Readers share their experiences off the beaten track
It’s summer and that means… vacation!!! The most enjoyable few months of the year! Ah, the joy of family time, of warm weather, of… wait. Is that me talking? Have I forgotten the misery of vacation last year? And the year before? And the one before that? It’s always important to think ahead of time and reflect on all the things that might go wrong on vacation. Considering ample past experience, it’s not all that hard. Readers share their experiences off the beaten track.
I have a halachah sh’eilah. When we use an Uber to head to our vacation destination, my wife insists on putting all the luggage in front of the neighbor’s house, lest the driver realize that we’ll be away and take advantage of our absence to ransack our empty home. But here’s the sh’eilah: Might he not burglarize the neighbor’s home?
My wife addresses this concern by saying, “Wasn’t it nice of Bubby to move in with the kids?” in an exceptionally loud voice, multiple times. It’s a fair-enough solution, I guess, except that I have to keep biting my tongue to stop myself from involuntarily saying, “Wait, didn’t Bubby pass away ten years ago?”
To fly or to drive, that is the question. At first glance, it seems like flying is the quicker option while driving is the cheaper one. But sometimes, the lines are so blurred it almost turns out to be the exact opposite. When you drive, luggage is free, no matter how heavy, so you have to bring lots of it — and that costs money. When you fly, you run the risk (not a very unlikely one) of having your flight delayed. And delayed. And delayed. Until it’s canceled.
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