CockneyRebel wrote:
I'd like to re-discover America, but I need to get a Passport before I do so. It's such a beautiful Country. I hear that the South is like Heaven.
You should come discover us... In my town, this dude has taken 3 Routemasters and turned them into mobile coffee shops. It's too hot here in the summer, so only one is functioning now, but in the winter, you'll find them at the touristy spots. It's good coffee..
Anyway, I picked the someone else option 'cause of the Bering Strait things. I think we should have "Asiatic Persons Crossing the Bering Strait Day" instead of "Slave-trading Italian Colonialist Cleverly Disguised as an Explorer, Who Was Working for the Spanish Day". And no sales should be allowed on APCtBS Day. One of my big huge pet peeves is using a national holiday as an excuse for a sale. I can maybe tolerate like Labor Day (since it was a holiday for the working people, who could use a break) but doing it for the Fourth of July, or Veteran's Day? Hello, my dad fought in Vietnam so I'm gonna celebrate by getting 2 for 1 bras at Victoria's Secret! Or hey, it's Memorial Day! Let's remember our war dead by going to the shoe store cause Everythings Half Off! and we can get Manalo Blaniks CHEAP! In my house, National and Religious Holidays are designated no shopping days. The ONLY thing I will purchase on these days is groceries, if neccessary, (usually it's not, since I plan ahead.) or it's an emergency. Like when I gashed my thumb last Memorial Day and I had to get stitches, and then go to the pharmacy for adhesive tape and gauze and anti bacterial wound wash. I really wasn't planning on remembering by displaying the bone in the tip if my thumb for the world to admire.
Sorry for the Tangental Ranty Thing.
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sarah