Spring Break Stuck at "The Office"
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Spring Break Stuck at "The Office"

Explained through GIFs from The Office.

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Spring Break Stuck at "The Office"

Let me tell you a little something about Spring Break: It can be a time for incredible fun, wild parties, boozin', cruisin', winnin' and losin'. But what people forget about is the awfully painful week that those of us experience when we're stuck at home: the binge eating, the never-ending Netflix marathons, the shame that follows the binge eating and Netflix marathons, and the most severe case of FOMO your doctor has ever seen.

Since The Office happens the be the most perfect, marathon-able show on television, I felt it most fit to help describe the angst felt by those of us left in the metaphorical dust of Spring Break's takeoff. Here is a list of feelings we all experience when we're stuck at home while our friends are living out the quintessential college Spring Break trip (explained by GIFs from The Office).

When everyone is posting bikini/beach pics on Instagram and you're sitting at home eating a bowl of stale Halloween candy from 2012:

When your friends FaceTime you and tell you all about their fabulous time in Mexico, The Dominican Republic or wherever else they went that has some kind of poolside bar and camera man that follows them around:

When your friends complain about their sunburns from laying on the beach too long (even though they went tanning for 14 weeks in advance to get the perfect base shade to prevent this atrocity from happening):

When your mom asks why you didn't want to go on Spring Break with your friends (after she forbid you from going on the trip less than a month ago):

When you've been watching Netflix for 12 hours straight and it has the audacity to pause your show and ask if you're still watching:

When your parents say they notice you've gained weight since the last time they saw you, and that maybe you should work out over break instead of consuming all of the raw cookie dough the local grocery store has in stock:

When you're dragged to a family gathering (let's assume it's someone's 92nd birthday party) and are forced to listen to the same story about Uncle Ed's colonoscopy for the 28th time this year (oh, yeah, and your friends are currently taking body shots off of Channing Tatum):

When you finally scrape together a group of other unfortunate friends who are home for break, and you pick them up for a day of adventure (a.k.a. you end up shopping at Kohl's together, getting Cold Stone and then napping):

When your mom asks why you get up at 2 p.m. and never leave the house (except that one day when you went to Kohl's) instead of making the most of your week off:

When you finally go in public after wearing the same clothes for three consecutive days (with surprisingly no stains on them) and see that guy you hooked up with for three months in high school:

When your sorority pledge class continues to use your GroupMe while away on Spring Break together to talk about "Where are we meeting to pregame tonight?" and "Can I borrow your glitter pasties for the club?":

When it's the end of the week and your boredom has become so overwhelming that you will do anything to entertain yourself:

When your friends come back saying how much they don't remember because they were...uhhh...confused (to put it nicely) the entire time they were away, and you're still bitter about being involuntary Sober Sister for a week:

When it's the first night out when you're back at school after Spring Break and things are finally back to normal:

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