Traveling. The scourge of the modern age. It’s time-consuming and it’s irretrievably boring.

In the olden days, no one wasted their lives by traveling from A to B, because B was too far away. Now, though, people are quite happy to spend 10 hours in an aluminum tube, watching all their veins clog up and to breathe in the gaseous remains of other people’s lunch……………………….. just to get a tan.

When you are on a plane you are achieving nothing and you are not enjoying yourself, so you are wasting the most precious commodity you have: time.

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I had a few jobs before I went to work for Lloyds of London and eventually in 1987 Carnival Cruise Lines. I worked for H.M. Customs doing something in an office…………I don’t remember much about that job except if I looked out the window in the morning I had nothing to do in the afternoon.
Then for three months I tried to forge a living selling vending machines to offices and pubs etc. This was something I was not designed to do.

Imagine Richard Simmons working on a building site and you’ll have some idea of just how bad I was.

God, it was a lonely existence. All day I was in the car on my own with nothing to look forward to except a lonely dinner and then bed in a faceless and grey hotel.

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