The Amazing Race 12 Afterthoughts: Episode 10 – Happy Birthday, Jennifer ... Goodbye

I don't know the last time that I've been so happy to be wrong. I had the bad feeling that The Amazing Race editors were setting us up for a Nathan/Jennifer win in the final leg. All of her comments about it being their turn to be first or whining that they weren't first led me down the garden path. But I was wrong ... and I'm glad.

Jennifer left the same way she played. She was as unpleasant as ever, and her whining that it was her birthday was pretty amusing. I'm not sure if she really expected everyone to let her have her way on her big day or if she kept repeating it because she was prodded to. I can understand not wanting any unpleasantness on her birthday, but, honey, what goes around, comes around.

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The Amazing Race 12 Afterthoughts Episode 8

Stressed Spelled Backwards is Desserts

This is the point in The Amazing Race where we start to see what the teams are made of. Some handle stress relatively well, and some don't handle it well at all. They are all individual people and I expect them to have disagreements, but some of the teams take disagreements to a new level.

Take Nathan and Jen. I have to think that they are not bad people out of the Race atmosphere. They've been friendly with a couple of teams that must have seen something in them. What amuses me is that they brag about being competitive athletes and being in pressure situations and say that this is an edge for them. I've not seen it yet. Nate has been pretty laid back, but Jen? Whew ...

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