Meteor Crater took away a piece of his childhood and thirty bucks
Before I start my rant, please take a moment to think about this important meme and post your answer in the comments section.
If you saw me in the back of a police car, what would you think I got arrested for?
Written yesterday:
We’re four hours outside of Vegas, back on the road after “Cratergate 2008″. Meteor Crater in Flagstaff Arizona is a complete and total rip off. It’s rampant with white haired control freaks, out of date and repetitive museum information and locked doors and signs telling you that the only way to walk the crater is with a guided tour that only goes half a mile. The price is $15 admission for adults. None of this info is listed on their website.
Andy went there as a child and was able to walk around it and assumed it would be the same. We left a few minutes after we entered, when we found out we couldn’t hike around it. If they would have posted it somewhere we wouldn’t have bothered. We brought a liter of water for god’s sake. We were so annoyed that I brought up, and Andy agreed that we should ask for our money back.
I don’t know if you guys understand the magnitude of that last statement. Andy does not like to cause a fuss. For him to walk down to the entrance and politely say that we had just come in and the only reason we had was to walk around the crater, was a sign to me that he was really ticked off. The seventy year old “security” lady with grandma hair, in no uncertain terms said, “No, we can’t give you your money back, you’ve already seen the crater”.
Yes, it was true. We had seen the crater and thirty dollars was a totally reasonable price to pay to see a huge hole in the ground.
Andy said “okay”, turned around and while walking down the steps to our car yelled, “Bad Crater. Mess you up!” (a la Seinfeld) Which to me, was totally worth the thirty dollar expense.
Now, on to today:
Too tired to type. Hiking/climbing to the top of this was very, very hard.
Probably something about disturbing the peace regarding some wheat grass you somehow forgot to pay for and or some disagreement over you haven’t used all of the introductory priced sessions of some foot massage program.
i just went on a trip and was so excited that i would be passing by the meteor crater. i had read about it in a book called ‘a short history of nearly everything’
i took the 6 mile detour (which is a big deal when i had to go 13 hours that day…) and was so irked when i saw that not only would i have to pay 15 bucks to just check it out, but also that they had fences around the thing like it was a locked down nasa sight. i told them i was just going to go back to the dirt road and go check it out for free, they almost called the police. so instead i did a burn out in their parking lot and left.
just wanted you to know that i too think it was a rip off.
Thanks for that.
The comment made me laugh in solidarity and feel better about the irritation.