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by Bill Smiley
Every mid-summer, for some peculiar
reason, my wife and I get into the same
conversation. We talk at some length about
where we should go for a holiday.
We have this ridiculous, guilty feeling
that we should do what normal people do
on their vacations; go to a lodge; rent a
cottage; buy a tent and go camping; hire a
trailer; go for a "trip" somewhere.
Anything.
We talk about it for weeks, off and on.
We keep referring to "our little trip".
Perhaps we should just jump in the car
and go gypsying around the country, we
say. It sounds good, nice and careless and
fun, with a new adventure just around the
next curve.
Or maybe this year we'll do the culture
bit; a week at Stratford, take in all the
plays, dabble our feet in the Avon, look
with the eye of old theatre-goers at the
stunned gawking tourists.
Or, for a change, book in at a posh lodge
• for a week, no meals for the old lady to
cook, dress to the hilt for dinner, mingle
with the fascinating sub-jetset.
Or this year, for once, we'll rent a
cottage for two weeks, dam-the-expense,
get away from the telephone, slouch
around in bare feet and shorts, and listen
to the loons on the lake at night.
Or, for a complete change, maybe we'll
go to the city, check into a fancy hotel with
a pool, lounge around in an air-conditioned
room, and go out to dinneer and a good
show.
There's only one trouble with all these
plans. They require decisive action, and we
never seem to get around to either decision
or activity.
Take the posh lodge, for example, First,
they are all clip joints. Secondly, the? re
booked for the whole summer. Thirdly, we
don't have the wardrobes to dress to the
hilt or anywhere else. Fourthly, they are
full of bores. And the food is no screaming
hell.
Then , the culture bit. It's awfully
difficult to gear yourself up for a week of
Shakespeare and Shaw and dressing up-
and standing in lineups for dinner, when
you're lying in the backyard listening to the
birds, with a good book, and barely enough
energy to reach for your glass, and you
know there ain't going to be no lineup for
the fried chicken and the young, new
potatoes and the juice-spurting corn and
the cold, tangy tomatoes in your own
house.
Gypsying around in the car is fine,
except that you have to get out on the road
with all those maniacs, and drive and drive
in the heat, and pay a ransom for motel
rooms, and eat fried food until you begin to
feel like a french-fry, and watch a TV set
offering re-runs of last winter's re-runs.
The biggest adventure here is wondering
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whether the toilet will back up.
A couple of weeks at a cottage is
appealing, But what the heck, we slouch
arounda t home in bare feet and shorts,
and as far as listening to the loons at night
goes, you can always ask a few of your
friends to drop in.
A few days in the city has an equal
appeal. I always catch a cold in the
air-conditioned rooms, neither of us likes
swimming in a pool with a lot of common,
middle-class people, you have to sign a
second mortgage on your house to pay the
bill, and you can hardly wait to get home,
where the room service is free and great
deal faster.
So this week, with our "little trip"
looming up like a vampire, we both
discovered, instantaneously and with great
relief, that we'd justEtay home for the time
being.
She: "I was really lust agreeing because
I thought. you wanted to get away
somewhere."
He: "You mean to say that you don't
want to go off in the heat and be soaked
every time you turn around and eat all
those rotten french-fries and besides the
tires on the car aren't so hot. I was only
going because I thought you'd like
achange, get away from the meals."
She: "I can't stand other people's
cooking and I hate motel rooms and you
know how hard it is to find a decent place to
swim."
He:"Yeah, and if we took our golf clubs
we wouldn't have room for anything else
and if we didn't, we'd have to rent them,
for an arm and a leg."
Ironically, we live smack in the centre of
one of the great resort areas in iCanada.
People who move here from the city can't
undrstand why anybody wants to go away,
even for a day.
Anyway, great, .mutual sighs of relief.
But there was still that guilty feeling, that
sense that we weren't pulling our weight in
the great holiday farce. So we
compromised.
He: "Tell you what we'll do. We'll drive
down to the marina and look at the boats.
Then we'll check the prices at two of the
local motels. Then we'll drive out to the
beach and look at the cottages".
She (eagerly): "Yes. And then we'll
come home and turn on the sprinkler and
I'll get you a dinner that would cost you $14
in a restaurant and tomorrow morning
we'll play golf at the most beautiful course
within 300 miles, and tomorrow afternoon
we'll sun and swim at the most beautiful
beach within 400 miles."
He: "Yesl Yes! Yes! And there's a
terrific movie on TV tonight, four stars,
and we've only seen it twice."
Who needs a "little trip" anyway?
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