Daily Highlight: When Do You Unpack?

Elvis is a chronic procrastinator, but is fighting his old habits! He unpacked two days after vacation... when do you unpack from vacay?!

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Today's Daily Highlight from Elvis Duran in the Morning Show.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
Two days and to.

Speaker 3 (00:06):
Work after two weeks on vacation, and it was and
getting back and readjusting. Is it's a readjustment? We all agree, right, Yes,
I broke a record yesterday, only two days home and
I unpacked my bags. I have There has been a
time I was packed for over a month and I
didn't even open the suitcase for a month. Wow, And

(00:30):
what do you kind of clothing you're wearing? Well, I
went to a warm tropical location, but I came back
to winter, so I didn't need any of that stuff.
So I opened up and sand fell out. Everything was
kind of great. But like getting back into the groove
of things and overpacking, I realized yesterday once again I overpacked.

Speaker 2 (00:48):
You guys overpack when you are underpack.

Speaker 4 (00:50):
I brought so much stuff with me that I didn't
even touch, and I.

Speaker 2 (00:54):
I knew I did.

Speaker 1 (00:55):
I did the wrong thing. I did more dressy stuff
than casual because I thought like, oh, I'm just gonna
do them. We're going to go out to all these dinners.
I should have done the opposite, and I did, so
I messed up.

Speaker 2 (01:06):
Yeah, I actually took two suits like linen suits. Ane,
we're going out to great restaurants. I were, We're one
one night in two weeks. It was just overpacking. It
so stupid.

Speaker 3 (01:16):
Hey, did you guys read the story about Europeans and
what they think about American tourists. They hate many things
about us, but the number one thing that despised is
the fact that we bring way too much luggage, heavy bags,
too much clothing.

Speaker 2 (01:30):
Yeah, there's nothing worse than seeing.

Speaker 3 (01:32):
An American pulling their roll bag down at cobblestone streets
that's been there for eleven hundred years. This is a
thing you see and you always know they're from America
because we overpacked.

Speaker 1 (01:44):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:45):
I do carry on only if it kills me. I
will stuff everything into that carry on. I cannot check
a bag. It stresses me out. It doesn't matter how
long the trip is, it will.

Speaker 1 (01:54):
Be a carry Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:55):
I think that's a great rule. And I keep saying,
next trip, carrying on. Actually, last time we went to
uh we went out of the country, we did carry
on and we did very well. City.

Speaker 1 (02:04):
Only time I feel like I can't do carry on
is when I go to Europe because they're so they're
more strict when it comes to toilet trees and stuff
like you have to have the clear bag and you
have to take it. And it's so strict, so different
like here you go to Florida.

Speaker 2 (02:22):
There's another thing.

Speaker 3 (02:23):
And this is gonna sound more boogie than this boogie
conversation already sounds when you go out and if you
let's say you go to London or you go to Paris,
or you go to Roam whatever, you want to dress
nice at night and that takes more cloth.

Speaker 4 (02:34):
Yeah, and then you have to bring shoes to match
the nice outfits.

Speaker 2 (02:39):
Absolutely.

Speaker 4 (02:40):
I read also that Europeans truly hate our style as
far as like leggings and crocs and the athleisure wear
thing that's happening right now. Like in Italy, you wouldn't
dare leave your home looking the way we look when
we exit to like go do groceries.

Speaker 3 (02:55):
Well, speaking of leaving your home, and you gonna tell
everyone what sweatshirt you were out of your apartment by
miss oh my gosh, what you did?

Speaker 2 (03:01):
When did you do this? By the way, this was
right before vacation. Okay, tell everyone what you did.

Speaker 4 (03:06):
Okay, So I have a sweatshirt that a friend gave me.
That is atrocious. It says something horrible on it, and
I only wear it in my apartment because why would
I not wear in the apartment. But I had to
go grab something. There's a little grocery store right near
my apartment, so I was like, oh, I have to
go grab it. I left wearing the sweatshirt. The looks
I was getting were mortifying, and it's written so big

(03:28):
on the back that there's nothing I could have done
about it. I was just like, you know what you
gotta you gotta deal with this one.

