Every time I come home from vacation I have to get an earful about everyone else's vacation.


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By LoriS, Section Stories
Posted on Wed Apr 18, 2007 at 12:20:13 PM EST

I love to take exotic vacations.  Unfortunately, when people find out I've just returned from a trip this is invariably their cue to fill me in on every vacation they've taken in the past forty years.  

I was at a party last week and one of my friends mentioned my recent trip to Peru to some woman.  She goes to find me, or should I say HUNTED ME DOWN to tell me ALL about her trip to Ireland (the connection to Peru was completely lost on me)....so, here I am, all excited and full of little stories about my adventures and I get stuck listening to dimwitted and invariably long-winded observations from people I don't even know.  Unfortunately, they are usually the usually the "ugly American" types.....you know the people - "Oh, Rome was so DIRTY, and the people were so RUDE and the food wasn't the Italian food like they have at 'Olive Garden' so we didn't like it too much". Man! Why leave the comforts of the US if that stupid stuff bothers you??   The week I got back from my last trip someone found out and insisted that I look through their huge photo album from their trip to Hawaii eight years ago.  Fine, I am interested in your trip and happy to look,  but I would never hand someone over 300 8 year-old photos to look at and try to describe each one "Oh here's Mike eating a sandwich in the hotel room" "Oh, and here's a close-up of Mike's foot - a crab bit him and it got all swelled up!"   And for Pete's sake, if you're going to bore the tar out of me, can you throw me a bone and maybe ask me one thing about my trip? And if you are going to blather on about yours, then, PLEASE, I don't need a play by play of your mundane trip to the airport or how you freaking packed your clothes.    

I purposely avoid talking about my vacations unless people are really interested and I try to talk to them about aspects of it that would interest them (sports, history, food, art, etc.).
If anyone asks me about my vacation I usually tell them where I went and that I had a good/bad/indifferent time and I don't really elaborate unless they ask me more questions about the trip.  Why the heck would I bore anyone to death who is just asking out of politeness??

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Vote for your favorite "Boring Person Avoidance" technique (I can personally vouch for all of these!)
Start fake coughing uncontrollably and wave them away
Point out the window and yell "Oh my GOD! MY CAR!!!" and run out of the building.
Pretend someone is trying to get your attention and leave.
Faint (Ok, ... I've never actually done this one)
Punch them really hard in the face and act like you have no idea what just happened (another untested one, but my personal favorite!)
None of the above

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GET OVER IT (none / 0) (#3)
by rebecca on Wed May 23, 2007 at 01:53:59 PM EST
you know whats funny..is that YOU probably do the same thing as the people you're bitching about. just get over it...a vacation is a great thing to go to, and only a few get to go to the ones worth mentioning...so why don't you just stop with the hostility towards people who are probably like you?
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