• intensely_human@lemm.ee
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      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.

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        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.

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          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

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          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.

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

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

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          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

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        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.

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        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.

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        The real answer is nobody cared enough to push the idea into the mind of the public, and, therefore, the public did not care enough to act upon it. Capitalism is merely another fragment of humanity’s callousness.

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          Which is why extra bonuses for already wealthy people is the most important thing in the entire world.

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        Costs need to be cut for the sake of commercial school budgets. Because somewhere the budgeting became a school’s job and not a regional government thing.

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      On an unrelated note, the word “adult” is cursed.

      “Adult field trip” has a much different connotation than simply a field trip that adults go on…

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      They exist, just search for “old watermill tour” and I’m sure you’ll find something close to you.

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      They are. They’re called “conferences” and they’re typically of a bullshit subject matter your company is interested in enough to send you to.

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      To a small degree they exist. At least for the parents of said children. My kids’ school frequently asks for parent volunteers to go on field trip to help watch the kids.

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        Yeah ours used to do that, and now they require a full background check before you can volunteer. So no field trips.

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          require a full background check before you can volunteer

          The local animal shelter is begging for dog walkers. But they send your info to a totally shady international background check place that shouldn’t know very much and also violates data sovereignty.

          So no dog walkers.

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            A background check for working with kids makes sense. For walking dogs though? What do they think is gonna happen?

            Nah, I’ll pass on that one.

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      Assuming you mean work-sponsored, they exist. My job usually does one (optional and workload permitting) like every six months. Outside of work…well if you’re an adult nothing is stopping you from going to a museum or an old mill yourself.

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      Schedule a tour of your local water plant! Even small cities have interesting setups, and its in their best interests to give tours and build community trust.