Last night, when I returned from a 12 Step Meeting, some of my family was an hour into a program hosted by Matt Lauer about two accident victims that were mistaken for one another. One died and the other survived, while being attended to in the hospital by the other’s family. Very interesting story, and you just got the jist of it in ten seconds!
These “news” documentaries drive me crazy! They took two hours to tell you fifteen minutes of information. During that time they showed the same photos and footage over and over again. Part of me wishes I had taken the time to analyse how much time was allotted to, first, reviewing what they’ve already told you, then baiting you for the next segment, not to mention repeated attempts to sell you something and finally, at everlastingly long last, actually informing you of something. But, the other part of me, thinks even that would be a waste of my precious time. If you’re that interested in the outcome, listen long enough to get the names, Google it and be done!
I don’t care how much of a couch potato you are, there has got to be something better to do with your time than being spoon fed five minutes of “news,” over the course of two entire hours!
Let’s make a list together of better things to do, shall we? Maybe we have a few readers that just aren’t sufficiently imaginative to come up with alternative activites on their own. Lets restrict the list to things you could do with just a spare two hours that might some how be less inane than watching the tube hash, rehash, rerehash, rererehash, rererereadinfinitumhash, the same stuff we could easily, conveniently, consume in a fraction of the time.
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Get acquainted with the next door neighbor
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Visit your mother on the phone or in person
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Prepare a meal and sit down with the family at the dinner table
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Go for a long walk
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Take a kid fishing
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Deliver an empty refrigerator box to a four year old and crawl in it with her
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Cuddle up with a good book
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Switch the channel and finds some real entertainment
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Attend a 12 Step meeting and get sober (it appears staring indiscrimately at the tube is an addiction)
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Please add your ideas….
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