Rude/Disinterested not to ask about holiday.

I think it’s good manners to ask, but no I don’t want to see the 68 photos you put on fb.

I couldn’t care less tbh. I don’t expect anyone else to be interested in my holiday in the same way I’m not overly interested in anyone else’s

Surely that depends on what happened on the holiday.

Cant believe the responses to be honest. I think its really rude! And I also genuinely love hearing about people's holidays! I dont want to sit and look at 2000 photos no, but a bit of a chat is normal and polite in my circles with both friends and collegues!

Why is it weird, my friends always message me the day of my flight to wish me a good flight home and the day after I get back to ask if I had a good trip?

In between cousins, colleagues, friends and family, it can be hard to remember who has been where.

I definitely do not get offended if someone doesn't ask me about my holiday. There are lots of ways to show someone you care.

do you specifically get in touch with them to ask about holiday? Sorry but that's weird.

My mum doesn't even do that - holidays will come up in a conversation, but she won't call just to ask!

Do you expect men to ask less than women?

No? Why?

If I meet someone who is back from holiday, yes I would ask them - it's just small talk. I wouldn't get out of my way to ask.

If I randomly see them in the street or somewhere, it probably wouldn't even cross my mind.

That's what social media is for. Put your photos on instagram and facebook, those who are interested comment, those who aren't, they just scroll past.
And it's a nice reminder for you when you look back.

Yes but sadly this distinction is more often ignored these days. Frw people even know the two have totally different meanings.

I might remember to ask or I might not. I don't expect anyone to ask me.

I like hearing about someone's travels if they're interesting or unusual or something I'd love to do myself, or a place I know nothing about and have loads of questions about. But I'm not massively interested in hearing about someone's week relaxing by a pool and the quality of the hotel breakfast buffet and whether their kids liked the entertainment. I've absolutely no problem with that kind of holiday; I'm not a travel snob and I can totally see why a lot of people enjoy them, but they're not super interesting to hear about.

It kind of depends.

I don't really care about your two weeks' AI in Mallorca, short of 'have a nice time? Good.'

Scaling mountains in Peru? Backpacking in Kazakhstan? Pony-trekking in Finland? Brilliant, tell me all about it.

Depends. If I know you went somewhere interesting, I would ask how you found it, or how you think a vegetarian might fare in Rwanda, or about public transport in the Carpathians. If you went on an AI and didn’t leave the resort, I don’t care, unless it was attacked by aliens or had a typhoon. If you are the kind of person who starts with your trip to the airport and a blow by blow description of the flight, and wants to continue to describe the transfer, your accodation etc, I won’t ask you even if you went somewhere interesting.

If people are asking it's primarily out of politeness rather than desperation to know every detail. Everyone knows other people's holiday snaps are tedious to look at.

It was fun for you. Tell people about it spontaneously. Don't expect people to be queuing up in eager anticipation to hear about it as it's just never especially interesting. So I wouldn't care if someone asked about it or not.

Why would you assume they would remember, though? It's not their holiday. It's not a meaningful event for anyone but the actual holidaymaker. I'd remember if one of my friends had, eg, been to their dad's funeral or got married or moved house since I last saw them, but not necessarily that they'd had a week in Mallorca.

Friends and relatives is one thing, but colleagues is another level of annoyance. Alongside pet dogs, holidays seems to be the only topic of conversation at my workplace. And it doesn't stop at recent vacations. Oh no, it's holidays from years ago, where they would like to go, friends and relatives of theirs holidays 😡. It is a bit galling as half of us are struggling financially, while the higher ups and hubsidised prattle on endlessly.

I like looking at people's holiday pictures on Facebook, as I am interested in travel, but not being held hostage while someone bombards me on person with the phone photos.

UNinterested = lack of interest

DISinterested = no investment/not partisan

i don’t expect people to be interested in my holidays, no. Even if they were polite enough to ask, I’d not say much.

I ask out of courtesy…but I prefer a ‘yes, it was lovely’ type answer, I really don’t want to know any more details other than that.

People ask me which I’m surprised at as I’m away so often.
I always ask others as I’m genuinely interested.

I think most people do ask, but I don't expect it and I don't think it's rude not to ask. It's a holiday, not a stay in hospital. And to be honest, if someone has lots of friends they're not necessarily going to remember who's been on holiday and who hasn't.

I'd probably ask 'Good holiday?' but unless they'd been somewhere really interesting or unusual, that would all I'd ask

I try this but with some people they just don't give up. I spoke to someone in the office yesterday who I haven't seen since I got back four weeks ago (so we're not close or particularly pally) and it was followed by:

Where did you go again?
Was it just you and your husband?
Was the food good?
Was the weather hot?
Did you do a few beach days?

Etc.. by the end my OWN eyes had glazed over.😂