Monday, April 13, 2009

Amazing Race-Broken Record in Bangkok

9:27 pm-Tammi and Victor
12:31-Jamie and Cara
12:46-Michael and Mark
12:53-Margie and Luke
1:05-Kisha and Jen
All are on the same plane to Bangkok to race to a boat yard where they will find their next clue. Here they have to assemble and attach a propeller to their boat and hop in to find their next clue. Margie shows she has some muscle and does this challenge very quickly while Victor can't tell the difference between a wrench and a screwdriver. I guess that's why he's a lawyer and not a mechanic. Let's pause here, would you leave your stuff in the taxi and make him wait or take your stuff with you because you are after all getting into a boat and sailing off to your next challenge? Huh, huh, you tell me? Do you think you're going to come back?-isn't it likely that you will be proceeding on? Come on guys! Kisha and Jen are even so stupid as to leave their pack with their passports and cash on the dock. Hello! Michael and Mark bicker like a married couple on whether or not to go back and retrieve their packs from the cab with Michael telling Mark that he doesn't care about winning, it's just about his stuff, stuff that can be replaced once they win!
The detour was broken teeth or broken record. Didn't they do that teeth challenge before? Here Margie and Luke were the only ones to do the broken teeth, trying to fit dentures into the mouths of toothless Asians (I think some of them were my relatives!). Hey were those the personal dentures mixed in with other people's dentures? Ugh, or as my friend Jeff said, it is Asia after all. Yeah, not great on that hygiene thing there. Poor Luke, he was all mixed up on how the dentures were supposed to go. It was pretty frightening to see a bowl full of teeth. Hey Luke, there is a difference between lower and upper dentures. Thankfully his mother knew what she was doing.
All other teams chose to do the broken record thing. Mark and Michael are sounding like a broken record themselves with them fighting with each other like rabid squirrels. Mark finally gets the upper hand and tells Michael that they need to go back to the cab and get their stuff because he has irreplaceable in his backpack. They spend so much money traveling in cabs that they have to give away personal trinkets (I'm wondering if some of it was Mark's irreplaceables?) to the taxi drives for not having enough money.
For the singing cab rides, the teams were joined by the local Thai hookers or transvestites. Mark actually thought they were cute, oh hello they're men!
I thought Kisha and Jen's idea of finishing the detour and then go back to get their stuff was a brilliant idea, not! Jeff, that party pooper told them that they had to get their packs with their travel documents before he could check them in. I thought surely they are a goner, but M & M came racing in, packs in tow only to find out they incurred 2- two hour penalties for using their own personal items as payment for cab rides. OUCH! What dummies! I think they better bone up on the rules before they start their next leg which they will gratefully participate in since this was a non-elimination round for them. They will however, have a 3 hour delay at the start and will have to do the speed bump. Let's just say they haven't a chance in Thailand to catch up unless another team is dumb and dumber.-Single D

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