Going on vacation - how do I explain it to my lad

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Posted: Sun May 02, 2010 12:57 pm

Looking for creative ideas how to explain the lad that you are not going to write mails for 2 1/2 weeks.

Going to the States, NY and Florida and I am not so eager to bait during this time.

Posted: Sun May 02, 2010 1:17 pm

"I am going away on business for 2 and a half weeks. I'm sorry for the delay."

How's that? No need to make up excuses for lads, after all, you are the all-important beneficiary to the fund Smile

Posted: Sun May 02, 2010 1:23 pm

just ignore him and enjoy your holiday

when you back, he'll be in his rotten cafe waiting Laughing

Elite Baiter Joined: 19 Apr 2008 Posts: 1301

Like you I used to worry about not writing and wondering whether I'd be dropped but like others have said - stuff them. They're the ones who should be stressed by the sudden lack of communication.

Enjoy your holiday and you'll come back to a nice batch and ever more frantic emails from the lad. Just tell him you broke your leg and were in hosptial.

Master of Master Baiters Joined: 10 Jan 2010 Posts: 503

Post him your itinery using Deuzers forms, make up what you like and just say it was a business trip or whatever.

I use this when I have a lad who says he is in London. I all of a sudden drop in on him and offer to meet him. Frantic excuses then start as to why he cannot meet me in person.

You could always say you are going to drop in on your way back from wherever, if it suits the bait. That might give him time to sweat.

Then of course there is also the ongoing volcano problem!!

Posted: Sun May 02, 2010 1:58 pm

Tell him you are on your way out to westy and will follow his xfer instructions to the letter.

Posted: Sun May 02, 2010 2:51 pm

Most of the times I just tell them I'm going on a vacation. I try to get the bank account out of them just before I leave, tell them I'll send the money the day before I leave. Ofcourse with the excuse that it could take a few days before the money arrives due to the anti-terrorism laws. The lad goes to check the bank account daily, doesn't see the money appear, gets more anxious as he can't contact me for an explanation and then poof - their account is suddenly closed. Unfortunately my bank tells me that the transfer worked and that it got deposited just before it got killed.

It drives them nuts. You can almost taste the tears on their sobbing faces Twisted Evil

Posted: Sun May 02, 2010 3:35 pm

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the transfer worked and that it got deposited just before it got killed

Nice touch. Wink

Posted: Sun May 02, 2010 5:08 pm

Tell him the truth. Or a version of it, involving a five star hotel in the Seychelles, for example.
You can never have enough lad envy.

Posted: Sun May 02, 2010 5:14 pm

You can tell them you are going on vacation / business trip / your uncle's funeral / ... and you should be back in 1 week. Then, after that week they will start writing you and get more and more worried. When you get back you can tell them about what happened that caused your return to be delayed. (arrested / sick / wrong plane / volcano / found love / ...)

Posted: Sun May 02, 2010 6:37 pm

You are the sole heir to your dying wealthy aunt's enormous fortune. She is very gravely ill and only has a week or two to live. You want to be at her side when she dies and at the lawyer's office the next day to get your inheritance.

Posted: Sun May 02, 2010 7:48 pm

In one of my baits, although I wasn't going vacation, I was trying to get another baiter to help me and play the role of the banker. I explained that I needed to leave the country because my mother was very sick with this rare disease and only the doctors in Russia could help. The lad was actually very nice about it and said he was saying prayers for my mother and was very saddened when I e-mailed him from Russia (I didn't, but he thinks I did) with the bad news of her passing. He even then gave me an extra week to take care of the funeral arrangements. It was a horrible death:

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Thank you for your e-mail and heartfelt wishes.

I’m sad to say that my mother died this morning. And it was a very horrible death. I will probably have nightmares until the day I die. Those Russians are savages and butchers. We never should have taken her there.

It started out well enough. They gave her the stuff to knock her out and we were allowed to watch the surgery from the observation deck. It was very bright in there, and very chilly (it made me realize that man have nippples). Anyway...

While they gave her stuff to relieve the cranial pressure she started to suddenly jerk around and thrash. And was foaming at the mouth. She struggled so much that one of the straps holding her down snapped and so did her leg! All we could see was this great big bone sticking up through her thigh.

And then her head started to swell and and we could hear cracking and popping noises. And then suddenly one of her eyes exploded from her head and hit the observation deck window!

I started puking right away. And it wasn’t one of those pukes like you have after drinking too much beer. This was more like dry heaves. The kind where's your bent over the porcelain god and wretching until you almost feel your liver coming up your throat. And the McDonald’s Bacon, Egg, and Cheese Bagel (with the potato thingie--for an extra dollar) I ate a few hours earlier came up. I don’t know what was grosser--that vomit or my mom’s eyeball hitting the window. I definitely didn't have the squirts like I usually do after eating at McDonalds.

Anyway--it got crazy after that. The nurses and doctors were running around all panicked and then suddenly my mom’s head exploded. Yeah--freaking exploded. Brains and blood and stuff all over the room. And get this--the Russian hospital is going to charge us extra money for clean-up costs. Cheap bastards! I hope my mom's insurance will cover it. If not I may have to get a second job.

Anyway--We will be bringing my beloved mother back to the States for the funeral and should be back on Monday. Services will be Wednesday. It’s definitely going to be a closed-casket affair. I don’t think any undertaker can put her head back together.

And I should be ready to begin working with you towards the end of the week. I very much appreciate that you are holding my space and have been so understanding and kind during this difficult time. I swear I won’t let you down and I will make it up to you.

I’m sorry that you don’t want Banker XXXXX involved. He’s a decent family man and could use the extra money, especially since his 14-year-old daughter got knocked up by the school football quarterback and his 16 year old twin sons had sex changes. Man--talk about a dyslexic family.

