comment about the mother of the bride.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
No wow, and.
Speaker 5 (07:28):
A brawl, an absolute brawl breaks out.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Oh I want to be that we made this job?
Speaker 3 (07:37):
Is like, are you kidding me?
Speaker 2 (07:39):
This sounds love to go to a wedding where there's
a brawl.
Speaker 5 (07:43):
I know, And I'm from the Midwest, from a Catholic
family and everybody drinks. And I used to joke all
of our events ended like that. That's kind of when
we knew it was kind to go home when the
police came.
Speaker 4 (07:57):
Oh my god, you are fun, like you would be
fun to hang out.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
I've said that I've always wanted to be at a
I want to be at a wedding where they do
that thing if anyone you know, has reason why these
two should not, and I want to be there when
somebody jumps to their feet, and you know, says I protest.
Speaker 5 (08:12):
Any reason, right, right, so many reasons. I just sat
there and drank myself into oblivion and watch the brawl happen.
I just thought, I'm probably not going to ever get
to go home like that sense of bread. Yes, and
I will never go back.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
I will tell you I've been in the Midland Texas
a few times. I even played some sporting events. I
played ball in the Midlands as the visiting team. I didn't
live there, right right, And they don't want to drink
the water there either. It tastes like oil. It comes
out of the ground and it tastes like it's got
an oily taste of it. Is this where that.
Speaker 4 (08:52):
New show Land man is supposed to be for Midland Texas?
I don't Thornton Show.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
I don't know. Kim, you really entertained this. Thank you
for being I love you, no problem.
Speaker 4 (09:02):
That was a blast.
Speaker 5 (09:03):
I listened to you guys every morning.
Speaker 4 (09:05):
Thank you, Kim.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
Mak you care to you?
Speaker 3 (09:08):
Okay, yeah, Kim, that is hysterical.
Speaker 4 (09:11):
Matt just Texas says, biggest letdown from a vacation, my
full whole family and I run a cruise and we
all got pink eye.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
Oh so bad. Nice. The stories this morning have been
really funny. When we asked what was the biggest letdown
vacation you ever went on? You were excited to go,
and then Kim's call might be the call of the week.
Speaker 4 (09:35):
It was hysterical if you missed it. She went to Midland,
Texas for a wedding and it just hated her life.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
And it has been the seventh level of hell from
the way she described.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
It, right.
Speaker 4 (09:46):
And then we found out a couple of other things
off the air from Kim because we were like, what
in the heck happened to start this big fight? And
she told us the DJ basically called the mother of
the bride a prostitute in a with a different term.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
Yes, so that happened.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
That starts with the word dirty, right right.
Speaker 4 (10:06):
And then the second thing that happened at that wedding
was the bride and groom's drug dealer showed up because
they ran low. I was like, what what I mean
when you hear her? I mean, I was like, I
can't even fathom so funny, And she was like, there
wasn't enough alcohol in the whole state of Texas to
get me through that wedding.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
Yeah, that's so funny. It's a call of the week man.
That's really good. Yeah, Robbie's listening in Denver and we said,
you know what, vacation was the biggest letdown And he says,
the vacation the Navy promised me. That's funny, it's really good.
And then Teresa says, we're on a road trip to California.
We stopped for the night in Nevada. We were leaving
(10:46):
the next morning. We were pulled over by the local
PD because my husband apparently resembled a guy who had
robbed a casino the night before. That's you gonna have
to come with me, sir.
Speaker 4 (11:04):
Yeah, it reminds me of Chevy chasing vacation right.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
Oh my god, you guys make us laugh. Thank you
for driving the bus here. We appreciate you. Running the show.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
John in the Morning with Melissa Moore the podcast on
Cool one oh five. Subscribe now so you never miss
an episode and learn more about the show at Cool
one o five dot com.
Dumb in the Morning with Melissa Moore, the podcast on
Cool one oh five.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
So on the Mindbender today we were talking about vacations.
It was part of the Mindbender today and something came
up about people going on vacation and not having any fun,
which we were kind of laughing about that because you
know the whole thing, Melissa, the day before your vacation,
you were sky high.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
Oh it's the best day ever.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Even planning it. You know, they say dopamine wise that
planning a vacation is more rewarding to your brain than
actually going on the vacation, which is really interesting.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
Well that's also I think.
Speaker 4 (00:37):
I don't know about you, but I love having something
to look forward to, you bet, having a countdown Now
you can put those countdowns on your phone for vacation,
so there's nothing better.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
But then when you get back.
