I
made a stark realisation the other day, whilst in the pub with a small group of
people. They were discussing holidays. The usual, 'where we're going this
year', 'where we've been' and 'where we want to go' conjecture. I was very
quiet during this period. I have never left the country and therefore never had
a passport, as one has never been needed. However, I thought about the last
time I went on any form of a holiday. The answer is 2003.
This
raises a lot of questions about the actual point of holidays, and that most
people are idiots. Far too often I see and hear people proclaiming that they
need a holiday. Fair enough. However, more often than not, the people who
'need' a holiday, are the people who went on holiday a few months beforehand. I
know they went on holiday a few months beforehand because they never shut up
about their holiday, and then posted endless pictures on Facebook of them
drinking in a foreign pub, eating foreign food or sitting under a foreign sky
next to a foreign sea on a foreign beach with foreign people frolicking about,
wearing their foreign sun cream. Then, they return to the UK and show off their
foreign sunburn and you can see the foreign tan-lines from wearing their
foreign bikini.
