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I made this with my kid in mind, so that they can have a good, safe place to look at memes, just made to make folks laugh and smile!
Only goofs & silliness. (:
I get Friday night from 7:30 PM to Saturday at 11:59AM to myself. No phone calls, texts, messages, or emails. Home to myself. No contact. It's my absolute favorite time of the week. 9:00AM on a Saturday, nobody around: it's like inhaling deeply after holding your breath for a week.
Try a solo vacation! Heaven! No having to figure out where to go, what to eat, when to eat, how much to spend, when to go to bed, when to get up, etc.
I know someone whose favorite thing to do on vacation is to sleep in the hotel room until 1 or 2 pm every day. Forget doing ANYTHING before 3 or 4 pm. They'd get irritated if I went out at 8 am and started doing stuff without them. The museums and attractions close at 5, I'm not paying to see it for an hour.
Travel alone, it's liberating!
That sounds incredible. I don't think I could spring it.
Just do solo, one-tank day trips, then. Go visit the museums and stuff in the next city over.
No car and about as much time. I get Friday night at 7:30 PM to Saturday morning at 11:59 AM to myself. Outside of that I've got obligations.
Solo outings are fine if they're your idea. Not so much if they're forced upon you by circumstance.
I really enjoy going to good restaurants alone. I use that chance whenever I get it.
When I was is college, I was in the mood to go to the movies and no one was free to go with me. So I looked at what was playing and decided to pick something that was only mildly interesting to me to save better movies for when I went with a friend. So consequently, I spent the rest of the month trying to convince my friends that they needed to go see Slumdog Millionaire. That was one of my better movie viewing experiences, going in completely blind, on my own in a nearly empty theatre watching a movie I had no expectations for that ended up winning all of the awards for being super good.
But yeah, I enjoy doing things solo sometimes. Movies, dinner with a book or podcast, walking through the city/park, going for a long bike ride or drive in the middle of nowhere to just trying to explore and get lost somewhere. It's relaxing and peaceful.
It sounds like this person somehow glitched through the Matrix. Fascinating.
I went to a festival alone once. It was one of the most enjoyable times I've had, and weirdly freeing for someone who is otherwise a chronic people-pleaser.
Even when I go to festivals with friends, we usually have slightly different priorities in who we want to see and end up separated anyway. Can catch up at breakfast time and get a report on how good the stuff that you couldn't see was, which you can perfectly well do by speaking to randoms. Depends on the festival, of course - some are much more friendly than others.
I retired young (38 years old). I'm now 42. When I was working, I always looked forward to the weekends. It was my time to get out during the day and enjoy some sunlight, get some personal errands done, and maybe do something fun with my time off.
Now that I'm retired, weekends are the worst. Everyone is off work, so everywhere I go is packed with people. If I want to enjoy my day out in public, I prefer the weekdays now. Everyone's at work for most of the day, so I can enjoy a quiet, peaceful day out like OOP.
There's nothing quite like going out for a meal in an empty restaurant. No time constraints to eat and run; you can just sit and relax and eat at your leisure. I can easily spend 2 hours just chilling, catching up on news on my phone, eating at my own pace, and just enjoying the scenery around me.
Or going out to a park and just chilling on a bench or grassy slope with a good book. There aren't dozens of people out exercising or playing in the park. It's mostly just you and nature.
Watching a movie mid-day on a weekday is fun too. It feels like you have a whole movie theater to yourself. No lines at the concession stand, food is prepped and ready right away, no crowds trying to get tickets or push their way into a theater, and no annoying movie-goers to bother you during the film. You might get unlucky and have a couple others in your showing, but they're rarely bothersome.
I'm a night owl, so I'm usually awake all night and then sleep all morning. So I don't even wake up until the afternoon, then my first meal of the day is usually sometime in the early evening. It's fun to go out for "breakfast" in the evening. Especially if you get a classic breakfast meal. (Eggs, bacon/sausage, pancakes, etc.) There's no one to harass you about your meal choice or odd meal schedule.
I will say that I miss the pre-pandemic world. A lot of large businesses were open super late, or 24/7. Ever since COVID though, most businesses close up early, and good luck finding anything open all night unless you live in a major metropolitan area.
I used to love shopping at Walmart in the middle of the night. It's nice and quiet and I can get all my shopping done without running into another shopper. 3 AM was peak shopping for me. Now they close at 11 PM and there's usually people packed in there until closing time.
Even McDonald's is closed all night now. That used to be my go-to if I was out at night and needed a quick meal. Now no restaurants are open all night. I'll be lucky to find a gas station with an open convenience store where I can get a microwave burrito at night.
So I end up stuck at home for most of my awake time normally. If I don't leave the house as soon as I get up, there's a chance I won't have time to accomplish much that day.
You sound almost exactly like me. Except I’m not retired. If I was, that’s pretty much exactly how I would live.
I love taking myself out to a nice sit down dinner every once in a while. The people watching is top tier.