It Is A MAD HOUSE In My Town Right Now!! HOLY MOLY!

To all the dipshits that think like this, COVID relief is long over. Since last December done. People that have lost jobs and cant find work and these assholes have no relief. Just more lockdowns and more bioweapons. Get it the fuck over with already pull it man.

Same here in Lebanon Tennessee. I live 4 miles from the Cedars of Lebanon. Traffic here has gone bezerk. And everyone is driving fast. I talked to a coppa a few days ago and he said people are flooding into this area, and I have noticed it’s mostly milenials. Bless their hearts so many died from the vaxxx but faaah. They drive like batshi@ out of hell.

He means people who obviously don’t work. Do you know how to fucking understand what you’re reading? Go back to school.

How are these imbeciles finding the money to fill their vehicles up at $100 or more a pop?

Nothing is making any sense:

my guess is home equity loans, and as always credit card debt has ballooned up big time in the last 2 years.

just a never ending party for a lot of people out there. if you have no joy from the LORD you need constant entertainment.

People are what I call RecreaTARDS...constantly needing recreational enjoyment or their lives are meaningless. Could never stay home and garden or milk some goats.

They will raise the price even more. People are supposed to only drive to work or shop when it gets like that.

dude, my home equity rose $110K in the past 12 months.


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LOL. Bro, spend what money? they have no money, they are all broke and in debt. These people must have like 40 credit cards each. Hell, I bet they even use their kids name to get credit cards too..

Most of them dont even have jobs. Why do you think there are so many "how hiring signs"??

Im not talking about low minimum wage jobs.. I am talking about careers.. Everyone is hiring, but no one wants to work.. I know this. 2 of my buddies are recruiters, 1 of them works for a tech company, the other works for UPS. The are all paying very well and no one is applying...

Eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we die.

I don't think I have ever posted on GLP even though I have been here since 2010.. I do lurk alot, almost every other day.


I live in a small wilderness town around under 10,000 people in the western part of the US.

There are alot of lakes and rivers and other recreational activities in my area.

I have lived in this area for over 31 years. During the summer time it does get a little busy, but not too chaotic. It has been like that since I moved here 31 years ago...

But OMFG, this week has been a mad house!! I know it is Memorial day weekend,but never have I seen so many people traveling to my area. I am talking about a 10x increase in the number of people! 10x from a normal summer vacation crowd. It usually takes me 5 minutes to drive from the supermarket to my house, but yesterday it took 30 minutes!! Even when it was busy in the summer time in the past 31 years, it only took me 10 minutes max!

A while ago I read a thread about this GLPer mentioning that unempIoyed people are always traveling. see thread below

Thread: Unemployed People Are UNSTOPPABLE... Nothing Can Stop These People From Traveling

I have to agree with this guy. I mean, gas prices are skyrocketing, inflation is at historic high, 401k's has taken a huge hit from the stock market crash, and people are all in debt to their heads and they are just traveling around alot?

This makes no sense.. People already had 2 years off from Convid, how much more vacation time do these people need?

Here is an article showing that more people are going out this weekend.. What the heck is going on?

Memorial Day weekend travel: gas prices drop slightly — to $4.59 a gallon — as 34.9 million cars hit the road

[link to www.marketwatch.com (secure)]

People are what I call RecreaTARDS...constantly needing recreational enjoyment or their lives are meaningless. Could never stay home and garden or milk some goats.

People are making up for the lockdowns of 2020

yes, but where do they get the extra money from? im pretty sure they maxxed out all of their cards during covid.

arent the gas prices hurting them? i see them all driving gas guzzler SUVs and trucks like, chevy tahoes, 4runners, ect..

all of these cars get around 10-15 MPG or less.

white people are fleeing the cities..

Younger generations have realized that working 50-60 hours per week is nothing to be proud of. They understand that they are just commodities to the folks that they work for and have made conscious decisions to take time for themselves. The brainwashing of the twentieth century is wearing off as individuals realize that working non-stop until you're 65 is not the way to go. They know that a person will be lucky to have ten years left at that point to enjoy retirement.

It sounds like most of you here feel for the ruse that a person should be working as much as possible as opposed to enjoying leisure and family.

I don't think I have ever posted on GLP even though I have been here since 2010.. I do lurk alot, almost every other day.


