July 1, 2024 • 6 mins
We are talking about vacation days at work.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Well, Americans may not take all their vacation days. Everybody
on this show can can agree to that, except for
one person. I'm not talking about you this time. Okay,
oh no, here we take in summer.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Yeah, you ain't doing that with your little dad.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
Let me have it a week or whatever, vacation days,
sick days.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
Whatever he could take off.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
He does it? Is he sick on the sick days?
Speaker 3 (00:32):
Uh huh? No this golf week? Yeah? Are you talking
to me, No, we're talking about you.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Americans may not take all their vacation days, but that
does not mean that we don't spend a lot of
time thinking about those vacation days. New research revealed that
Americans spend about two hundred and eighty four days of
their life dreaming about being on vacation. And we spend
more than that's a lot of time.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
Then we spend more than.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
One hundred and thirteen hours every year thinking about being
on a beach somewhere and your vacation picks on social media.
People don't like those. They do not stop that base up. Yes, yes, yes,
they make people jealous. They bring out that one of
their food. The study found that every day, the average
(01:20):
person sees vacation pictures on social media. That makes them mad. Okay,
that's probably why thirty.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Yeah, I know, huh, nobody cares.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
That's probably why thirty six percent of Americans admit they
put those vacation picks on social media to show people
just how great.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
Their lives are.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
So, Steve, you and your wife Marjorie take wonderful vacation. Yeah,
and we know you guys ball till you fall when
you go on vacation. But we what we want to
know is how do you vacation on a budget? Before
you got to where you are now, how did you.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
Well, I just need to know, you know how much
we're talking about.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
If you tell me what the budget is, there are
things I can recommend. Let's do two thousand dollars okay,
two thousand dollars for a.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Family of four four okay.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
That's.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Yeah, Well, we ain't going nowhere? What are you? Something
like that?
Speaker 3 (02:23):
Okay, all right here, let me change that.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Yeah, we're gonna have to drive somewhere. We have to
make the gas budget be the how much?
Speaker 3 (02:32):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (02:32):
Let me ask you how much it costs fill up
for the average tank right now? Okay, So we need
we need to stay one gas tank going and one
gas tank coming. We're talking about one hundred and twenty
dollars out the budget. Okay, there you know, man, we
gotta stay within one tank. So we're talking about it's
(02:53):
gotta be within three hundred miles. Now, if we're gonna
stay overnight, we gotta get in economically feasible accommodation.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
Okay. These are stuff like comfort In sweets.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Now, reason you I would recommend comfort In because they
had a free breakfast. See that's saved money now, you know.
And they got free Wi Fi. So you gotta gotta
take this consideration. And if you stay at comfort In,
you get points. I'm just working with this two thousand.
So everybody room at fifty dollars a night, would you
say that's fast sixty?
Speaker 3 (03:28):
So you need just two ruins, one for the kid, you.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
And the wife and one for the kids with a
connected dough and lead a damn.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
Dough yeah, I like yeah, so they don't burn that
damn hotel down. And then you got other issues.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
So we got two rooms at let's say seventy dollars
five dollars a night. That's one hundred and fifty two nights.
Were looking at three hundred dollars in room.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
How many nights we're gonna do three nights homes?
Speaker 2 (03:54):
Well, I'm trying to I'm trying to get it together. First,
we got to stay somewhere. We're gonna do three fifty
four rooms, and we got one hundred and twenty on gas,
about five fifty fifty something like that. Hey, all right,
now we got let's just say we got fifteen hundred left.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
Okay, okay, that's a nice amount of money. Did we
eat a damn thing?
Speaker 3 (04:18):
We We should make some sandwiches. Yeah, Yeah, a pack
of cooler full of sandwiches because you're driving.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
But make sandwiches that stick, peanut butter and jelly. Ain't
gonna been a whole lot of ham now right, Peanut
but and jelly sandwiches, perment us bread sandwichesverbody to give
damn what you don't want.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
Just all we got.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Eat pork skins and water. You gotta get something in
you that swim punk skins and water. I'm familiar with
all this. Just what we got blood, We take bagging
and porch steins and drink a bottle of water.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
You ain't even gonna know your hum damn not. But
at least they quit crying. All right.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
Now when it got us a little something to eat.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
The kids have stopped up the hospital on the way. Yeah,
we gotta have some activities. Now.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
We going to six Flags where the day passed everybody, okay?
Or were going to the zoo where you can really
entertain kids and keep it on the budget. All were
going to a state park. Pull up at it where
we can barbecue out there and then let the kids
(05:49):
run till they drop in an open field.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
And you gotta put your grill.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
What you only gonna stay there and watch well on
the other side, away from the car. Then you run
your kids to the car to get stuff that helps
zap the energy out of their hands, okay, and give.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
Them something to do.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
You can see the car from your barbecue grille, but
its way across the field, sitting the ass back and
forth across that field about six trips.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
And every time you send them say hair up, you
wrong for this, Oh dog, I know how you think
you having fun because you're running in that field. All
about that third trip back, they asked walking, I shot
her up shut walking through this met put some responsibilities
(06:43):
on the we gotta go.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
You're listening morning show
Well, Americans may not take all their vacation days. Everybody
on this show can can agree to that, except for
one person. I'm not talking about you this time. Okay,
oh no, here we take in summer.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Yeah, you ain't doing that with your little dad.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
Let me have it a week or whatever, vacation days,
sick days.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
Whatever he could take off.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
He does it? Is he sick on the sick days?
