Am I the only one who doesn’t want to go on vacation? I’ll take the time off work, but I’d rather potter around my place, maybe go for some nice walks
Nah. One of my coworkers stays home for every vacation and reads. We try to guess how many books she’ll read during her week off each time. Closest guess, without going over, wins. She loves it and crowns a winner each time she returns, but the winner only gets bragging rights until her next vacation.
A few years ago I was at a gas station pumping fuel on a trip, while prices were extremely high, and I was thinking to myself that her way is certainly much less expensive.
That’s me! But I’m a really slow reader, and have many other interests, so that number would be between 0-1 every time lol.
[•••] and I was thinking to myself that her way is certainly much less expensive
Maybe so, but if you like going elsewhere then maybe it’s worth it for you. The main reason I don’t travel is because it sounds like the opposite of fun to me, personally.
But I spend plenty on my introvert shit. Like just recently spent almost 100 EUR on these fancy recycled notebooks for my partner and I, because I spend so much of my time writing workbooks, navel gazing diary entries, filling out bespoke agendas rofl; all that stuff.
But that’s me and my happy place.
Oh, yeah, I enjoy the traveling. My thought was just that as I was watching the pump total price go higher and higher. But I still travel for vacations. :)
Pedantry: it putter not potter.
Completely agree. I think it’s a consequence of the late stage capitalist world. We’re way too burned out to have the energy to go on adventures or the money to make it easy to do.
Pedantry: it putter not potter.
Wuuuuuuuut! That’s crazy. I’ve been using it wrong my whole life.
Everything is a lie!
Pedantry: it putter not potter.
I thought the same, but they’re actually interchangeable depending on where you are, so I interchange them for fun.
I think it’s a consequence of the late stage capitalist world. We’re way too burned out to have the energy to go on adventures or the money to make it easy to do.
Perhaps at the level of statistics, but I have the opportunity to travel (now, for the first time in my life), but no desire. There’s just so much to do locally, you know?
Thanks for your informative and less snarky answer. I learned something new today!
You don’t have to go far to have a nice trip somewhere. You could literally go on foot. Yeah some people do it just for the 'gram, but actually, meeting new different cultures always is a very enriching experience. Putting yourself into unusual situations is a very enriching experience. Don’t miss out on this pleasure in life.
I love near a metropolitan city, so I feel like the world kind of comes to me. And each passing year my small town becomes more and more diverse, along with my work and friend groups.
Obviously not the same as going somewhere with different history and culture, but I feel like my cup is full. Like, I’m good for pleasures. 👍🏻
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I understand that, but it can’t actually be literally true. Wherever you live, even if it’s the literal belly button of the world, you won’t notice what all people that pass through your town or live in your town have in common until you go outside and see what living without that thing you have in common is like. And thanks to that, you’ll get a deeper appreciation of what makes your town your home.
It’s not like tech: once you see a new technology at the store you won’t want to go back to your own crappy technology at home. It’s more like reading a book in the same genre, it will only make you appreciate what you love about your favourite more.
What can’t be true?
I do realise there are experiences I’m missing out on. I miss out on plenty of experiences other than traveling, though.
It would be neat to go somewhere I’m a visible minority, though. I don’t get a lot of that life, except maybe at weddings, big cultural events, etc.
Anyway my wife is a traveller. She gets that wanderlust from time to time, so it’s only inevitable that she take me on one her trips one of these days.
The airport sounds like the worst part tbh so much indignity
I like vacations where I just go exist somewhere else. Plan a few outings, sure, go to some nice restaurants, but otherwise I just want to relax with no itinerary. The best vacations are ones where I don’t have to look at the clock.
Yeah the itinerary thing sounds so awful, especially if it involves traveling from place to place to place. But I guess some people really like it that way…
I like to exist in place for my vacations, but my partner is one of those who need to go elsewhere every now and then. I look forward to her stories, but am thankful I don’t have to share in them haha
Yeah I am the no plan kind of traveler. My wife is the general plan type and even we clash sometimes. I can’t handle the itinerary people. I’ve gone on trips with them but I won’t participate in their scheduled activities. For that reason cruises seem like the lamest way to waste money on travel to me.
