# A four thousand dollar trip to Europe for a fourteen year old? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 25, 2015, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-four-thousand-dollar-trip-to-europe-for-a-fourteen-year-old/715939 "2015-03-25T14:11:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 13
**Author:** ![Cinnamon\_Imp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@Cinnamon\_Imp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cinnamon_Imp)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2015, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-four-thousand-dollar-trip-to-europe-for-a-fourteen-year-old/715939/241 "2015-07-05T12:58:11Z")
Bumping this thread to wonder out loud if Emily got her vacation last month, seeing as she raised a whole $[420](http://www.gofundme.com/iubyyo)out of $4000 in her GoFundMe! ---
**Author:** ![Honey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/honey/32/5074_2.png) [@Honey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Honey)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2015, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-four-thousand-dollar-trip-to-europe-for-a-fourteen-year-old/715939/242 "2015-07-05T18:35:37Z")
It looks like Emily’s mom hasn’t posted here since her request for money. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2015, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-four-thousand-dollar-trip-to-europe-for-a-fourteen-year-old/715939/243 "2015-07-06T13:13:17Z")
Well, she posted one more time to bump that thread. But yeah, I wouldn’t have come back either. ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2015, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-four-thousand-dollar-trip-to-europe-for-a-fourteen-year-old/715939/244 "2015-07-06T13:18:40Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > Well, she posted one more time to bump that thread. But yeah, I wouldn’t have come back either. Like nearly all of us, you would have the good sense not to have made a post like that in the first place. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2015, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-four-thousand-dollar-trip-to-europe-for-a-fourteen-year-old/715939/245 "2015-07-06T13:24:19Z")
Your faith in the soundness of my judgment is touching, if somewhat misplaced. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Sparky812](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Sparky812](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sparky812)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2015, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-four-thousand-dollar-trip-to-europe-for-a-fourteen-year-old/715939/246 "2015-07-07T16:41:32Z")
> [@Cinnamon\_Imp](#): > > Bumping this thread to wonder out loud if Emily got her vacation last month, seeing as she raised a whole $[420](http://www.gofundme.com/iubyyo)out of $4000 in her GoFundMe! Yeah, but only 3 donors. 6 of those donations are monthly installments of $50 from the same person, someone gave her $100, and some anonymous donor threw in $20. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2015, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-four-thousand-dollar-trip-to-europe-for-a-fourteen-year-old/715939/247 "2015-07-07T16:54:15Z")
Surely you got at least $20 worth of snark out of this. ---
**Author:** ![bucketybuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/898d66/32.png) [@bucketybuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bucketybuck)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2015, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-four-thousand-dollar-trip-to-europe-for-a-fourteen-year-old/715939/248 "2015-07-07T16:54:34Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > [Moderating] > No, we’re not going to go there, not even in the Pit. Stalking the children of other posters and **bringing in their off-board activities is not allowed on the SDMB**. This discussion is over now, and anyone trying to skirt this ruling is going to get a warning. > [/Moderating] Just picked up on this now, what a brilliant choice of words! Guess it didn’t apply to the OP. 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-four-thousand-dollar-trip-to-europe-for-a-fourteen-year-old/715939.md?page=12)