(OT) Praise/rant/observation/shock of the day #2

[Eye of Hoffs]

So because I am up early again with nothing better to do, and despite me only being able to type at one sentence an hour on the wife's awful icrap thing, here is my praise/rant/etc of the day. This product is only available while internet access stocks last and the tablet remains free of damage from high-speed contact with a hard surface.

Praise
There's a lot to be said for smaller airports. We normally go from London but this time used Birmingham. The queue (that's 'line' for those of you who don't speak the Queen's English) to get through security was pretty small as was the one at Minneapolis. Heck, we even had a friendly US customs officer. You also don't need to take a Greyhound ride to get to the car rentals.

Rant
When did the asteroid hit Minneapolis?? There's construction everywhere downtown. Every other road was dug up, sidewalks closed, street name signs missing. We walked around the city for half a day and basically saw nothing of interest other than endless piles of gravel, unfinished Tarmac and a billion cranes or bulldozers. And how many times did we walk most of the way down a block only to find that there was no exit at the other end? The place is a mess. Okay, they have the vaunted Skywalk, but unless you are familiar with that then it's worse than the Labyrinth. And anyway, once again you would go down an exit there only to find it was locked and you'd have to go back whence you came. Grr...

And whilst we are on the subject of Minneapolis, the SQ for the city (that's Skirt Quotient, my personal rating of the females in the area and what they are wearing) was a very disappointing 3/10 at best in the Mall of America, maybe rising to a 3.5 or 4 elsewhere. I may as well have looked round the shops with Caroline instead of spending most of the time people watching. The mall brochure has this attractive girl in the short dress and red heels. Ha, I don't think so, everyone I saw looked like they just stepped out from a Nirvana concert. I should sue them.

And I won't even mention how I ended up going hungry last night because the stupid woman at IHOP brought me the wrong thing. It was some disgusting pancake instead. We queried it but she insisted it was right, so we just let it go, being British and polite and all that, but when we got back we checked the menu online and saw that she had indeed screwed up. So scratch another restaurant from the list of where I'll eat, and it was already in single figures. Okay, so I guess I lied and did mention IHOP.

So Minneapolis gets an F-. We were going to St Paul today, but one twin is more than enough so I think I'll stay in and watch the football instead.

Observation

Staggering amount of Muslims in this area it seems. I guess it is the equivalent of what Ohio/Penn is for the Amish. *Homer Simpson drool* Ah, Amish food...

Sign of the impending Apocalypse

We've been here two days now and visited the largest mall in North America, but we've still not seen a McDonalds...

[Zardoz of Crete aka Kimi aka Victoria Secret]

We've been here two days now and visited the largest mall in North America, but we've still not seen a McDonalds...

Oh God!  Tell them to pick one or two from Fort Smith, I am pretty sure we could spare that many since there seem to be one everywhere I look around here.

[Ian James]

Hoffs is all about the skirt quotient. I remember him complaining about stewardesses being too "matronly" one trip. Dude if you want to see beautiful people then the Midwest is not the place. And I'm defining beautiful people as the unobtainable not real people that they put in clothing ads and TV.


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[Ian James]

PS - what DID you order at IHOP


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[Mavia]

That is hilarious, construction never stops in Minneapolis

[Eye of Hoffs]

Hoffs is all about the skirt quotient. I remember him complaining about stewardesses being too "matronly" one trip. Dude if you want to see beautiful people then the Midwest is not the place. And I'm defining beautiful people as the unobtainable not real people that they put in clothing ads and TV.


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So how did Bergen in Norway score a 9 then, huh?

[Eye of Hoffs]

PS - what DID you order at IHOP


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I asked for (and pointed to), which Caroline confirms, the "Quick 2 egg breakfast" which is eggs, bacon, hash browns and toast. I got eggs, bacon and the pancake things.

[Sara Dale]

Call the manager.

[Razz]

I have been tracking you on the news Hoffs. The news is picking up random reports in the Midwest where a "crazed Brit is running around screaming that everyone is getting demerits".

[Ian James]

Dude, you gotta learn to send stuff back. That's when you pull the menu back out, point to the hashbrowns and toast and say, this is what I want, and you must have given me someone else's plate.

[CharGar]

I have been tracking you on the news Hoffs. The news is picking up random reports in the Midwest where a "crazed Brit is running around screaming that everyone is getting demerits".

ROFLMAO!!