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Staycation. One of the newest terms to come out of the recession. Staycation. For those of you who don’t know what a staycation is, that is when you have the TIME to go on a vacation, but don’t have the MONEY to pay for it. Like that shit is something. Like anything, when it happens to anyone else, it doesn’t mean anything. But when it happens to white people, it gets legitimized and gets a name. STAYCATION. Ain’t that a BITCH!
I read everyday’s paper. Meaning some days I get busy and don’t read Monday’s paper on Monday. I might read it on Tuesday. But I read everyday’s paper. And I was aware of what that meant. But when my mother heard about it, she laughed so hard that tears came from her eyes!
My mother and I went out to purchase a couch and when we got to the store we found them to be unacceptable. My dog wouldn’t have climbed their furry butts on those raggedy ass couches. So moms said she wanted to go the “water.” We stopped off at the store and bought a couple of drinks and headed to the beach. On the way to Harbor Drive, I saw a sign that said “Staycation.” I said, out loud, “Staycation, Ain’t that a Bitch!” Mom asked me what did it mean. So I explained it to her. I then said that “Black folks have been “staycationing” our entire lives. Now that it happening to white people it got a name!” With those words, mom let out a laugh that I hadn’t heard in a while. And every time I looked at her, she would laugh even louder and harder. It got to the point that I was laughing at her, laughing at me, laughing at her. By the time we parked, moms had tears coming from her eyes.
When we passed by the billboard as we were leaving, moms started laughing again. And there will be times when I go downstairs and hear moms laughing, she will say something like “staycation” and bust out laughing. Why is she still laughing?
The city of San Diego has an ad campaign that touts “staycations” as the way to “get away” for a while. And from reading the travel sections, other cities are doing the same thing. These cities could have saved themselves a WHOLE BUNCH OF MONEY. All they had to do was ask Black Folks how to “staycation.” Hell, we’ve been doing it ALL OF OUR DAMN LIVES! For GENERATIONS and GENERATIONS!
Staycation. AIN’T THAT A BITCH!
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Yes, I am still laughing at staycation. I raised two kids on a nurse’s salary and had paid vacation but choose to not use my sick time to travel. I saved it encase I had a prolong illness I would have my sick time as well as unused vacation time. I did get sick and had lots of time stored up. But staycation must have been around because my parents adhered to the practice as well as many of their friends. Thanks folk for putting a name to what we have been doing for years.
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