That’s on my bucket list.” <Wince> I hate the term “bucket list.” I know it’s supposed to be a nice thing, like, “Oh I will have ever so many lovely experiences before I die,” but to me it’s just an excuse drawer, a mental laundry pile never to be folded. When people say “on my bucket list,” what I hear is, “I don’t want that enough to actually do it.” For example, the Bonneville Salt Flats. “Speed Week, totally on the bucket list.”
Well, go then. It’s just a hotel room, or if you’re broke, free camping near the truck stop. Do you think it’s going to be there forever? The salt is thinning, it was rained out two years in a row, government agencies are getting less and less…