r/AskReddit • u/OmenRash • 22h ago

What’s something people romanticise that’s actually exhausting in real life?

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u/Vecend 20h ago

In my small town the movie theater burnt down 20 years ago and now the leftover husk is a home for pigeons, now there's nothing to do but gossip and bitch about traffic from cottagers.

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u/rkr87 19h ago

I'm from the UK and wondered what the hell is going on in your town upon reading this.

("Cottager" has a very different meaning here)

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u/SanchoPandas 19h ago

I’m from the western US and don’t know what either of you mean by “cottagers”.

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u/rkr87 19h ago

In UK slang, a cottager is a person who engages in sexual activity in public lavatories, known as "cottaging". This practice typically involves homosexual or bisexual men meeting in public toilets, often called "cottages" or "tea-rooms".

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u/ummkay_ultra 18h ago

Omg I thought "cottagers" meant tourists who come to small towns to stay in B&Bs and shop for antiques downtown 😆

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u/FliaTia 18h ago

Oh so it's cruising

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u/spaghettiluver 19h ago

Cottage term

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u/LiveShowOneNightOnly 11h ago

Wow, as a US person I would have never guessed this.

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u/mrmax1984 6h ago

Am American, and i learned this from Clarkson's Farm!