Without Steve Buscemi or William H Macy......Fargo is no fun.....

So I was in St. Cloud, MN yesterday staying at the Best Western Kelly Inn which is about an hour north of Minneapolis.  St Cloud is a town where I get the idea that if the downtown didnt have so many vacant spaces for lease, or stores just shut down, it could be a cool/funky place.  There were some little business like a costume store, a thai place, a burger place and of course like 5 bars, but there could have been alot more.  I asked the front desk where they go to eat, and they recommended a place called Satwadee, the Thai place.  I got the spicy noodles, and they were damn good.   I watched the rest of Ratatouille (Yes, I am apparently still 7 years old) and went to bed.  

The next day I wake up and I am a zombie.  Its like the past couples days of having no sleep have caught up to me, and I just flat out cant function.  I manage to get all the mornings shit together for the seminar, but when I went to go meet the staff at the hotel, I went up and said 'Hi' to the people helping me and they glanced at me with a blank stare and didnt say anything and walked away.....fuckin dicks....... I mean maybe people from Minnesota are just socially retarded, but I met some nice people in Minneapolis who were cool.  Oh and another thing, I went to go fill up my gas, wearing my business suit to the gas station, went into the store, held the door for 2 guys in camo who stared at me and didnt say a god damn thing. No smile, no thank you, didnt touch me or the door, just like expected me to do it.  Everyone (probably about 6 people) in that fuckin Holiday gas station was staring at me like I was some alien from Your-anus (yea I just did that).  I think it is small town feel or attitude or something, I dont know.  I thought St. Cloud was decent overall.  

Well I drove to Fargo, ND and was staying in a Best Western again.  This one was a conference center as well, and just as sub-par as yesterdays Best Western.  My speaker takes the car to get something to eat, and I find myself with 3 decisions for dinner, a Chuck E. Cheese,  a Green Mill (sorta like TGI Fridays) or a Hooters.  Well first I went to the gas station and got a shot glass for the collection, but then made my way to the Green Mill.  It was packed and they said a to-go order would take a while, so I went to.......... HOOTERS!!!!!  I secretly wanted to go there for the wings and experience, but didnt want to be that scumbag sitting alone at a Hooters bar.  I know, I am a real classy guy.  This place was packed.  I mean of course there were fatass truckers sitting alone gawking at these scantly clad hott chicks, excuse me....uh huh....women but there were also like high school people on dates.  Really?!?!  Hooters for a high school date?? God Bless America.  Well anyways they had 9.99 all you can eat wings, and I got that.  Delicious. I washed it down with a beer (should have gotten a straight Budweiser with my fried chicken wings in Hooters to complete the equation because that is just straight Ameri-Can.....right Steve?).  Anyways, good meal overall.  Came back to my room, which is the size of a sardine can, watched the GU WSU b-ball game, fell asleep thinking about the horrible 2nd half WSU had and what an amazing 2nd half GU had.  I woke up this morning, set up everything in the room while half asleep.  Signed 8 people into the seminar and headed to Starbucks.  I asked if they had the breakfast sandwiches, and the woman behind the counter said that North Dakota Starbucks dont serve the sandwiches.  She then asked me where I was from and why I was here.  I told her Seattle, and sarcastically she said, "Oh you must feel lucky to be here"  to which I reply, "Sure am" and her response is "Well have fun in a state that is not fun."  I was kinda shocked, but felt bad that even the people here think North Dakota just isnt that exciting.  Oh well, tell it like it is i guess.

I head to Bismark, ND tonight on a 3 hour drive and stay at another Best Western.  I dont really like Best Westerns.  I have the sneaking suspicion that under management requirements for hiring an employee it says,"Make sure employee acts like a bag of shit when dealing with clients."  I just havent experienced good service (Im being nice with that....alot of the people who I have talked to the past 2 days acted like I had held them down and farted in their face....which would have been AWESOME!!!!.....when i asked them a question or inquiry) at Best Western.  The employees are just ridiculously lazy and pathetic.  Okay, rant done.  Maybe Bismark will be different.  I fly out tomorrow around 5 and land back in Seattle around 1130.  Awesome timing.  well i gotta run to Chuck E Cheese to get my speaker a small pizza with very little sauce.....the demands i have to do and take with this job make me feel like a bitch sometimes....glass half empty eh?  Anyways...deuces from Fargo, ND....