Window seat
This week I've seen out of my office windows:
- Scary black smoke from a raging fire at a nearby warehouse;
- Three news copters suspended in air over the same fire, cementing my belief that helicopters are the best flying contraptions ever created;
- Clouds up close and personal as a summer thunderstorm ran through the state, said, "Hey, I'll make you cooler," and then left in a jiffy, causing the temperatures to soar;
- About 100 red and orange balloons (illegally) released into the sky and (relunctantly) headed for Alabama. Poor balloons...what'd they ever do to anybody?
What I didn't see was another tourist in the stupid Aeroballoon ride at Underground. It's supposed to simulate a hot-air balloon ride, but only safer...and boring-er. It's attached to all these cables, it only goes up 350 feet in the air and it only lasts 10 minutes. For all that thrill, it costs $20.
You do not thrill me.
True, that's a tenth of what a real hot-air balloon ride costs, but I believe there's some things in life that shouldn't be done half-assed.
- If you're going to drink beer, drink some real beer.
- If you're going to play the lottery, play for some real money.
- If you're going to travel to another country, stay for more than 2 days and eat the local food (dammit).
- And if you're going to fly around in a balloon, fly in a real balloon without cables.
Hell, the Aeroballoon doesn't even go higher than my floor. Tell you what. Come into my building and I'll let you look out my fantastic view for only five bucks. Or take the $20 and drink a Trappist Ale, buy a few lottery tickets in the mega millions game (I said MEGA) and eat some pho with all the questionable cuts of meat. That'll last longer than 10 minutes and be a new kind of thrill.
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