Speaker 3 (00:32):
Uh huh? No this golf week? Yeah? Are you talking
to me, No, we're talking about you.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Americans may not take all their vacation days, but that
does not mean that we don't spend a lot of
time thinking about those vacation days. New research revealed that
Americans spend about two hundred and eighty four days of
their life dreaming about being on vacation. And we spend
more than that's a lot of time.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
Then we spend more than.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
One hundred and thirteen hours every year thinking about being
on a beach somewhere and your vacation picks on social media.
People don't like those. They do not stop that base up. Yes, yes, yes,
they make people jealous. They bring out that one of
their food. The study found that every day, the average
(01:20):
person sees vacation pictures on social media. That makes them mad. Okay,
that's probably why thirty.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Yeah, I know, huh, nobody cares.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
That's probably why thirty six percent of Americans admit they
put those vacation picks on social media to show people
just how great.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
Their lives are.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
So, Steve, you and your wife Marjorie take wonderful vacation. Yeah,
and we know you guys ball till you fall when
you go on vacation. But we what we want to
know is how do you vacation on a budget? Before
you got to where you are now, how did you.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
Well, I just need to know, you know how much
we're talking about.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
If you tell me what the budget is, there are
things I can recommend. Let's do two thousand dollars okay,
two thousand dollars for a.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Family of four four okay.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
That's.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Yeah, Well, we ain't going nowhere? What are you? Something
like that?
Speaker 3 (02:23):
Okay, all right here, let me change that.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Yeah, we're gonna have to drive somewhere. We have to
make the gas budget be the how much?
Speaker 3 (02:32):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (02:32):
Let me ask you how much it costs fill up
for the average tank right now? Okay, So we need
we need to stay one gas tank going and one
gas tank coming. We're talking about one hundred and twenty
dollars out the budget. Okay, there you know, man, we
gotta stay within one tank. So we're talking about it's
(02:53):
gotta be within three hundred miles. Now, if we're gonna
stay overnight, we gotta get in economically feasible accommodation.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
Okay. These are stuff like comfort In sweets.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Now, reason you I would recommend comfort In because they
had a free breakfast. See that's saved money now, you know.
And they got free Wi Fi. So you gotta gotta
take this consideration. And if you stay at comfort In,
you get points. I'm just working with this two thousand.
So everybody room at fifty dollars a night, would you
say that's fast sixty?
Speaker 3 (03:28):
So you need just two ruins, one for the kid, you.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
And the wife and one for the kids with a
connected dough and lead a damn.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
Dough yeah, I like yeah, so they don't burn that
damn hotel down. And then you got other issues.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
So we got two rooms at let's say seventy dollars
five dollars a night. That's one hundred and fifty two nights.
Were looking at three hundred dollars in room.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
How many nights we're gonna do three nights homes?
Speaker 2 (03:54):
Well, I'm trying to I'm trying to get it together. First,
we got to stay somewhere. We're gonna do three fifty
four rooms, and we got one hundred and twenty on gas,
about five fifty fifty something like that. Hey, all right,
now we got let's just say we got fifteen hundred left.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
Okay, okay, that's a nice amount of money. Did we
eat a damn thing?
Speaker 3 (04:18):
We We should make some sandwiches. Yeah, Yeah, a pack
of cooler full of sandwiches because you're driving.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
But make sandwiches that stick, peanut butter and jelly. Ain't
gonna been a whole lot of ham now right, Peanut
but and jelly sandwiches, perment us bread sandwichesverbody to give
damn what you don't want.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
Just all we got.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Eat pork skins and water. You gotta get something in
you that swim punk skins and water. I'm familiar with
all this. Just what we got blood, We take bagging
and porch steins and drink a bottle of water.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
You ain't even gonna know your hum damn not. But
at least they quit crying. All right.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
Now when it got us a little something to eat.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
The kids have stopped up the hospital on the way. Yeah,
we gotta have some activities. Now.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
We going to six Flags where the day passed everybody, okay?
Or were going to the zoo where you can really
entertain kids and keep it on the budget. All were
going to a state park. Pull up at it where
we can barbecue out there and then let the kids
(05:49):
run till they drop in an open field.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
And you gotta put your grill.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
What you only gonna stay there and watch well on
the other side, away from the car. Then you run
your kids to the car to get stuff that helps
zap the energy out of their hands, okay, and give.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
Them something to do.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
You can see the car from your barbecue grille, but
its way across the field, sitting the ass back and
forth across that field about six trips.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
And every time you send them say hair up, you
wrong for this, Oh dog, I know how you think
you having fun because you're running in that field. All
about that third trip back, they asked walking, I shot
her up shut walking through this met put some responsibilities
(06:43):
on the we gotta go.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
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