Posted on 06/04/2007 4:59:12 AM PDT by Daffynition
I understand that your choice of topics is sometimes meant to be funny, but you should understand that most times you are simply creating work for me.
What would you have me do now?
You want to delete the article, which notes a trend in the travel industry? Fine.
ESSENTIALS for your METRO-MANCATION: A Guide For Metrosexuals
Bring your:
Prescription toothpaste and teeth whitening strips
Skin care products, scrubs, lotions, and creams
Collection of personal stationary and writing instruments
Louis Vuitton whiskey caddy with bar ware, extra glasses and a shaker
Shaving kit, including lathering brush, cream, stipple and after-care
Picnic basket well stocked with Christofle china, complete complement of silverware (don’t forget butter tongs, chocolate muddlers and parfait spoons), and linens
Hair care, with Vidal Sassoons three-product kit (clean, condition, and finish)
Portable wine cellar and stemware collection
Cigar-band diary
Extra collar stays
Steamer for last-minute touch ups of dinner jackets, linen trousers, etc.
Sewing kit to keep your missing buttons and snags to a minimum
Cedar shoe trees
Extra batteries for every need, including your BlackBerry
Stingray-skin BlackBerry holder
Ample supply of underwear
Nail care set, with buffing cream, shammy, wooden stick and three-sided nail polisher
One year of back issues to GQ and Men’s Vogue, for rainy-day reading
Polaroid camera to photograph your wardrobe each morning, to prevent you from wearing the same outfit twice
Barbells, workout mat, and pilates balls
Separate hampers for dry cleaning, underwear, workout gear and washables
Sanitary tool kit for daily “manscaping”
Shatter-proof pocket mirror
A FREEPER WRITES
Dear Silly:
I am organizing a metro-mancation, and we are all having a discussion about whether I should bring my butler. Is asking your butler to accompany you on a metro-mancation still a correct and civilized practice?
A concerned metrosexual
Dear Freeper:
Good question. OF COURSE you bring your butler to your metro-mancation.
If you didn’t, who is going to tell your footmen where to set up the tents and grills?
Like, duh.
Silly
I love the "Steamer for last-minute touch ups of linen trousers..."
This trend is totally beyond my comprehension ... I guess The guys are know are family-friendly and a night out bowling with the boyz is enough to suit their bonding needs.
This is also about money and lifestyle. These sorts of vacations are for guys with plenty of free time, large vehicles, and unlimited cash to spend on frivolous, expensive luxury items. In other words, the rich and the wanna-be rich.
But if they do start bringing their butlers, I’d like to know.
Sounds like he may want to be on a permanent "mancation".
My vacations consist of a couple large coolers full of beer, fishing gear and an extra pair of shorts, taking the old mans boat out to sea for a week.
LOL... Ask Jeeves.
Sounds like he’s gay.
My thoughts exactly. Isn’t this how affluent gays used to live back in the early 80’s before AIDS closed all the bath houses?
More men arrange for ‘mancations’
Not that there’s anything wrong with that..........
HAHAHA!
Pretty well stocked, wouldn’t you say?
Except for the cigars, I have no use for anything in that post.
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