Planes: With so many people around, there is no escaping annoyance.

I flew home for Easter this year. This is the first time in years, so I am pretty excited about it.

As we were about to touch down in Minneapolis/St. Paul I noticed that we were flying over a sight I had not seen in awhile. There was a lake with trees growing out of it, which was clearly due to flooding, but strange looking, all the same. I turned to the guy next to me and said, "Ha, that's funny...look at that." He gave me a confused look and said, "That's a lake." I tried to explain that yes I knew it was a lake, but the plant life was larger than the usual lilypad. He didn't understand, merely went into an explanation that there was a lot of water in Minnesota. "It's the land of 10,000 lakes," he said proudly as I turned away from him and rolled my eyes.

My main problem with this is that I LIVE in Minnesota and I am well aware of the fact that there are a lot of lakes. Even if I hadn't spent the majority of my life seeing the "Land of 10,000 lakes" on the license plates...it isn't as though it is a new slogan. Most people know it. This guy seemed to be informing me, as though I didn't know.

So...

All that water...a LAKE?
A LAKE in MINNESOTA?
The same place I've LIVED IN SINCE I WAS SIX?

You're kidding...