Random thoughts from a random mind
It’s hard to buy food and me may be a good thing. cook for one person. There is I sometimes think about hardly anything in the grocery expanding my TV viewing store designed to prepare a choices. I really only watch meal for one. live sports and the local news Things are packaged in in the mornings and really quantities that, if you only only watch the news to see MIKE BOLLINGER want to cook enough for one, what the weather is going to mike@johnstonnow.com always result in leftovers. The be. upside to this is there are While watching tennis, leftovers, so there is the savings of making or basketball, or football, or whatever, more than one meal. The downside to I sometimes see promotions for shows. this is there are leftovers, and many times When I see these promos, I begin to stuff gets thrown out because I get tired of wonder what I would even watch. eating it. There is a show that gets advertised Even some cans of stuff are too much a lot where someone moves into a for one person to eat at one time. I’ve house with a bunch of people from the often wondered why there aren’t things opposite sex, eventually picks the one packaged for one person, but food they want to marry and gives that person manufacturers don’t seem to think like I a rose (notice how I worked a rose into do. Come to think of it, not thinking like a column that will come out close to
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Valentine’s Day). I’m sure there’s lots of drama and fun stuff to watch as this selection process takes place, but I don’t think that one would be for me. I’ve also seen ads for one where a group of single people are put together on an island where they will hopefully find a relationship. What? Somehow I don’t think I’d get any amusement out of that, either. Furthermore, why are people having to resort to a TV show to find happiness with another person? Do they get paid to do this and is a relationship a bonus? Do they simply want a relationship badly enough to go on TV and have the whole country (or whatever portion of the country that would actually tune in to one of these shows) watch? Whatever happened to the old-fashioned way of
