It'll just get worse
I got very interested in piercing. Not tattoos or other body modifications, just the piercing. As someone who has never worn jewellery in his life, it was a new adventure for me.
Let’s dispel a few myths:
It’s not an expensive exercise. You can get a septum piercing for £25, maybe more depending on the jewellery you pick.
It can be painful, of course, when it is done as people are sticking needles in your body, but only for a short time.
I had a great idea for a tv show for adults, a quiz/game show called Inferno. It sounds rather dramatic, but it’s not.
You have a small audience of maybe a hundred or so, mainly young folk. Someone is picked at random to come and answer ten straightforward general knowedge questions.
The first is worth £1, the second £2, the third £4 and so on, doubling each time so the tenth is worth £512. But the sum accumulates, so after two questions you have £3, after three you have £7 and so on, so getting the tenth wins you £1023. Great for maybe a couple of minutes work.
I retired at the age of 60 after nearly 40 years as a teacher. I have been offered part time work, but decided that I was really going to retire.
So, doing up my flat (apartment), going to the theatre and concerts and such like have been entertaining me for more than three years now.
My first holiday was to one of my favourite places, maybe my favourite place. Chicago. Lots of other places in the USA followed: Washington, Seattle, New York of course, and Canada, ie Toronto.
I get a reaction from people I know. It’s usually ‘oh boring’, ‘but you have been there before, lots of times, you must have seen everything’ and ‘why not go somewhere more adventurous’. Someone said ‘oh you must hate cities, hire a Winnebago and drive through the wilderness for a couple of weeks’. As I don’t drive, get bored by sea, sand and scenery and love culture, people and activity, it is obvious I will go to a city.
When I am too old to fly long distances, which will be very soon I imagine, I will go to nearer places. Stockholm is on the list, as is Glasgow.
But, I don’t understand why people want to criticise me for my holiday choices, especially to places they have never been to.