The Bachelor...A 2 hour Escape from my life...?

I’m not sure how many viewers The Bachelor brings in each year however I know that each season I swear up and down that I won’t be one of them!... Again...and as you can guess this year I am back in front of my TV (during nap time...I can’t stay up that late anymore) wondering  who’s  gonna “win” the bachelor.

First off the idea of the show is completely ridiculous to me. A group of supposedly “smart” woman put their lives on hold to fall in love, on their first ever date with a man they have never met so at the end of the 3 months or so they can give up their lives and move away for a happily ever after marriage that I am sure will last forever.(Right?)

The whole idea behind getting to go away and share your days with a group of women sitting around talking about your feelings (gag) for the same man after going on what is obviously a “down to earth date” (as Ben said on the last episode, after picking a woman up in a helicopter and flying her away for a picnic in the middle of nowhere) over wine...is definitely my idea of a good time. To top it off, everyone on the show seems to be  unemployed for the duration...with no day to day hassles from the real world (i.e.: bills, family, work ,ect) and gets to travel to exotic locations, and have once in a lifetime (as they say each episode) experiences.  I could fall in love with that for sure! Who needs the Bachelor?

I think a good show would be The Bachelor...Times are Tough Edition. Why not see if all these same women would come out for this show. I think we should put them in a cramped apartment, and have them do low income dates...let’s have Ben in a crappy house with a kid or two and see how they deal with that. Then they could add some unexpected bills into the mix let’s say the purchase of a new roof...to spice things up. Now if you could get through a few months of that you can “win” the Bachelor.  They could even make a “reality” version where the bachelor would have to date old school/ find a girl in a bar/ or on Lava Life.  Now that would be “reality TV”.  As opposed to flying all over the fucking place.

Until then though I will continue watching the show and wasting 2 hours of my life each week shaking my head. Please don’t judge J

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January 25, 2012 1:09 PM

Tipping at Tim Hortons an Adventure with Nanny

While driving back from the hospital, we decided grabbing a Tim’s coffee was a good idea. After much discussion with my Nanny who is driving we decide there is no need to go in to the building, we can just go through the drive thru...to save time of course....Well not only did it not save time but once they finally got our order right ( 1 Medium double double, 1 LG Ice Cap, and 1 Medium Tea...I can see how they would have trouble with that :l ) we advanced to the next window to pay. Sounds simple enough...right? No. My Nanny who is in the driver’s seat pays the lady, takes her change back and starts to look through it. This takes a few moments and there is a line behind us going to the street. I assume this is because she is going to tip the lady at the window. She’s not...and as we are starting to pull away...

I say “Oh I thought you were going to tip her...?”

Nanny who has decided to brake because we need to talk about this while still in the line up, as we have not pulled far enough away so that the car behind us can get they’re order, nor are we close enough to the pick up window to see the clerk anymore says “Are you suppose to tip at Tim Hortons?”

I say “I think so...I typically do, but you’re holding up the line, lets go.”

Nanny “Well no Amanda, not if we’re suppose to tip her.” So on the 4 way lights go as Nanny has decided to back up...you can well imagine we can not back up! So she rolls her window back down so she can signal to the cars behind us that they NEED to back up.

We finally after what I’m sure was a good 3 minutes...but felt like forever, were able to get close enough to the window that we can just barely get the back of the our car window to the end of the pick up window where both parties: My nanny and the clerk are reaching their necks out to talk.

Nanny has a Looney and would like to change it for four quarters. The clerk is clearly annoyed and hands Nanny the 4 quarters. Nanny puts 50cents in the dash and goes to hand 50 cents back to the clerk, but realizes that this is a collectors quarter with some Olympic on it. So she hands her one quarter and apologises for not having tipped earlier while explaining that  she didn’t know she needed to...and proceeds to drive away.

Me “Seriously, we just backed everyone in the drive thru up so that you could tip her 25cents!!!!”

Nanny “What? I gave her 50 cents.”

Me “No, you didn’t you just kept the collectors quarter.”

Nanny “OMG, should I go back?”

My cousin who has been sitting in the back seat the whole time laughing her ass off spits some of her drink out while trying to say “God No!”

I don’t think I will be going back to that Tim Hortons location again!

Being Mandy

At the end of last year I started following a blogger after reading about "The Elf on the Shelf" I loved it! Which got me to thinking this could be a lot of fun! A little about me before I start getting all ridiculous, I work with children all day, have a 15 year old, and my Grandmother is my best friend, (don't tell anyone) and the source of a great deal of entertainment...there are many stories to come :)