You Can Still Fly Home for the Holidays
by Roger Wade
December 6th, 2006
Hey, slacker, what is taking you so long to purchase your airline ticket for the holidays? Yeah, I’m talking to you. You’re the one who thought about getting a ticket a few weeks ago but you were too lazy to take out your credit card and to punch in your information on the computer. Now you are getting calls every day from your family members asking when you will be home for the holidays. The guilt is hanging over your head like an anvil falling off a cliff onto Wile E. Coyote.
Perhaps you think it is too late to buy that holiday ticket. Maybe you are looking for an excuse not to go home and that excuse is that you can’t afford to buy a plane ticket. I have bad news to tell you, slacker, prices for holiday flights are not too expensive and you have no excuse not to be sitting next to your crazy aunt for Christmas supper.
Don’t believe me? Consider these prices: Chicago-DC for $132, Philadelphia-Orlando for $236, Atlanta-New York for $219 and on and on. Sure, you might get a better deal during some other time of the year, but the markups are not that great.
Get to it already, slacker. Your family will love you for it.