1. April fool’s day! To be honest with you, I don’t ever believe that no one has ever try to pull a moronic prank on me on April first. do you think I am missing out on one of the finer things of life?
I believe April fools is a news media holiday anyways. Every year without fail, the news media gets a tongue in cheek, inside joke, kick out of telling some blatantly obvious some bogus news story. But they never present the bogus news story as genuine, it’s always presented at the end of the news broadcast in one of those smarmy “lighter side of…” segments. Thus, destroying what little credibility the story might would’ve had ( if any) if it was presented as something real. For shame.
2. Speaking of news-broadcasts, it always struck me funny whenever I watch news anchors go through fake mood wings depending on the stories they are reading. For example, being somber during a story where a innocent family has been murdered in their own home, then get happy and excited two seconds later when they present that old stock footage of a squirrel water skiing. (Remember that piece of footage? It was constantly brought back up and paraded around again and again back in the 80’s. What was the deal with that?)
3. The other day, I was laying about in a fit of boredom when a scene from an old Lifetime movie that I saw as a teenager popped back in my head that I hadn’t thought about since I had first watched it 15 years ago. (Yes, I used to watch Lifetime: television for women, back in the day and I don’t know why. It sure wasn’t for the quality of their programming!)
The scene was as follows: a young pre-teen girl was just adopted or put into foster care. On her first night in her new home, she wets the bed and tried to disguise this fact by trying to wash her sheets in the middle of the night. This, of course, alerts her new upper middle class, yuppie family and their live in Mexican maid. The new upper middle class yuppie family consoles the young girl and tells her it’s alright, and then the father turns to the live in Mexican maid and tells her to put some fresh, clean sheets on the girls bed.
I know that scene was supposed to show that the family is all loving and caring, but I thought that poorly veiled illusion was shattered when the father barked at the Mexican maid. I mean, what an fucking asshole!
Besides if this were to happen in real life, the father would have yelled at the young girl, cussing her out for wetting the bed after he had “gone through great pains” to be so accommodating to a “worthless wretch” like her. (The phrases in quotation marks will be the exact quotes that the asshole upper middle class yuppie father would use in his triade.)
It’s funny the things that come to mind when you are totally bored…
jareddriskill
