Heavy Metal Doctor wrote:
I get both extremes from each end of the scale of my friends / coworkers. Family is all fine with any RV because there are many RV-ers in our family.
My bosses, who are a bit on the snobby end of things (that is, they have enough money to live in the best part of any town, never drive a vehicle past about 3 years old, and own some expensive toys they don't even use just to keep as conversation pieces with other richy-rich business associates) kinda looks down their nose at RV's unless you spend a million or more on a custom Prevost bus. They can't understand driving more then 4 hours anywhere - they'd just book a flight...driving long distances is to be avoided and only and activity for "commoners"... So they think it's big waste of money and even have an attitude along the lines of "I must be paying you too much if you can waste money like that."...Funny, though, the one customer we all work with who owns that 1.5 Mil Prevost just loves to RV-travel and would have no problem with me parking my measly TT on the site next to them so we could all have dinner together. We chat often about trips and where we've been / planning to go.
Then there are the rest of the "grunt" coworkers who get worked up over any mention of my TT and trips and RV's in general as being some super high end luxury that they could never afford. This somehow makes me the "big man" tha must be making twice the paycheck of any of them....But like others here have mentioned, they all do stuff like drive 3hrs to the beach every summer weekend to a rented condo and drop lots of cash of eating out and lots of alcohol...we all probably all spend about the same, we just have different ways to enjoy our off time.
Well put indeed, and so true!
Human nature is a strange thing. It's a good thing animals don't have the same version of it .... or they'd never survive.
That being given, I refreshed myself on the dictionary definition of "mores".
When we reach adulthood, I don't completely go along with the "who cares what others think" approach to what I do or to what others might be doing. Maybe what "others are doing", or what "I'm doing" could use some adjustment. Acting as adults (as opposed to acting childish), we should observe others, use introspection after our observations, and maybe rethink some aspects of our actions and lives. If more of that was going on with us personally and among those around us, perhaps society's mores would improve faster, or move upward instead of downward.
IMHO if each of us is open to change based on what we see, or read-of, others doing ... are own lives might wind up being improved. FWIW, that's how I try to use the discussion and information that comes out in these forums. :)
