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[-] intensely_human@lemm.ee 99 points 23 hours ago

They are. You just have to sign up for them. Nobody’s gonna come drag you out of your comfy chair to do it like they do when you’re a kid.

There are probably twenty places in your city where you can show up and pay $20 for a tour.

If you’re in Denver, for example, you can go to the Coors brewery, or the Art Museum, or the Botanic Gardens, or Buffalo Bill’s grave, or Meow Wolf.

If you want someone to call you at 6 am and order you to call in sick to work because you’re going on a field trip, please let me know and I’ll make a business out of it.

[-] jballs@sh.itjust.works 42 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

I played hookie a few weeks ago and went down to the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo on a random Tuesday. It was glorious.

Later my middle schooler was looking through Google Photos and went "wait, you and Mom went to the zoo without us?!" Mwahahaha. Get rekt kid.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Just went on a trip with only me and my mother, while my wife and the teenager stayed behind and my god, it was so nice going through an aquarium and being able to stop and look at something for longer than 15 seconds.

[-] MutilationWave@lemmy.world 4 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

I'm often unsupervised in my work. Sometimes we can work extra hard for a few days and skip a day once we're sure that we're getting done on schedule. We say we were there of course. Got to go to MoMA and New York's Museum of Natural History this way.

Edit- letting your kid look through your Google photos account, pretty brave

[-] zod000@lemmy.ml 8 points 20 hours ago

Bahahaha I love it and I need to make this happen for my wife and I.

[-] meeeeetch@lemmy.world 19 points 23 hours ago

Along similar lines, there are chartered bus tours that you can sign up for to go to multiple destinations in a city farther afield.

[-] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 6 points 16 hours ago

The local bus company does a "mystery bus trip" every couple of months or so where you pay a flat fee, hop on the bus and go do something. They give you just enough info to know if you might want to do it or not and how to dress and the rest is just up to whatever happens

[-] Agent641@lemmy.world 3 points 8 hours ago

"Bring a shovel, painters overalls, and a bag of lime"

Exactly! I did tours through a cathedral, where we went inside the roof or behind the iron curtain of an opera. In any city, there are loads of these tours.

[-] coronach@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 21 hours ago

Stranahan's is a fun tour too!

[-] ceenote@lemmy.world 3 points 23 hours ago

There might be something to that... Is it illegal to forge a doctor's note? If so, you'll just need to keep a doctor on retainer.

[-] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 2 points 16 hours ago

Only if your employer requires a doctor's note for sick days. Honestly if I ever have another job that does require a doctor's note I might just make a habit of forging those because fuck that noise

[-] intensely_human@lemm.ee 2 points 20 hours ago

Unfortunately it’s perjury. All places of employment are considered to be courtroom proceedings per the Honesty Expansion Act of 2021

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