Why Holidays Suck
The reasons why people don’t go away on holidays: no money, no time,etc. Here are some reasons why it’s good to stay home:
Ways of dying or wish you were: No shark attacks here. You’re more likely to be one of the people who die in accident.
Build up of mail and email: Do you think spam is bad? Email spam galore to an election or Christmas: you’ll end up deleting the good stuff like invites to a free wine tasting.
Jet lag: Falling asleep on a keyboard is not a good look for someone supposedly refreshed and remotivated their employers attitude.
Missing TV and events: if you’re addicted to ‘Lost’, you can quite happily miss four episodes, while out of mobile range of any global economic crisis.
Annoyance of other cultures: not understanding when you both speak English (yes Texas I’m talking about y’all and your ‘water’ ‘warterh’?). you can hear like as the sneering glances from the staff for interrupting their dinner before the ‘real’ dinners come in.
Brain-twisting mathematics: when converting Honk Kong dollars to Euros then ending up in Switzerland only to realize they’re not part of the EU.
Food: Bread in France, but not in the US. Cereal is fine, except in Germany with the chocolate chips.
Water: There are some places that you can drink H20 no worries, like as good old Aussie
The credit card bill: the exchange rate seems to be worse on the bank statement, you got caught up in the moment and bought..
Anticlimax: we spend on holidays to be enlightened/rested/entertained. Apart from the joys of a functioning in-flight entertainment system.
The mess: Back at home, the suitcase erupts: dirty laundry, ripped clothes, that sticks to your suitcase.
So next time you look at the double figures.
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