

The old-school English word for aprovechar was “thrift” or being thrifty. These days I hear it used mostly in the specific sense of saving cash. I don’t often hear it much anymore in terms of conserving resources, but that is where it came from, and if you use it in that sense people will understand you.
As for sobremesa, that’s not something I’ve enjoyed enough for it to have its own word, unfortunately.


You’re not wrong. It’s The Villages, Florida. Just outside Orlando, age-restricted, hard core Trumpland (or was before Covid). It’s where Republican leaders go for events when they don’t want to be heckled. Lots of golf carts, when they’re not running down bicyclists in actual cars.
Take that as you will, but it has been called a little Disney World for retirees, and that’s one of the nicer names. The epicenter of brittle entitlement, IMO. I am soooo not surprised by the overly gentle language used by the local fishwrapper to describe menacing with a vehicle, reckless endangerment, and attempted murder by a probably drunk woman who tried three separate times on the same occasion to run over the cyclists with her car.