Originally Posted by
The_Editor
I say heartening as I've had a few friends/family baffled as to why I wasn't going, which had left me feeling something of a chump for obeying the rules. But I'd rather that than a [insert expletive of choice] for not!
I had much the same reaction from many colleagues and some friends when I explained I was having Christmas alone in T4 rather than travelling to see family as planned. I was encouraged to find loopholes, or just go anyway as enforcement is so lax, and told that ‘everyone else is doing it so why don’t you’. I took the view that there comes a time when one just has to do the right thing, follow the spirit as well as the letter of the rules, and not move or mix despite any clauses technically allowing two week beach trips with a half hour timeshare presentation. So I suffered, because it’s simply the right thing to do. And if more people did the same thing, we wouldn’t be in the chaos we are right now.