HOLIDAYS FOR THE MIND

Now we all need this. A chance to you know escape reality. And there is always a good time for this.

Which for me is all the time. Now the real chore with this is not letting anyone know you are doing it.

Because they won't understand. They will expect to join you if they find out. Yeah, that is the way some people are.

So unless you want somebody you don't want to spend time with ruining your escape the first rule is to lie about it. And you can be sure I do a lot of that.

The main part is not letting others know what you are doing. Meeting sure help on that part.

You just have to be sure they are meetings some place you can claim you can't be disturbed. As a mayor it works for me.

But then I realize not everyone has that option. So in their case I imagine you know something like chores are a good excuse.

Perhaps better explained as errands. Those are a wonderful. Really easy to excuse and not actually have anyone know where you are.

But the key is picking something that can't be checked. Having to go somewhere vague that nobody can question.

And there are plenty of those options if you are creative. Like going to the post office. You don't have to say which one.

In my case I do have the problem that involves being recognized. Which means I spend a far amount of time doing errands somewhere other than my city.

I can't say it is for things where I spent too much money. I mean the locals expect me to spend my money in town.

If I don't do that, then I am in big trouble. So the old con of visiting some doctor who is a specialist helps.

And you can be sure that I have lots of specialists I have to see. For strange illnesses that I can really explain.

But darn if I don't have to see them quite often. The tricky part was finding some good medical terms in a book that would sound like a scary disease. Only not in a way anybody asks questions. The fun was also getting that phony doctor's pad printed.