Racers, meet Lithuania! The teams finally got out of Africa and boarded several flights for Vilnius, Lithuania, and the travel alone nearly took out the group. We got to see clumsy Nicolas piss everyone off at the ticket counter as he tried to be calculating, but it backfired when an angry ticketing agent screwed them out of a better flight. Never has karma been more efficient than on this season of the Race.
Finally the teams arrived in Vilnius and found the Detour, find an old lady and deliver her basket to a freshly scrubbed coed at the local university who then had the racers deliver a book to yet another Lithuanian. This challenge almost put the final nail in Nate and Jen’s coffin, and now it is so obvious why Nate cheated on her. Why wouldn’t he? She brings out the worst in him and lacks any apparent virtue herself. These two went back and forth with insults and Nate actually told Jen, “I can’t believe what kind of person you’ve turned into…it’s the ugliest things I’ve ever seen in my life”. Wow! That cuts to the quick bro. Those comments, however true, are the kind of terrible daggers that kill any love and trust in a relationship; if you’ve gotten to the place where you’re casually slinging morsels like that your union is doomed. Later on at the Detour Jen and Nate could not agree on a method for counting fence pickets, so Nate resorted to his own system of annihilating the remnants of his girlfriend’s self esteem by calling her a bitch. These two say dreadful things when they think the cameras aren’t catching the action, and they are exactly the kind of people who claim they were the victims of bad editing.
Daddy Dearest Ronald was at it again with his incessant haranguing and chatter, and he drove his poor daughter and everyone else within earshot to drink. In fact, you could turn Ronald’s negativity in a drinking game. Every time Ronald says something critical (and every time you wish him an early grave) you take a swig, and guaranteed you’ll be drunk as a skid row floozy by act two. Last week Lynn and Alex (actually it was just Alex) bet me Ronald and Christina would be eliminated and I totally disagreed. If they were eliminated I’d have to kiss Alex on the mouth, but if they placed better than last (they had a 5/6 shot) the married men would have to bring me cupcakes. Needless to say I was snacking on frosted nibble bits all Monday morning.
Unemotional TK and Rachel finally had reason to celebrate. This mysterious twosome celebrated like a couple of Manchester United fans when they finally reached the mat first as their good karma and constant support bolstered them to a win. I hope a positive, well-balanced team wins this season of the Race. I know toxic couples have a way of doing well, but the last thing we need is a repeat of Eric and Danielle in a encore celebration of dysfunction.
