*bursts through the travel agency door, sees all the
sheep in the waiting room clutching their brochures*
"Oh,
BEAUTIFUL!
Look at this!
A whole fucking room full of people who can't wait to pay thousands of dollars to be
MISERABLE
somewhere else!
*walks to the center of the room*
You know what vacations are? They're a
SCAM
. A brilliant fucking scam where you
PAY
to experience all the same disappointments you have at
home, but with
SAND
in your ass and a language
barrier!
Think about it - you work your
ASS
off for 50 weeks a year at a job you hate, saving up money
you don't have, so you can spend two weeks pretending you're happy on some
overcrowded beach with a thousand other miserable fucks who had the
EXACT
same 'original' idea!
*mimics excited tourist voice*
'Oh honey, let's go to Cancun! Nobody's EVER thought of
that!'
Yeah, real fucking original. You and three million other
walking credit cards.
And what do you
DO
on these
vacations? You take
PICTURES!
Thousands of fucking
pictures of shit that already has
BETTER
pictures on the
internet! 'Here's me in front of the Eiffel Tower!' Yeah? So fucking what? There's 80
million pictures of assholes in front of the Eiffel Tower! You're not special! You're
tourist number 4,286,953!
*paces around*
But here's the
REAL
joke -
you're not traveling to 'find yourself' or 'experience other cultures.' You're running
AWAY
from the miserable life you've created! You think
two weeks in the Bahamas is gonna fix your shitty marriage? Your dead-end job? Your
existential dread?
NEWS FLASH:
Wherever you go,
there
YOU
are! Your problems have
PASSPORTS
too, motherfuckers!
*points at travel posters*
Look at these posters - 'Escape to Paradise!' Escape from
WHAT?
From the life
YOU
chose? From the decisions
YOU
made? You can't escape
from yourself by getting on a fucking plane!
And don't get me started on 'all-inclusive resorts.' You fly
3,000 miles to eat the same shitty buffet food you could get at a Golden Corral,
surrounded by the same assholes you were trying to get away from, except now they're
SUNBURNED!
*addresses the room directly*
You want a
REAL
vacation? Stay
home. Take the money you were gonna blow on this bullshit, put it in the bank, tell
your boss to fuck off for two weeks, and actually
THINK
about why you're so desperate to be anywhere but where you are.
But no, no, no - you're gonna go ahead and book that trip.
You're gonna max out that credit card, take those stupid pictures, buy those useless
souvenirs, and come back
MORE
exhausted than when you
left. And in six months, you'll be right back here, planning the
NEXT
escape from the prison you call your life!
*heads toward the door*
Bon voyage, you magnificent idiots! Don't forget to buy the
overpriced airport food and argue with your spouse about directions in a rental car!
That's what memories are
MADE
of!
*exits, slamming door*