Vacationing is essentially an exercise in buying crap you'll forget about two months after you return home. Impulse buys are everywhere. Commemorative shot glasses with the your first initial on the side. T-shirts with witty saying you would never have come up with. Coconuts with monkey faces carved into the side. People can't get enough of it. So, don't be a people. Be a free-thinker. Mile after mile, I pass one shop after another. I fight that urge to smack down 20 bucks for a bucket of pastel-colored sea shells and just smile. My place won't look like a beach town threw up in it. And for that, I (and the environment) am glad.Image: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Brokencoconut.jpg
2 comments:
Hear, hear! Seems like people end up spending so much time in gift shops that they don't really experience the place they're visiting. It feels good to just say no to tchotchke.
Em
So you liked Florida, huh? :)
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