Speaker 2 (03:33):
Are you gona tell everyone what it says? Am I
allowed to? Uh? Sure?

Speaker 4 (03:38):
It says live fast, eat ass.

Speaker 2 (03:48):
I've got she's got.

Speaker 4 (03:50):
Two rabbits homping on it.

Speaker 3 (03:51):
I was like, oh my god, Oh my god, has
everything well?

Speaker 2 (03:56):
So what kind of looks were you getting? Then? Did
you notice people going? Oh god?

Speaker 4 (04:01):
Yeah. Somebody walked up to me and was like, for real, what,
Oh no, this is it? This is what happened. I'm
so sorry. It's like, listen, my friend got it for me.

Speaker 2 (04:08):
It's a joke.

Speaker 4 (04:09):
He thinks it's so funny. And I never wear outside
the house and here I am.

Speaker 2 (04:12):
Wearing it outside the house, you get more numbers.

Speaker 4 (04:14):
Like, no numbers gotten. I think people were just like
avoid her at all costs. That's disgusting.

Speaker 2 (04:20):
It's a nice it's a nice motto to live by it.
I mean, hellow, well, there you go. Also, traveling, Danielle noticed.

Speaker 3 (04:26):
Something and we've all noticed it, but we never talked
about it. When you stay in a it doesn't matter
what size, if it's i's inexpensive hotel or inexpensive hotel
or expensive.

Speaker 2 (04:36):
Motel or hotel. Uh have you really looked at the bill?
Have you ever? My gosh, go ahead, tell them what
you found.

Speaker 1 (04:43):
So we stayed at a hotel that was supposed to
be like, you know, maybe two three hundred dollars a night.
By the time all the taxes and everything got it,
it was four fifty a night. Yeah, I'm looking at it,
going this can't be right. And there was a room tax,
and then a tax the room tax, and then a
tax on the other tax. And it's and I'm like,
where what these taxes don't even make sense. I'm not

(05:06):
even getting you. There must have been eight taxes on
different things.

Speaker 2 (05:11):
Miami.

Speaker 1 (05:12):
I was like, what is going on? I'm like, this
is crazy, Like so.

Speaker 3 (05:15):
Yeah, well you know wherever it was. It happens everywhere
you go. But there's a resort tax, there's everything.

Speaker 1 (05:21):
Yeah, there was a resort tax. I'm like really, and
then there was a room tax, and then it's something
else tax and then I'm like, oh my gosh. I
guess they have to do what they have to do, right,
it's not their fault.

Speaker 2 (05:31):
But I don't know.

Speaker 1 (05:33):
I don't know who makes those decisions businesses.

Speaker 4 (05:36):
I mean, I think it's it's fascinating. It's just like
when you go to buy tickets online and then suddenly
the ticket that you bought is three times yatches it was.
I think it's fascinating that as a business you can
just add a fee and say oh, that's just the fee,
and it goes to you.

Speaker 1 (05:50):
It's crazy if you fight it, if you say like,
well I'll pay this tax, but not this one, and
what will they do.

Speaker 4 (05:57):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (05:58):
I don't know. I don't okay that if the person
at the desk is going to say, well, it's not
you know, it's not me, you know.

Speaker 4 (06:04):
I think taxes and fees are different. Also, Yeah, taxes,
I think you've got to pay fees or some restaurants.

Speaker 3 (06:09):
Some restaurants, if you look, they'll have like a service fee.
You'll ask what was this the tip They'll don't know, well,
then what is it?

Speaker 1 (06:20):
But the thing was there was a room thing that
it was an occupancy fee. And then there was a
tax on the occupancy fee. And then I was like
what all right, well, and then there was a tax
on the room.

Speaker 2 (06:31):
You look at those fees,