Every year, new words get added to the dictionary, like "frenemy", "locavore" and "webisode" and it seems to me that the big winner this year was "STAYCATION", meaning to stay near home on your vacation, presumably because of the financial crisis of recent years. I'm cool with that. But now there are even crazier derivatives of STAYCATION popping up everywhere. I have seen "Daycation", or a one-day vacation; kind of like the Beatles "Daytripper" of old. The other day I saw "Naycation" which was meant to imply abstinence from any vacation whatsoever. Dumb.
What I saw driving to work this morning was the stupidest incarnation of STAYCATION. It was on a billboard for a local taco restaurant. It said "Take a Taco-cation". The billboard went on to ask, "Why go out of town this summer when you can put paradise in your belly?
Had the billboard not explained what "Taco-cation" was, I would have been very confused. Because I am a scientist by trade, I know that "cations" are positively-charged ions. For a brief moment, I thought the restaurant was selling some sort of new electrically charged or magnetic taco. For me, it was good that they explained that EATING TACOS COULD SUBSTITUTE FOR GOING ON VACATION. Are they kidding me? I really love tacos, but if I have to resort to eating tacos to enjoy some vacation time, just let me put a gun to my head right now.
When I think of VACATION, I don't immediately think about tacos. I think about Vegas, or NYC, or the Grand Canyon or Yellowstone, or even Italy. I don't think...hmm...crispy or puffy?
When I think of VACATION, I think about the Griswalds making the trek to Wally World, and Clark punching the moose and freaking out. I also think about the Go-Go's water-skiing in their video for "Vacation".
I don't know about you, but I need a vacation.
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