Lessons to be Learned

My co-workers watch the news every day while eating lunch in our planning office. By the time I get there, the news is finished and Montel Williams is usually shouting about something. I almost always turn off the television and enjoy my nutritious meal in silence. However, the other day I left it on and paid the price in lost brain cells.

Montel's guest was talking about her traumatic experiences with a video voyeur. Whatever. One woman's creep is another woman's dreamboat. Seems this particular Peeping Tom set up a camera to film Montel's teary-eyed guest getting out of the shower (in a well-lit bathroom with open-for-the-world-to-see shutters) every day for six years. Please. I've had healthier relationships that didn't last as long. Victim cried through two commercial breaks and compared herself to a rape victim. Three times.

I know. B*tch has probably never been raped. Perp does a whole lot more than just watch your boobies.

The other day, a Pasco County woman choked on a piece of steak. Her boyfriend called 911 and was horribly mistreated. Several dispatchers, who should be fired if they hadn't resigned, either wouldn't or couldn't explain the Heimlich maneuver until finally someone walked the distraught and hysterical man through the process. Boyfriend tried and failed and the woman died.

Lesson: If you are naked and yawning and stretching in front of an open window, don't be surprised if someone notices. And takes pictures.

Lesson: If you are heavy, it's difficult to work the Heimlich maneuver on you. So enjoy those dead animals *cautiously*.

In both cases, others acted in horrendous and/or criminal manners. In both cases, the victims played a part in their own demise.

Just thought someone should point that out.