Speaker 1: I'm gonna make an admission, Laura, one that I'm not
Speaker 1: proud of. Recently, we had our Christmas break, like our holidays,
Speaker 1: and I went overseas with my fiance Ban.
Speaker 2: We had a marvelous time.
Speaker 3: I was living vicariously through your Instagram. It did look
Speaker 3: very lush.
Speaker 2: So we're in Switzerland.
Speaker 3: Great.
Speaker 2: Then we were like, we're freezing, We're gonna go get
Speaker 2: some warmth.
Speaker 1: We went to dubai Ah and I officially hate to
Speaker 1: say it, but I became the person that I hate
Speaker 1: on holiday. Like I have complained about these people, like
Speaker 1: to test them, and now it's me.
Speaker 4: You're the person who puts their feet on the seats
Speaker 4: with no shoes on, aren't you.
Speaker 2: No, that's you, that's me, that is you.
Speaker 3: I will never. I would never. I would never.
Speaker 2: Actually I did. I do do that sometimes now.
Speaker 1: But this is on par with you know how much
Speaker 1: you hate Like the carousel where you get your luggage
Speaker 1: and everyone starts to it's called the carousel creep. I've
Speaker 1: just decided to name it that, the carousel creep where
Speaker 1: you slowly creep towards the carousel where your luggage is coming.
Speaker 2: Then all of a sudden it's so congested.
Speaker 1: No one can see their luggage, no one can get
Speaker 1: their luggage. But you have to join the four otherwise
Speaker 1: you'll miss out. So then you become that person.
Speaker 4: There's so many of these things, like the etiquette's on planes,
Speaker 4: like whether you recline on a short flight or not.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well this one is.
Speaker 1: This is I've upped the carousel in my opinion. Where
Speaker 1: at this beautiful resort in Dubai and they have a
Speaker 1: beautiful man made beach that they have all these lovely
Speaker 1: chairs with umbrellas like lining the beach. But it's such
Speaker 1: a busy time because it was New Year's and it
Speaker 1: was such a busy part of Dubai, like huge resorts.
Speaker 1: And mind you, this is quite expensive, like because it
Speaker 1: was New Year's if you were paying through the nose
Speaker 1: for a hotel, and so each hotel has its own
Speaker 1: day beds for the beach. So we were going down
Speaker 1: the first few days and we were struggling to get
Speaker 1: a seat. We were like, why can we not get
Speaker 1: a day bed? This is crazy, like we're paying so
Speaker 1: much money to stay here and we can't even lay
Speaker 1: on a bed and enjoy the property. Then we looked
Speaker 1: out the window early one morning, and we saw people
Speaker 1: going down and baging bags in the beds with their
Speaker 1: towels or put the towel down, put a bag down,
Speaker 1: and I watched some days they would not come back
Speaker 1: for hours.
Speaker 4: It's like you go down in the morning pre breakfast. Yep,
Speaker 4: you lay your towels out, you put maybe a hat
Speaker 4: and some goggles or something that you mind if it
Speaker 4: gets taken, and then that's yours.
Speaker 3: You claim it for the day. Yep. Controversial. So you're
Speaker 3: an asshole, Ben, that's what you did.
Speaker 1: Ben and I we were having sleep ins. It's our holiday.
Speaker 1: We're a little roll in the hey.
Speaker 4: Maybe before we got the day started, but we weren't
Speaker 4: early rises.
Speaker 2: Well, anyway, we had to start doing it, I said.
Speaker 2: I said to Ben, I hate that. I'm going to
Speaker 2: ask you to do this.
Speaker 1: We got a T shirt each that we didn't mind
Speaker 1: if it was stolen, and we got towels and I
Speaker 1: would make Ben go down in the morning and bags beds.
Speaker 1: Then would go to breakfast, and then we would then
Speaker 1: see the people later that would come down that couldn't
Speaker 1: get the bed.
Speaker 2: But then what do you do?
Speaker 1: You have to do?
Speaker 2: But you have to join the dark side, or you
Speaker 2: don't get to live your holiday lives.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but then how long do you take it for?
Speaker 4: You take you've monopolized that all day?
Speaker 3: Well, no, when we left, we would go. You did
Speaker 3: just leave it there overnight. You're like, this is mine
Speaker 3: for an entire week.
Speaker 2: We set up a camp.
Speaker 1: Do you know what?
Speaker 4: This is what people are doing with cookers now, cool
Speaker 4: obarnas are taking over Austrailer everyone.
Speaker 3: It's the epidemic that we never saw coming.
Speaker 1: People are going down to the beach in the morning
Speaker 1: and bags in beach space. They put their cabana up.
Speaker 4: Do you remember last year we had a caller and
Speaker 4: they were This was on Life on Cut podcast. They
Speaker 4: were angry because they came back and someone was using
Speaker 4: their coolk obara. But they had also just assembled a
Speaker 4: cook obana in the in the morning, they left it
Speaker 4: at the beach.
Speaker 3: Then they'd gone shopping.
Speaker 4: They've gone and done all the other things during the
Speaker 4: day and then come back to the beach in the afternoons.
Speaker 3: They wanted the same spot. It's not real estate. You
Speaker 3: can't just pitch a cook obana and leave it there
Speaker 3: all day.
Speaker 1: No, Actually, it's funny you say that because at the
Speaker 1: time you had the opposite opinion.
Speaker 3: You were like, yeah, I'd use it.
Speaker 4: No, I think it's use I don't think if you
Speaker 4: leave an abandoned cool cabana at the beach, I think
Speaker 4: it's free game for someone else to seek shade from
Speaker 4: the sun.
Speaker 1: I'm ashamed by my behavior, I will say that. But
Speaker 1: I do think if you can't beat them, join them.
Speaker 3: I think there's a limit to it.
Speaker 4: I think you can if you're if you duck down
Speaker 4: pre breakfast and you put your towels down, then you
Speaker 4: go and have breakfast, and then you make it to
Speaker 4: the pool, that's okay. But if you're like lulling about
Speaker 4: in bed and you're making it down there for an
Speaker 4: eleven am start, I just think of all of the
Speaker 4: people who were there with kids trying to get to bed.
Speaker 3: You and I would have just moved your stuff.
Speaker 2: This is my question. Reckon you can just move yup
Speaker 2: some chowels.
Speaker 4: If you can't move it, if there's bags and clothes
Speaker 4: and stuff, if you know for a fact that they
Speaker 4: are not at the pool, I reckon you can move it.
Speaker 1: You don't know because they put stuff there. It's like props.
Speaker 1: They take props. It's an elaborate scheme. Now, Laura, I
Speaker 1: want to know.
Speaker 3: What you guys think. We're going to put a pole
Speaker 3: up on the Pickups instagram.
Speaker 4: If you think that this is okay or if this
Speaker 4: is real a whole behavior, I think it's going to
Speaker 4: divide people. It is, it is all right, Well, look
Speaker 4: something else for you'd ought to be mad about. People
Speaker 4: are very angry at the person who owns the apartment
Speaker 4: where Sex and the City was filmed. You know this
Speaker 4: the apartment, that iconic one. Then Harry, Yeah, that should
Speaker 4: always come out the front of So the person who
Speaker 4: owns that wants things lockdown, and everyone has some very
Speaker 4: strong feelings about it.