I was watching “When Vacations Attack” tonight and sobbing uncontrollably after watching some video clips that a dude on a plane took right before they had to make an emergency landing with a jacked up landing gear, cause seeing someone tell a camera that they love their family while women scream for their lives and flight attendants yell “brace!” at the top of their lungs in the background is an emotional experience, I don’t care who you are.
But yea, my real point is that this show is essentially all these examples of crazy shit happening to people on vacations - even though I don’t consider falling off a cliff on your mountain bike or having your jeep tumble down a ravine or dangling from a ski lift by your neck very good examples of “vacations gone wrong”. More like, “risky athletic-related hobbies not going as well as they could have”- but anyway, they show you all this awful shit and cut to commercial and the commercial is all, “Are you looking for that perfect getaway?? Look no further. Come to Hawaii! Enter this contest and win a free trip to Honolulu. Look at all the stuff you can do here. What are you waiting for? Go on vacation!” And I’m like, oh parasailing? Yea, no, thanks. I’m good. I’m pretty sure I saw something about this freak incident involving a severed cord and some lady’s terrifying, bone-crushing plummet out of the sky. Oh, traditional hawaiian entertainment? Yea, nah, I’ve seen those decorative paper lanterns accidentally catch fire and all the exits happened to open inward and the masses begin to panic and people start getting trampled, and so i’ll just stay home I think.
I mean, come on travel channel. You wanna promote travel? Maybe don’t air a show about airplane mechanism failures and near death scuba mishaps.
shit makes no sense.
