It's possible I have mentioned before how I grew up in a Small Town. One thing growing up in a Small Town does for you is make you completely aware of your insignificance, particularly in the scope of the local, regional and National news, and growing up in a Small Town in Minnesota helps this issue, because your small town probably doesn't have a per capita income of a million and a half dollars like some New England "small towns" and probably doesn't have lots of pro football players come out of it, like small towns in Texas or have a really pretty beach like small towns in California. So, unless you live in International Falls, Minnesota, where you make the news once a year for "Being Really Cold Right Now," you get used to the idea that things that happen around you are really more gossip than news, and weather and war and other Big News might hit you, but they'll tell you about how it's going to hit "This area about-ish" and then reassure their Real Public that it's not heading for any "populated areas" and be a little sorry when the robot changes direction and takes out a suburban mall full of teenagers.
That apparently isn't how it works here. Here, they interrupt the end of Friends and the first half of an episode of How I Met Your Mother that I haven't even seen yet to give me a half an hour of a red and orange blotchy map of a part of the state that I'm not even currently in, and when I google it, it turns out to be the county seat of Warren county and have 12,749 people in it and be the Nursery Capital of the World and not even meaning babies, but meaning flowers. Where I come from that place is called Northfield, and they have rich college students and they don't even get to be on the news for a tornado that hasn't happened yet and isn't heading toward the cities. I mean, if it turns their pretty town square into rubble, sure...
Not that I want that to happen.
Unless, you know, they don't get back to my program soon.
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Over the summer, I missed an entire hour of one of my favorite shows because...it was raining really hard. Which, by the way, I could HEAR OUTSIDE MY WINDOW.
ReplyDeleteThis is not a joke. I almost murdered someone. But I was in my apartment by myself and to go outside in the pouring rain just to murder someone seemed like an awful lot of work.
What it reminded me of was the stupid Gulf War, which broke into Quantum Leap with coverage of aerial bombings, shown in that green and black night vision crap. I didn't give a shit about that, I wanted to know if Sam was going to be all right!
ReplyDeleteYes, I was and am a dork.