This post from Nicholas Bate is a few days old, but it’s worth bearing in mind during the January sales season:
- Don’t go.
- Don’t even think about it.
- Absolutely definitely don’t go.
- If you are asked, you can’t go because you are fishing/at the gym/building an extension/sleeping/writing a novel/in surgery/doing surgery/surfing/meditating/making cheese& pickle sandwiches….
- You know it makes sense.
- Don’t go.
- Just don’t.