Speaker 4 (00:48):
And you're like, we didn't really it wasn't what we
wanted it was it was it was It's one of
the worst feelings ever. You just spent time and money
on something and you're like, I don't think we had fun.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Yeah, uh so we were, And it would be funny
to ask you what vacation was the biggest letdown, Like
you were sky high before you went, or at least
you were excited about it, and then it was just like.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
So so right right, I'll go first.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Okay for me, I'm not I don't think I want
to count one particular famous theme park because we might
be doing some more business with them down the road,
so I'm not going to name that. I will say
that there's a vacation that I took to the Midwest.
It was it was a drive to go see some
family stuff like that. But I just want to single
(01:33):
out one thing, the biggest letdown I've ever had on
a vacation. If you've done any driving up through like
Wyoming into South Dakota and stuff like that, you see
the billboards for hundreds of miles that are proclaiming how
your life is going to be changed for the better.
When you stop at a particular drug store. Oh yes,
(01:53):
it's called Wall Drugs. Yes, yes, it's up in the
Dakota's Wall drug And it's like it's got this around it,
and people come from hundreds of miles around to go
to Wall drug So I know, we were in the
car and we're like, you know, we might as well
I mean, why everyone's talking about it.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
Gotta see you can see what all the hype's about.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
Could lord, if you have a chance, don't go. I
don't want to take business from anybody. But that was
the biggest letdown on a vacation. It was just a
grungy little Oh it's gross, gross food. Yes, But the billboards,
(02:35):
the money they spend on billboards.
Speaker 4 (02:37):
Oh, they're marketing because you think to yourself, it has
like it's got to be a diamond in the rough.
There's gotta be something amazing, and then you get there
and yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
So which one are you picking?
Speaker 3 (02:51):
Oh gosh, all right, so here's the deal.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
We've already bashed Wall drug I feel a little bad
about them, Like.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Whatever, they're never gonna hear about it.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
Fine, fine, because now people are going to be like,
you know, I need to see how bad it is.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
It's going to be that lucky lou like I'm just
gonna go see it.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Or I'm going to get all the text messages. I
love wal drug Dom.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
You're an idiot, right, And that's fine too. Everybody's different.
So my worst vacation combined two things that I really
don't like, my ex and camping. And so yes, So
I think I've told you the story that we went
to this camping and r V show. All right, We
go to the camping and URV show and they hand
(03:32):
me the brochure and I was like, good lord, look
at that. That person looks like they're doing yoga outside.
It's beautiful, glorious. It's glorious on the brochure. So we
buy a camper and the first time we pulled into
the RV park, it was a private RV park, which
is part of the problem because people lived.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
There for part of the summer, sure, and so.
Speaker 4 (03:53):
People had these fake deer with bullseye painted on them.
So as we're pulling in, people are firing arrows out
at the fake deer and pop in like PBRs.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
And I was like, where I mean?
Speaker 4 (04:09):
It was like dueling Banjo's music playing in the background
as we're going through here.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Am I never not some wrong with me? All of
this sounds actually like quite a bit of fun. And
shooting arrows at fake deer.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
I guess, all right, let me just but this is
why I told you the brochure. The brochure.
Speaker 4 (04:25):
Where I was going in my mind was to stretch
my yoga mat out and to become one with nature
and sit outside and meditate. And it was skinnered playing
and arrows flying through the air at fake deer. And
then you had people who lived there in the summer
and they had golf carts decorated with Christmas lights and
(04:45):
they were doing wheelies as they were drinking too much.
And I and it was I came back home and
that's when I seriously said sell the RV. And my
ex was like, you're not serious. I'm like, I'm dead serious,
because I don't.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
Have to take it to Redneckville. You can take it places.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
Well, and I probably could have, but he didn't make
it better. So I said, there were two things problem
with that vacation, my ex and the RV. And yeah,
I've gotten rid of both since then.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
Which one were you most glad to get rid of?
Speaker 1 (05:14):
God?
Speaker 3 (05:14):
When the one that cost me the moch of them,
I'll tell.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
You that you you're doing for that. Let's say quick call,
Let's see what Kim's voting for. Kim, what was your
biggest let down with a vacation ever?
Speaker 5 (05:29):
I would say I went to Midland, Texas. I wasn't
excited about going to Midland, Texas. But it was for
a wedding, okay. And we flew in and I'm like,
oh my god, I'm in the middle of nowhere and
I heard you talking about jeweling banjos. Then the minute
I got off the plane, I was terrified. So my
(05:53):
ex boyfriend is in the wedding and I'm not so
Me and a couple of the other people hung back
and we were going to take an uber to the
wedding and the uber driver couldn't speak English and got
the wrong directions and we ended up in the middle
of nowhere, and we had brought shots, and we had
(06:16):
brought some different beer, and I finally had just lost
my mind. And I'm like, they should have paid me
to come here. And that's the driver if I could
start drinking in the vehicle, and he let me, thank God.
