One of those 'sigh' Sundays

Dear Blog Readers,

Hope you're well. I figure my highly opinionated and egotistical reviews don't count as proper blogging so I feel compelled to continue.

What do you guys think of highly attentive restaurant managers? I ask because at a birthday dinner in a South Wimbledon restaurant I attended on Friday, the manager came over repeatedly and joked, grinning widely with the birthday lady and the other close friends and even, I heard, offered one of her disabled friends a free meal. Now at the risk of sounding pompous and downbeat, I dislike the approach. I find it akin to overly-aggressive advertising.

One day a few months ago I went out for a birthday meal with my dad and nan. Close to leaving, my dad enquired as to if the manager knew one of his friends, a man who recently died, who had attended the restaurant a few times. Judging by the responses, which were very generalised and picked off of my dads descriptions, I got the feeling the manager only said yes in order to gain familiarity and thus, more possible business. This, I thought, was nasty.

So I don't know. I don't want to go on much about it, as I'd imagine she could very well have entered the restaurant business with the aim to make customers happy and to laugh and joke with them. I guess I just find business transactions more opaque then others. After all, working at Debenhams showed me how dedicated but often soulless managers tried to squeeze all they could out of employees. Customers were there to be drained.

Anyway, on to proper fun, went to Thorpe Park yesterday. For those of you not familiar with Thorpe Park, I would say that it is amongst the top 3 best theme parks in the UK, I'd say #1 but I haven't been to many outside London. It was Fright Night season, so there was a spooky theme prevalent. Me and me mates Danny and Adam drove up earlier and got in the queue for the new Saw ride, only for it to break down once and then pause for thunder a short time after. All in all we waited around 2 an a quarter hours for it but it was pretty worth it, a vertical rise then a 100 degree angle drop started what was a pretty amazing ride, twists and turns galore. And the queues are always so much easier to handle when you have mates to joke around with.

We met up with more friends later and went on such infamous rides such as Nemesis, Stealth, Vortex, Detonator and No way out. Stealth as usual was the scariest, 0 - 80 MPH in about 1.7 seconds, a MASSIVE rise of what I read is 204 feet and then the slow-then-fast plummet and return. All in all lasts about 10 seconds but its just the most incredible rush that the wait is so worth it. Fastest roller coaster in Europe and I'd damn well put money on it being the most intense too. Detanator is my least favourite. Basically involves being taken up a vertical post and dropped about 100 feet or so. Nerve racking and I always clench so hard I end up hearding my unmentionables. I fear I may have said too much..

Next week holds a comedy show on Tuesday and the Wombats on Thurs. Also I have just realised I turn 24 in 2 Fridays time. More scary then all the rides at Thorpe Park put together. Haven't really talked about this sigh Sunday, but it was, well, Sigh. Gym in the morning and little else, language revision needs to be stepped up if I'm to be a masterful international 'Gregory House-esk' traveller, solving crimes in Spanish and French worldwide. I'll keep you posted.

A question that's been bugging me today; does the postal service have an all weekend service that sorts out post even on Sundays or do even the backstage workers get the day off?

Cya soon.