To be fed up of colleague talking about her holiday?

[LauraKaren]

That happened 4 years ago!

She even got me over to her computer to show me her itinerary

I can be happy for people and when they come back from holiday I of course want to hear about it, see photos etc

BUT when they’ve been banging on about it for the 2 years I’ve kmown them and it wasn’t even recent then, aibu to just want to scream - shut up already!

It sounds very odd but inviting we need to know where it was to!

Oh my god I couldn't care less about people's holidays even if they're actually on them at the time, never mind 4 years ago! So dull!

We need to know where she went...

Sounds like a Florida/Disney addict to me! Must be one in every work place.

Where did she go?
Mars?

My ex banged on about his holiday to Thailand with his ex, for many years after.
One of the reasons why he's my ex.

Unless she talks about it every 5 minutes of every day, YABU.

I bet she mentions it every so often and still gets excited. Maybe it was the first and only time she went away, or the happiest she’s ever been, or something she will never be able to afford again. Perhaps she is jealous of people affording to go away now or having a family to go away with, and it’s all she clings on to.

I’d rather hear about that than brain dead girls talking about Love Island and which sequinned dress they are wearing to the club tonight

YANBU

Other people's holidays are never as exiting for the listener than the holidayer!

I tend to take photos and send some by email to my parents, put some on Instagram (only have parents and siblings on there) and some on FB (quick way of sharing with distant friends and family).

But it's always a "had a great week away in Spain" type post.

I only then discuss it further if asked.

That happened 4 years ago!

Sorry but that did make me laugh!

No advice but wasn't expecting that

I like hearing about other people's holidays, unless it is a drinking/hotel based one.

When colleagues have gone to places like Vietnam and Japan, I've looked forward to seeing their pictures and hearing about it.

I also watch travel programs, even ones about people looking to buy property abroad. As well as wildlife programmes.

I think they are more likely to get fed up of talking about them, rather than me listening about them.

Some people can be really boring with their endless holiday talk and minute by minute account of what they did. But after four years well she does sound a bit batty tbh.

Come back OP and tell us of this dream destination

Maui?!

At least she's not being weird with you. Could be worse. Just give her the same reply every time, ''yes it looks amazing''. I've a colleague who goes to great lengths to manipulate the dynamics of who sits where on a coffee break. I've another colleague who starts every sentence with ''I'm 27!''.

OP please tell us where it was to!!!!!

I worked in a place where people were still talking about the (run of the mill) Christmas party in June, and I thought that was pathetic. But their talk was of the "Oh my god we were soooo drunk!" type that adults really should have grown out of in their teen years.

I would imagine there's something deeper going on here, though. My mum talks endlessly about the holidays I take her on because it was 60 years before she got to experience them, and they are wonderful and novel and exciting.

I would try to nod and act interested with your colleague.

Place marking as I really need to know where she went on holiday.

Was it Bognor?

Sorry doing Sunday errands and just got chance now to have a look.

She’s been on quite a few holidays since then and she likes to make subtle comments that she (more her partner) is well off.

Where did she go?

Or maybe it was TONGA?

Come on @LauraKaren where did she go....

I wonder if she's on MN. If you read this thread coworker, please tell us where you went on holiday.

"when they come back from holiday I of course want to hear about it, see photos etc "
Don't encourage the holiday bores with this behaviour.

Where did she go? Did she climb Everest? Base camp does seem to be a fairly ordinary "adventure tourism" destination now, but people who've done it do go on about it... Did she in-line skate across Africa or cycle from one end of the American subcontinent to the other?

If she's had other holidays in between there must be some reason she keeps banging on about one four years ago...

Could you "out holiday bore" her? Insist she comes over to your PC to view converted slides of that time your parents took you to stay in aunty Pauline's caravan in Skegness when you were 3? Email her a scanned photo of the ornament you brought back as a souvenir? Call her over to study Google maps street view and try to identify where the caravan would have been?

I remember going to a friends house as s young teenager and my friend who went on 2 holidays a year and was horrendously spoiled got out s box of slides and a wee viewer thing....after 2 hours of ‘thats me, my mum and my sister, that’s me my dad and my sister....’ I was ready to die. I had known her family since I was 5 so I knew who they were and it was just a serious of them all in similar poses in front of different bland things. I hatebhokiday bores. We have night out bores in our office ‘oh my god and then you said x to y and I laughed and then y said....’ the people were usually all onthe night out so why the need a blow by blow account I do not know!