While confined to my home for a month while undergoing medical procedures, I found myself planted on my couch 24 hours a day due to vertigo and heart palpitations. The spouse worked 7 days a week and rarely returned home before 10:30 or 11 p.m. daily. Therefore the limits left me with one thing to do, watch television. That was an education I could have lived without.
Did you know that at least 70% of the channels are selling you something? Whether it’s a new bra, how to lose weight, a new cooking tool, learn a new language, magic jack, dog training devices and so much more. I thought these infomercials were only on at night so you could only imagine my confusion when they were on ALL DAY and NIGHT. Let’s be a millionaire at NO risk? Really? Don’t waste hours peeling that one boiled egg…. Use EGGIE? When has it EVER taken an hour to peel ONE boiled egg? I don’t know about you, but it has Never, in my lifetime, how about you? The Snuggie, the battery operated pot stirrer?
In confusion as to who in their right minds would purchase such items, I began talking with my neighbors and was shocked to see that many of them actually have many of these items in their possession. I laughed in shock. So I asked them if they use the items and amazingly they all said they used it the first week they got them and then put it aside and could not find it now.
So, I thought to myself that these people must have money to burn so I got a little closer to them to see how their financial situations really were. Amazingly, they were barely making it. Earning an average of $1200 to $1600 a month and trying to support their families on that. But meanwhile they are throwing away $20 or $50 or $100 a month on buying infomercial goodies? They are the same people that come borrow $20 for gas or beg for some meat to feed their kids.
What has happened to America? Are they so dumb that they cannot do simple math? Or do they get so wrapped up in the hype that they just don’t care? Just like when the little boy next door was crying because his older sister got a Snuggie and he didn’t. I told him to go get his robe and bring it to me. He ran inside is house and came out with his robe. I took the robe and turned it around and put his arms in first and told him that he too now has a Snuggie of his own. The tears stopped and he pranced around and was just as happy as he could be once again and it was his favorite cartoon character too.
I now stopped watching television all together as it just seems to make me feel more stupid than I did before I had turned it on.
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