My advice, don’t virtue signal. Do not seek the approval of others. Do what makes you happy if you are in your 50’s and feel you have done for others all your life, stop doing that. The caveat is that if you made children, you have an obligation to them, but once they are grown, especially once they are are out of college, it’s all you baby.
I spent a few hours on the internet trying to plan my spring vacation then I checked in here after and kinda got bummed out. I went from trying to decide on Rome, A London/Rome combo, Puerto Vallarta or Cabo. We have four couples that want to go but I refuse to fly at least in premium economy on flights over 6 hours yet not all of them are in a position to drop 1500 plus each for air. Plus only a few airlines have the full recliner with the calf support like a lay-z-boy that my short wife prefers because she can’t reach the foot pedals (air new zealand, singapore and a few others have them the rest only in the front row, but none go to rome) so I’m thinking two days in London on each end my work because london to rome is short and I can do coach as long as I can get to london on a higher class, I wish Alitalia wasn’t in bankruptcy because booking that far out is a gamble. I’m hesitant to drop 6k for a lay flat business or first class but intrigued by the bidding system for upgrades some Euro airlines are using. But in a group that can be a mess. I even checked into how I can upgrade to first class on my trip next month and upgrade my brother in law without him knowing because I don’t want to sit in coach to Boston but it would be rude to leave them behind in coach.
Scardey, those are 50 year old people problems, not home schooling or the girl from middle school that you were afraid to talk to. I had a middle school crush too. In the gap between wives I found her, she was lousy in bed and made me miserable, the one that got away is usually better off that way. Actually I found the elementary school crush and a few other crushes, same result.
Maybe it’s the great deal on the Prius, give that to a kid and get a car that warms the globe and your heart.
Use single use cups, plastic straws, buy a gun, just find whatever it is you need to make you happy. For me, it’s a swim up room at the hyatt ziva or zilaria, wine and pasta in Europe and not flying coach.
You want philosophy? How come Asian airlines are so much better than the others and their seats are bigger despite a having a smaller clientele? Once you’ve flown on Eva or Singapore or Cathay, especially in anything above coach it’s so hard to go back. When did British Airways start to suck? Virgin? $100 a bag each leg, F-You. Now that’s a 50 yo problem.
