The bitter bitter disappointment

Some people leak disappointment. It oozes from them like an arborial canker. We ran into one at Tullamarine. Michelle. Not the Ballaratian brunette bombshell variety but the Singapore Airline's ticket desk lady. Not only did she not deem my Level II First Aid Certificate (expired) as satisfactory qualification for an upgrade, she sat us next to the toilet. Not any toilet, but one that receives more daily visits than Sinjuku Station. You are an outrageous woman. Yes, I've spoken of this woman before but her name was brought up again when we met her match at the Highland ski resort. After a night in Aberdeen we cruised over the highlands, destination Inverness (which we never made it to), when we unexpectently ran into the heart of ski resort! To say this was a surprise would be putting it mildly. Obviously an opportunity too random to pass up, we went in to get a pass for the Chairlift which we deemed a mildly gnarley, Pepsi Max thing to do. What would have been even bigger on the Pepsi Maximeter would be taking the chairlift up and riding down on Mountain Bikes? The sign out the front said bikes for hire. So we went in to rent a bike and were told they didn't! "But the sign says you do!" "Oh nooo", she said. "Bike hire is an hour away". Oh right, no worries, makes sense. So we just got a chairlift ticket which really is pretty lame when you think about it, by itself. Three blokes riding up a chairlift in the middle of summer, legs swinging in the air; without a gnarley, extreme sport to satiate our masculine requirements. In fact, the trip up was so demasculating that I wanted to pick wildflowers when we got to the top. However, when we did make it to the top we discovered that you can ride billy-carts down an 'extreme' track to the bottom of the mountain. But not us, oh no. The disappointette had failed to inform us of the availability of this activity and thus we didn't hire the required helmets needed to use the billy-carts. Office lady- welcome to the Scotland trip hall of shame.