He was The World Voice of Experience but they didn’t listen.
Story Note:
A totally G-rated, innocent Spring Break conversation with some young adults, ladies and gentlemen- quiet and serious ones at that – about what to do in Amsterdam as a possible destination evolved (devolved?) into something else in my mind… so I started writing.
“Amsterdam? For a week? It’s beautiful, but cliché. So many of our fellow countrymen think it’s all that, but you’ll be bored after two days there. After a short while, all the canals look the same. The Red Light District is full of gawking, clueless tourists, and once you’ve seen the two popular sex shows in town, all you’ve got left there is peeking in the red-lit lady windows. Peeking, not entering… unless you want to pay sucker tourist prices for sucker tourist service… and you guys don’t even have close to that amount of money in your personal budgets. They charge you $50 just to enter to read the menu of available services, can you imagine?”
The (soon, in three months) Spring Breakers looked at him with the look of those who are humoring the older guy, but think they know it all, and are going to do it their way.
He continued, “However, if you want to visit museums, you could kill a couple of additional days. The Rijksmuseum is real nice, and pretty easy to get in. The Van Gogh museum is awesome. The Anne Frank House is both awesome and humbling, and we all need to be humbled once in a while. For those two you’ll need timed-entry tickets in advance… usually well in advance. But those will help you eat up five full days there. A long day of travel each for coming and going, and you’ve got your full week.”
“Or, you could put yourselves into my hands. I can vet you into unforgettable experiences you haven’t even dreamed of, in different places you’ve never thought of… and would never know of. All within your budget.”
They kept to their own thinking, and with their real-world college student budgets they eventually settled on Fort Lauderdale beach. They had a great time, but they’ll never know what they missed.
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