Rant AND Rave: King Tut
Short Version: The exhibit is absolutely worth seeing. The people are not. If you can go on a VIP tour or at a time where the crowds would be thinner, I highly recommend it.
Long Version: I have a new topic: People are Stupid. Now, I'm not saying that I'm smarter than the average bear. I'm not. Basic math often eludes me, and if you read this blog you know that basic spelling is something with which I struggle. So its not that I think I'm better than anyone, I just can't handle stupid people.
I went to see King Tut. As I always do, I tried to obtain tickets for the earliest possible time. I'm that guy. I'd rather get up at 6am to get to the outlets by 9am than sleep in. I just can't be bothered hunting for parking and standing in line, and all that nonesense. I'd rather just be a wee bit earlier and skip all that.
Sadly, the 9am slot on the weekends was pretty much booked for Tut's entire run so I opted for 10am Sunday. As instructed, we arrived 30 minutes early and stood in the switch-backs. As we're standing there, behind us was arguably the dumbest family ever. I wanted to take my own life standing there listening to them. Luckily for everyone in the family, everyone was equally stupid so no one annoyed a fellow family member with their own stupidity.
Even after the explanation was made on how to operate the audio tours, they were completely lost. And when one person would figure out how to use it, they'd have to repeat it twice to each person, so that they could understand. And, while they listened to the device, they would repeat was Mr. Shariff was saying so that everyone else would know, eventhough EVERY person in the family had the audio tour.
Now we're nearing the entrance another family comes up beside us, in a shorter line. This undid the family behind us. Of couse they missed the fact that the person leading the family beside us was in a wheelchair. No, no, no, they were obsessed with the fact that another line MIGHT be faster than ours. Heaven forbid another family wait 3 less minutes than the rest of us. Oh the horror! The horror! And lets get all upset before we look at the entire family to see that the dad is in a wheelchair.
And I won't even talk about that poor little girl. You can ask me the story but I won't put her through the embarrassment of being described in this odd little blog.
Finally, after living through the dumbest family ever, we get to go in to see the artifacts from King Tut's tomb. I didn't know this but they also filled the exhibit with artifacts from tombs of his family, some of which were just facinating. There was this one chair made for a child that was simply amazing. It was new. There were 2 creases in the caning of the seat from where the child sat, but it was otherwise perfect. The carving and the detail was stunning; it looked newer than chairs in my house. Just to think that a child from the ruling family of what was at the time the civilized world sat there was --- the crowds and the pushing and the kids running around and the hands on the glass, sort of took away from the experience of seeing 3000 year old artifacts from a world we can only guess at, a time we can only wonder about.
Long Version: I have a new topic: People are Stupid. Now, I'm not saying that I'm smarter than the average bear. I'm not. Basic math often eludes me, and if you read this blog you know that basic spelling is something with which I struggle. So its not that I think I'm better than anyone, I just can't handle stupid people.
I went to see King Tut. As I always do, I tried to obtain tickets for the earliest possible time. I'm that guy. I'd rather get up at 6am to get to the outlets by 9am than sleep in. I just can't be bothered hunting for parking and standing in line, and all that nonesense. I'd rather just be a wee bit earlier and skip all that.
Sadly, the 9am slot on the weekends was pretty much booked for Tut's entire run so I opted for 10am Sunday. As instructed, we arrived 30 minutes early and stood in the switch-backs. As we're standing there, behind us was arguably the dumbest family ever. I wanted to take my own life standing there listening to them. Luckily for everyone in the family, everyone was equally stupid so no one annoyed a fellow family member with their own stupidity.
Even after the explanation was made on how to operate the audio tours, they were completely lost. And when one person would figure out how to use it, they'd have to repeat it twice to each person, so that they could understand. And, while they listened to the device, they would repeat was Mr. Shariff was saying so that everyone else would know, eventhough EVERY person in the family had the audio tour.
Now we're nearing the entrance another family comes up beside us, in a shorter line. This undid the family behind us. Of couse they missed the fact that the person leading the family beside us was in a wheelchair. No, no, no, they were obsessed with the fact that another line MIGHT be faster than ours. Heaven forbid another family wait 3 less minutes than the rest of us. Oh the horror! The horror! And lets get all upset before we look at the entire family to see that the dad is in a wheelchair.
And I won't even talk about that poor little girl. You can ask me the story but I won't put her through the embarrassment of being described in this odd little blog.
Finally, after living through the dumbest family ever, we get to go in to see the artifacts from King Tut's tomb. I didn't know this but they also filled the exhibit with artifacts from tombs of his family, some of which were just facinating. There was this one chair made for a child that was simply amazing. It was new. There were 2 creases in the caning of the seat from where the child sat, but it was otherwise perfect. The carving and the detail was stunning; it looked newer than chairs in my house. Just to think that a child from the ruling family of what was at the time the civilized world sat there was --- the crowds and the pushing and the kids running around and the hands on the glass, sort of took away from the experience of seeing 3000 year old artifacts from a world we can only guess at, a time we can only wonder about.
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