Amazing Race, How Sweet The Sound

The kids fell asleep before 8:15 so that left the husband and I time for...The Amazing Race (yeah, pathetic).

Thankfully, there weren't too many "dating models" or "aspiring actors" but they still cast to a formula. Gay son/PFLAG parent, beefcake brothers, cheesecake blondes, a couple of homelier women, guys you'd likely see at a Star Trek convention, old gits, gay couple, African-American couple, long-distance couple, couple dating off-and-on, etc.

I'm told the next race will be made of teams of four, with one of them being a minor. That should slow them down a bit. "Check the Berlitz. How do you say 'McDonalds' in Hindi?"

The husband has a complaint about the disproportionate casting of gay people. "Shouldn't it be one in 10, as opposed to five in 22?" He later recanted, stating that the gay couple this time were going to be the most fun to watch.

YOU try finding a clue in a bunch of haystacks