Am I the only one who doesn’t think vacation equals travel? It just means you don’t have to go to work.
That’s what I always thought. Or thought it was just what we called stat days since I never got vacation until I got into software. Now that I’m around people in a higher income bracket I discovered we get more than 2 or 3 days off?? And folks are going places like far away, for long periods of time.
I still have not adjusted from this middle class culture shock
25 days off per year is minimum by law in my country. I have 36. Would never be able to afford traveling for 36 days (plus weekends) every year though.
Just take some occasional pics with family and surroundings and enjoy the vacation.
Make it a memory not a post that needs to be liked by “followers”.
I’m going to probably be going on a healthcare “vacation” next month where that’s a likely scenario, so I’ll let you all know how it goes.
Does posting exclude texting to group chats?
Cuz I tend to do a lot of that. Don’t really do social media (this barely counts), prefer to spend time with a select few gay nerds.
vacation? that would crazy.
I’d rather work than to be forced to post something on vacation.
Send me on a permanent vacation travelling the world and I’ll burn my phone and go no contact with anyone I know ever again
Send me on a permanent vacation travelling the world
https://foreignlegion.info/joining/ bon voyage & bonne chance!
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Yes.
Bravo
Personally. I don’t consider it a vacation until I’m cut off from everyone and everything. Let me relax in peace for a while, without distractions.
That’s exactly why I’m taking my first cruise this year, and I’ll be damn sure that the Wi-Fi doesn’t work
Oh don’t worry, you won’t have to try to break the wifi.
I went on a 2 week holiday earlier this year and I barely took a single picture lol
Spitting facts right there
Hell my favorite places to go hiking don’t even have cell service
I love taking a motorcycle up to the Radio Quiet Zone in VA and WV. There ain’t shit up there and no one can get in touch with me for days.
Just slowly cruising through the mountains and disconnected in a way that I haven’t been since before my first work cell phone.
It truly is bliss being disconnected from everything every now and then
No Internet, no phone calls, no texts, nothing.
Being truly disconnected from the world at large.
If people need me, they can wait until I get back from my hike or my vacation as I’m truly unreachable unless someone hikes out there too.
But ehat if you think of a good hashtag while you’re hiking
For real. This is the primary feature of vacation.
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Big yikes.
I’m a woman and haven’t posted a single thing from any vacation I’ve taken in years, maybe even a decade now.
Simply impossible! The species “female” physically cannot do that! I know because I as a man can do that and a basic rule of thumb is “if a man can do it a woman cannot and the things that women do could be done by a man but make him gay”
/s
Making posts about how you’re not home is bad OpSec.
No kidding! Glad someone gets it. A couple I know who Instagrammed their entire cross-Europe vacation last year couldn’t understand why I don’t want to travel at the same time as them this year even though we’re going some of the same places 🤦♂️
Well don’t leave us hanging! Does their house get robbed every time they’re away on vacation and posting about it on social media?
Not yet, but it’s not a chance I’d be willing to take. They have at least one neighbor who’s supposedly been arrested for theft. He used to watch their dogs for them but when they found out they stopped talking to him and changed the locks.
are you going to rob them while they’re away?
Hey everyone! Come fuck my shit up while I’m away! K thanx.
Look at my post history, take your pick of all my shiny things, with pictures of their condition you can scrape to sell them on ebay!
Some with actual casual valuations lol
People who don’t turn off notifications on their phones be like
Best thing I ever did, notifications go bye bye with every new phone
Sadly, this was a thing even before the web, let alone social media. There’s always been people for whom the vacations didn’t even “happen” unless they get to go on incessantly about them when they come back, ideally subjecting you to two hours of photos that mean very little to you. They derive little enjoyment from actually being there, they take it from showing it others…
For some people life is not worth living without external validation. Sad.
if to saint martin no, everywhere else probably
I would absolutely not go if I had to post something.
It’s probably a vacation to North Korea or something
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