Speaking of my banker XXXXX--He asked me to ask what your plans are for this transfer stuff. I’m not too familiar with all this bank stuff. If it’s okay, I would still like to consult him on general questions or stuff I don’t understand. I promise not to reveal sensitive information.

Thank you again, Mr. XXX for your prayers, time, and understanding.

NOTE: I've still got the lad going and I can't understand why the banking info I gave him is not working...

Posted: Sun May 02, 2010 8:46 pm

^^^All of the above ideas are great btw. I recently used a version of
Rick Shaw's answer. A vacation to London and UK and amazingly the lad had to leave on a business trip to Canada and then Spain. Because he was a lawyer in London. We were trying to find his office and meet in person. (Yeah right). ^^ @Knotty Pine. good one. wealthy relative.

Posted: Sun May 02, 2010 10:13 pm

You are going to Dingolfing, Germany to take delivery on your new BMW 750li. Whilst there, you'll drive the autobahn, see the sights, dine on exotic German food, and then have the car flown home to wherever it is you live. It's all rather dizzying, and makes you to wonder how the common people live.

Posted: Sun May 02, 2010 10:16 pm

There is something seriously wrong with your baiting approach if you feel the need to excuse your absence to them.

Posted: Mon May 03, 2010 12:46 am

Must be something seriously wrong with mine then!

I very recently had a nine-day absence from baiting and I gave excuses to all my Lads. Well, the same one, actually. Everybody had a close relative die. It would have been peculiar/suspicious for my stop-at-home/very-excited-about-sending-money characters to just disappear.

The Lads all waited patiently, and like with dwatina's Lad's, sent their thoughts and prayers. And are now treating my character's with care and concern. Which I'm sure has nothing to do with the forthcoming inheritances.....

Posted: Mon May 03, 2010 1:12 am

I use vacations and business trip explanations to slow down baits, works wonders. All wish me well and happy holiday.

Posted: Mon May 03, 2010 1:14 am

Branwen wrote:

Must be something seriously wrong with mine then!

I'm glad we're on the same page.

... kidding. Wink

But while we're discussing baiting tactics, I personally like to get my lads in a state of total dependence. They know to never question or disobey me.

Now, if after - say - they travel a thousand miles or so looking for phantom money and end up getting laughed at on the phone when all's said and done, I can tolerate - or, at the very least, understand - some doubt in my legitimacy. However, if some lad dares to take offense to a few days of silence, they'll get slapped so hard, a piece of their soul will die.

Bottom line for me is this: I don't like wasting my time. Like an investment, I want the best ratio of time put in to time and resources of lads wasted.

Posted: Mon May 03, 2010 2:17 am

I'm always in the hospital. Razz

Posted: Mon May 03, 2010 6:33 am

@ Nick the Cop

I understand your point and I suppose that you are capable to do so is the reason for your success with safaris.
Unitl now I have no clue how to prepare my lad to be in such a condition.
Perhaps you are giving some insight in your tactic, I would be really interrested.

Posted: Mon May 03, 2010 7:24 am

Baitsamurai wrote:

Perhaps you are giving some insight in your tactic

I realize that that was just a typing error on your part, but it's actually correct. I AM giving insight. I HAVE already mentioned how one could, at the very least, start getting their lads to this state. In fact, just a few posts up from this one, I had said:

"There is something seriously wrong with your baiting approach if you feel the need to excuse your absence to them."

If I just flog me methods, I'm sure I won't get through to anyone, so let me instead pose a question. How can you make your lads dependent on you, when you are so dependent on them? I mean, for Christ's sake, you're excusing yourself to some faceless cretin for something that's going on in your personal life.

Instead of excusing yourself, just go about your merry way. When you come back, write back to them, and if they start getting pissy about your disappearance, rather than explain yourself (which is an obviously apologetic approach), slap them for being uncouth.

Y'all are being submissive. Surely you can see how giving order while being so is paradoxical at best.

Posted: Mon May 03, 2010 7:41 am

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I mean, for Christ's sake, you're excusing yourself to some faceless cretin for something that's going on in your personal life.

No. I'm continuing the realism of my character. Maybe it depends what sort of character one is playing.

My sneaky 'businessman' character (currently not in use) would certainly never explain his life (or his absences) to anyone. My other characters are more dependent, however. They've developed personal relationships with their Lads. Not just the Love Lads, they are 'so close' to their bankers and lawyers and other people wanting to move money around.

No, I'm not submissive. Laughing

Nor are my characters, really. But they do develop such trust with their dear friends who are helping them, and like to tell them everything.

Different styles. Different intentions as well, probably. Certainly different types of characters involved.

Posted: Mon May 03, 2010 8:07 am

Branwen wrote:

Maybe it depends what sort of character one is playing.

Indeed. All of my characters are crass and loathsome.

Even with my guyman characters that become "friends" with the lads, I put them down at every opportunity I get. Similarly, the occasional love interest of the lad I play is always self-centered and unsympathetic to the lad's plight.

Interestingly enough, the more the lads hate you, the more likely they are to obey you. Maybe it has something to do with their increased drive in relieving you of your belongings, or maybe it's some visceral instinct to not fight with the "tough guy". Either way, it doesn't matter. It works.

Posted: Mon May 03, 2010 8:24 am

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All of my characters are crass and loathsome.

That must take some awesome acting skills?

I agree with Branwen here, draw them into your character's world, like Scherazade seduce the nasty scammer with riviting fiction. beating

Posted: Mon May 03, 2010 8:34 am

devil_woman wrote:

That must take some awesome acting skills?

Not really. I just be myself.

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