Car repair? Horseback riding? Why not try Bird and Jim?
Okay, so yesterday, I couldn't have been in the Visitors Center for much over an hour, and because I wasn't conversing with anyone, I could overhear other people's conversations, including suggestions provided to tourists by the Ambassadors corps, which is similar to AmeriCorps, except 80 years older and equally unemployable post service. One couple was encouraged to go to Nederland, which is a strange referral from inside the Estes Park Visitors Center, unless the couple specifically requested to be anywhere besides where they currently were. But maybe Estes Park and Nederland have some kind of cross-referral quota they have to meet by the end of each calendar year. That is beside the point, which is:
If you are the owners of, or investors in, Estes Park's newest restaurant Bird and Jim, what I'm about to relate will please you greatly. If you are the owner of any other restaurant or business in town, you may want to dash off a friendly letter to your Visit Estes Park board, or to the head of the Ambassadors, or the paid staff at the Visitor's Center, or whoever. Because if you are a stakeholder other than a Bird and Jim stakeholder, you are (at least for the time I was listening) a grossly underrepresented one.
Regardless of question, regardless of topic, the answer provided was "Bird and Jim". Occasionally it was a non sequitur dropped on the table for no good reason.
Q: We were wondering about restaurants in the area...Okay, here is where I think the answer "Bird and Jim" would be entirely appropriate, provided it was in the context of other restaurants. Estes Park has other restaurants besides Bird and Jim. I'm not even an Ambassador and I know this.
Q: We wanted to watch some bowl games on New Year's Day, any suggestions?...Here is where it would not necessarily be entirely appropriate to offer "Bird and Jim" as first on the list, especially when, after a short pause, the person posing the query offered that he had heard about "The Wheel". "Oh, no, the Wheel will be too crowded, but Bird and Jim has a television generally tuned to sports."
So if having a television (and (potentially) not being crowded on holidays, although how is that predictable, especially by the Ambassadors corps, who probably haven't stepped into a downtown bar in years, and if they have, probably shouldn't be Ambassadors) is your criteria, just off the top of my head the following places of business have a television: Ed's Cantina, Claire's, Mary's Lake Lodge, the Stanley, heck, the lobby of every lodge or hotel currently in operation. Indeed, so does the YMCA, which if the TV in the ad building isn't tuned to sports, can certainly be switched to those channels.
Q: We were wondering if the road to Bear Lake is open.
A: "Well, you can head out to the main entrance of the national park. Things are a little bit confusing with downtown road construction right now, but you'll know you're going in the right direction when you reach a stoplight right next to our newest restaurant Bird and Jim..."
Q: Our 12-year-old son is in the car sweating profusely, with severe pain in his lower right abdomen.
A: "Perhaps he's hungry. Bird and Jim has an excellent choice of menu items for children and adults alike. Does he like hamburgers?"
Note: One of the the four preceding scenarios may not have been captured entirely correctly. But I didn't stick around until end of shift.
If you are the owners of, or investors in, Estes Park's newest restaurant Bird and Jim, what I'm about to relate will please you greatly. If you are the owner of any other restaurant or business in town, you may want to dash off a friendly letter to your Visit Estes Park board, or to the head of the Ambassadors, or the paid staff at the Visitor's Center, or whoever. Because if you are a stakeholder other than a Bird and Jim stakeholder, you are (at least for the time I was listening) a grossly underrepresented one.
Regardless of question, regardless of topic, the answer provided was "Bird and Jim". Occasionally it was a non sequitur dropped on the table for no good reason.
Q: We were wondering about restaurants in the area...Okay, here is where I think the answer "Bird and Jim" would be entirely appropriate, provided it was in the context of other restaurants. Estes Park has other restaurants besides Bird and Jim. I'm not even an Ambassador and I know this.
Q: We wanted to watch some bowl games on New Year's Day, any suggestions?...Here is where it would not necessarily be entirely appropriate to offer "Bird and Jim" as first on the list, especially when, after a short pause, the person posing the query offered that he had heard about "The Wheel". "Oh, no, the Wheel will be too crowded, but Bird and Jim has a television generally tuned to sports."
So if having a television (and (potentially) not being crowded on holidays, although how is that predictable, especially by the Ambassadors corps, who probably haven't stepped into a downtown bar in years, and if they have, probably shouldn't be Ambassadors) is your criteria, just off the top of my head the following places of business have a television: Ed's Cantina, Claire's, Mary's Lake Lodge, the Stanley, heck, the lobby of every lodge or hotel currently in operation. Indeed, so does the YMCA, which if the TV in the ad building isn't tuned to sports, can certainly be switched to those channels.
Q: We were wondering if the road to Bear Lake is open.
A: "Well, you can head out to the main entrance of the national park. Things are a little bit confusing with downtown road construction right now, but you'll know you're going in the right direction when you reach a stoplight right next to our newest restaurant Bird and Jim..."
Q: Our 12-year-old son is in the car sweating profusely, with severe pain in his lower right abdomen.
A: "Perhaps he's hungry. Bird and Jim has an excellent choice of menu items for children and adults alike. Does he like hamburgers?"
Note: One of the the four preceding scenarios may not have been captured entirely correctly. But I didn't stick around until end of shift.
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