It Could Be SO Much Worse

Often on Saturday nights, after the girls have showered, when we're all just sitting around, Chas likes to give us something to be thankful for, to ratchet up our family's sense of well-being and gratitude.  He turns the TV to a station that broadcasts people who are so much worse off than we are.  We watch in silence, sometimes wincing at the painful scenes playing out in someone else's world.  It isn't fun, it's rather grim, but we all feel so thankful not to be those poor, poor people.

If you'd like to feel blessed, too, just watch.

And this one, too, just because I can.

Comments

[Kathy_Likes_Pink]

Ai yi yi. Those re-runs will NEVER go away.

[Myron Cohan]

Some body needs a rap across the lips. Just trying to figger out who.

[MamaMo]

I hope someone has brought the plight of these poor people to the attention of the U.N. - surely something can be done.

[anti]

The second one is just wrong. Shockingly wrong.

[Rick's Cafe]

I thought EVERY married woman would do just about anything to get their husbands to take them dancing. Now I'm hearing that women are picky about the music and type of dance...that there are minimum standards? This shatters years of stereotyping - I'm traumatized! Does this mean I've been wasting my money on square dance lessons....?

[MommyTime]

You may be thankful not to be them, and not to define "One toke over the line" as a "modern spiritual." But honestly? I would be incredibly thankful to have that much dancing energy in my feet when I'm 148 years old. What a role model! :)

On the other hand, thank goodness those butterfly pinafore dresses are out of fashion. I am wearing one almost exactly like it in my first grade class picture, but I had NO IDEA grown women were subjected to that fashion as well.

[faux ho ho]

it's a tragedy, when the feeling's gone and you can't go on, it's a tragedy.

[gubby]

The only worse off than those people would have to be on Hee-Haw or maybe the poor bastard who operates MoTays laugh track.