And we finally got to the wedding, and we missed
the whole wedding, and we walked in as the bride
(06:39):
and groom were coming out into the reception and then
the best part and I had to clean it up.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Wait gets better this language, so I don't want you
to slip and say something.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
I know.
Speaker 5 (06:56):
Dixon told me I had to clean it up, so
I missed in my wood. So I'm sitting there amongst
all these people who were talking about how they pretty
much wanted to end their lives because they live in Midland,
Texas and all everybody does is drink and do drugs.
And this is my conversation for the whole evening, and
(07:17):
all of a sudden, I hear the DJ make a
horrible comment about the mother of the bride.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
No wow, and.
Speaker 5 (07:28):
A brawl, an absolute brawl breaks out.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Oh I want to be that we made this job?
Speaker 3 (07:37):
Is like, are you kidding me?
Speaker 2 (07:39):
This sounds love to go to a wedding where there's
a brawl.
Speaker 5 (07:43):
I know, And I'm from the Midwest, from a Catholic
family and everybody drinks. And I used to joke all
of our events ended like that. That's kind of when
we knew it was kind to go home when the
police came.
Speaker 4 (07:57):
Oh my god, you are fun, like you would be
fun to hang out.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
I've said that I've always wanted to be at a
I want to be at a wedding where they do
that thing if anyone you know, has reason why these
two should not, and I want to be there when
somebody jumps to their feet, and you know, says I protest.
Speaker 5 (08:12):
Any reason, right, right, so many reasons. I just sat
there and drank myself into oblivion and watch the brawl happen.
I just thought, I'm probably not going to ever get
to go home like that sense of bread. Yes, and
I will never go back.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
I will tell you I've been in the Midland Texas
a few times. I even played some sporting events. I
played ball in the Midlands as the visiting team. I didn't
live there, right right, And they don't want to drink
the water there either. It tastes like oil. It comes
out of the ground and it tastes like it's got
an oily taste of it. Is this where that.
Speaker 4 (08:52):
New show Land man is supposed to be for Midland Texas?
I don't Thornton Show.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
I don't know. Kim, you really entertained this. Thank you
for being I love you, no problem.
Speaker 4 (09:02):
That was a blast.
Speaker 5 (09:03):
I listened to you guys every morning.
Speaker 4 (09:05):
Thank you, Kim.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
Mak you care to you?
Speaker 3 (09:08):
Okay, yeah, Kim, that is hysterical.
Speaker 4 (09:11):
Matt just Texas says, biggest letdown from a vacation, my
full whole family and I run a cruise and we
all got pink eye.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
Oh so bad. Nice. The stories this morning have been
really funny. When we asked what was the biggest letdown
vacation you ever went on? You were excited to go,
and then Kim's call might be the call of the week.
Speaker 4 (09:35):
It was hysterical if you missed it. She went to Midland,
Texas for a wedding and it just hated her life.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
And it has been the seventh level of hell from
the way she described.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
It, right.
Speaker 4 (09:46):
And then we found out a couple of other things
off the air from Kim because we were like, what
in the heck happened to start this big fight? And
she told us the DJ basically called the mother of
the bride a prostitute in a with a different term.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
Yes, so that happened.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
That starts with the word dirty, right right.
Speaker 4 (10:06):
And then the second thing that happened at that wedding
was the bride and groom's drug dealer showed up because
they ran low. I was like, what what I mean
when you hear her? I mean, I was like, I
can't even fathom so funny, And she was like, there
wasn't enough alcohol in the whole state of Texas to
get me through that wedding.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
Yeah, that's so funny. It's a call of the week man.
That's really good. Yeah, Robbie's listening in Denver and we said,
you know what, vacation was the biggest letdown And he says,
the vacation the Navy promised me. That's funny, it's really good.
And then Teresa says, we're on a road trip to California.
We stopped for the night in Nevada. We were leaving
(10:46):
the next morning. We were pulled over by the local
PD because my husband apparently resembled a guy who had
robbed a casino the night before. That's you gonna have
to come with me, sir.
Speaker 4 (11:04):
Yeah, it reminds me of Chevy chasing vacation right.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
Oh my god, you guys make us laugh. Thank you
for driving the bus here. We appreciate you. Running the show.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
John in the Morning with Melissa Moore the podcast on
Cool one oh five. Subscribe now so you never miss
an episode and learn more about the show at Cool
one o five dot com.
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