I live in a small wilderness town around under 10,000 people in the western part of the US.

There are alot of lakes and rivers and other recreational activities in my area.

I have lived in this area for over 31 years. During the summer time it does get a little busy, but not too chaotic. It has been like that since I moved here 31 years ago...

But OMFG, this week has been a mad house!! I know it is Memorial day weekend,but never have I seen so many people traveling to my area. I am talking about a 10x increase in the number of people! 10x from a normal summer vacation crowd. It usually takes me 5 minutes to drive from the supermarket to my house, but yesterday it took 30 minutes!! Even when it was busy in the summer time in the past 31 years, it only took me 10 minutes max!

A while ago I read a thread about this GLPer mentioning that unempIoyed people are always traveling. see thread below

Thread: Unemployed People Are UNSTOPPABLE... Nothing Can Stop These People From Traveling

I have to agree with this guy. I mean, gas prices are skyrocketing, inflation is at historic high, 401k's has taken a huge hit from the stock market crash, and people are all in debt to their heads and they are just traveling around alot?

This makes no sense.. People already had 2 years off from Convid, how much more vacation time do these people need?

Here is an article showing that more people are going out this weekend.. What the heck is going on?

Memorial Day weekend travel: gas prices drop slightly — to $4.59 a gallon — as 34.9 million cars hit the road

[link to www.marketwatch.com (secure)]

There are people who have money. Business owners. People who invested well. Wealthy retirees. Those that just saved money. And yeah those who are putting it on credit. Who cares really. What’s the use of living if you don’t have some fun once in a while.

True. Life goes by so fast. Why waste it doing things you don’t want to all the time?

What you describe makes perfect sense for times of economic distress.

During the great depression, movie theater attendance skyrocketed and cinemas thrived. The reason was when times are tough, people spend on affordable diversions.

You small town is busy because instead of getting on planes and flying to places like NYC or Vegas, families are saving money by driving to smaller, closer, and cheaper vacation spots. It is much, much cheaper for a family to pay double for gas than to buy four tickets, which are then ALSO jacked up due to high gas prices.

It is common sense.

Five years ago my FB feed was filled with pics of families vacationing in Europe, carribbean islands, and other exotic locations. Now all I see are families going camping or going to national parks by car. Literally nobody going to Europe. Even upper middle class people can barely afford that right now.

These are the same reasons why when retailers fail everywhere, Dollar Tree and Dollar General thrive. People downgrade their behaviors. Your town has become the closest they can get to a week at Disney World.

There is no mystery to this if you look at history and just think it through for a minute.

Omg this so much!!! People have no idea how to stay home and chill and make your property prosper..

Two things driving it:

After a couple of years of being locked up because of Covid people CRAVE traveling again and aren't afraid to spend money doing it (money has ALWAYS been spent on travel during times the US is NOT at War, yep even during the Great Depression)

China is OFF the table because of their lockdowns - hundreds of thousands of Americans PER YEAR were going, today? ZERO!!

Australia is mostly OFF the table, as is most of SE Asia, again because of their lockdowns or just coming off of their lockdowns and aren't back up to speed yet. Again a few hundred thousand Americans who would have traveled there this year.

For Western Europe the WAR in Europe and their on again off again lockdown situation has meant that MILLIONS of Americans who would have gone to Western Europe this year are staying home.

Canada is OFF the table. With their fucked up entry crap nobody anymore can figure out if they are Open, Closed, or what in the hell you have to do if you go there. Again MILLIONS of Americans are NOT going to Canada this year.

Russia and Eastern Europe are CLOSED because of the War, another couple of million

The Middle East is rumbling WAR again so nobody wants to go their either.

Those several hundred flights a day to Europe before the Covid lockdown, and the couple of hundred flights a day to China and Asia before the lockdown were NOT flying empty. They were filled with people ... who have nowhere else to go.

Take it all in and combine with that fact that many people WANT to travel the options become the US, Mexico, or the Caribbean, can't even go to Canada.

There is going to be LOTS of US travel this year by people who would normally have been going somewhere else in the world.

Your area being PACKED doesn't surprise me in the least. Going to be that way all summer ... yep even if gas prices go to $7/gallon.