Eric and Pink make it to the underwater cave and fetch their clue. Charla and Mirna get in their jeep and head for Shipwreck Beach. Elsewhere, the BQs find the Detour clue and decide to go with Under. As Eric and Pink read the clue for Shipwreck Beach, you'll notice that Pink is soaked and looks a little bit like somebody just hit her in the face with a ping-pong paddle, while Eric is dry. This is because she just did the Roadblock. The Roadblock that involved diving off a cliff and, as I understand it, kind of face-planting in Pink's particular case. Dustin and Kandice, in the meantime, are having a little trouble with the underwater cave, and Dustin explains that the whole thing made her feel panicky, and trying to time it so you could get under instead of getting forcefully sprayed in the face by the edge of the cave was kind of difficult. Eric and Pink are back in their jeep, leaving for the beach. In the cave, the BQs are having a hard time, because Dustin really kind of freaked out about the difficulty breathing, but they get out and head back to their boat. Once again, we see soaking Dustin and the dry Kandice (Dustin did the Roadblock) as they read the clue for Shipwreck Beach. They note that there hasn't been much of an opportunity to catch up -- yet.
Charla and Mirna find Shipwreck Beach, and Mirna starts yelling at Charla to run. There's a change of pace. They head down the beach, and Charla supposes that going in the grass might be easier than what they're doing, which is walking on the rocks. Eric and Pink and the BQs are behind, and it turns out that they arrive at Shipwreck Beach close together. "Charla, you HAVE to RUN!" Mirna orders -- up ahead of the other teams, but only slightly. She's apparently under the impression, once again, that this is about Charla simply not putting in the effort necessary to run faster on her foot-long legs. God. Eric and Pink pass Charla and Mirna as Mirna continues yelling at Charla to run. If Mirna thinks she's so blessed mentally, why is she too fuckin' stupid to notice that Charla's legs are too short to allow her to leap from rock to rock and "run" on the rocks? Her legs are too short; SHUT UP about it already. This is what makes me nutsy about this particular situation, and Mirna isn't the first person to be guilty of it: whatever weaknesses your partner has that you obviously know about, if you can't tolerate them, don't take the person. But you can't take the little person with you and keep bitching that she's a slow runner. You knew that. This is her. Take her or leave her, but don't take her and then act like somebody put a goddamn gun to your head. You can't take your 70-year-old dad and complain that he's old, or your really unathletic and uncoordinated friend and complain that he's really unathletic and uncoordinated. If someone is intrinsically beneath you as a partner, then take someone else. Otherwise? Quiet.













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