Minnetonka Sundays
Recollections by a Subjective Viewer

For the past nine months, I have been either living or working in Minnetonka, a suburb of Minneapolis. During this time, I have been given enough evidence to develop this law: People from Minnetonka are the most self absorbed, pretentious and uncultured people I have ever met.

Notice that I did in fact say law, not theory, not idea, not notion. An actual law. Stalker's Law of Minnetonka is obviously not a mathematical or scientific law, but rather a societal one.

During my stay in Minnesota, which was perpetuated mainly by the allure of the University of Minnesota's Journalism department, I have been employed by Borders Books. It is through my job as a full time bookseller/cashier/periodicals specialist that I have been exposed to the kind of people that call Minnetonka home.

Minnetonka, I suppose, is fairly similar to any upper class suburb of a major city. I liken it to Bellevue, which itself plays second fiddle to Seattle, my old home. However, even in Bellevue, I didn't see near the number of SUVs, expensive foreign sedans. And the lack of ethnic diversity in Minnetonka is something that none of the citizens seem to concern themselves with or even acknowledge, something I find to be incredibly disturbing.