I love watching movies and TV. Anyone who knows me in the least, knows that. I'm very passionate about it, too.  Once I get started talking about a certain show or actor, I am kinda like a bulldog - you have to let go first. I know I am a sad,  pathetic woman, but it's true.

For all the years I had been married and had friends, I have discovered something rather interesting about men and women in general. Men generally watch television for educational purposes and women generally watch television for entertainment purposes. You will find men watching news, sports, outdoor channels, history channels, anything on the learning channel,  and some DIY shows. Women, on the other hand, will watch the dramatic shows in the evening after the kids are in bed, the sitcoms, and you might even find her staying up all evening on Saturday or Sunday catching up on a month's worth of shows that have been DVR'd if she has had to work.

I specifically DO NOT watch television for educational purposes UNLESS it is something like HGTV, some cooking show or a travel show on a place I would like to visit. So there you have it. 

I'm a mess, though. because I have a HUGE pet peeve regarding this subject. If someone attempts to throw in some kind of educational tidbit of information while I am attempting to be entertained, I get extremely aggravated. Allow me to give an example. Let's say I am watching a sitcom with my Sweetie and a guest actor is part of the television scene. I am enjoying the show and all of the sudden Sweetie goes online and is looking something up. Then he exclaims, "That person is the son of the woman who played on the show ___ forty years ago. And his father was ____ and he was also an actor who ___." Well, Sweetie, you just  did the "unforgiveable." You just added education to my show. Ugh!

I mean, seriously....what if a man was watching a show on fishing and his wife came up and sat next to him and started commenting things like, "Wow, isn't he a hottie? He would make a great lead actor in ____ because those eyes could really see through the lies ____ keeps telling her boyfriend." OR "This is really boring, why can't they have some background music like they might have in 'Jaws' and maybe have the fish just jump out of the water into the boat. It would make the scene so much more exciting."

Now, I WILL say that I am blessed by my man because he doesn't fit the mold for every other man.  He actually enjoys both educational as well as entertainment television, and he rarely, if ever, subjects me to educational TV when we are together, but I guess it's runs in his veins.

OK, I feel better now that I have exposed my sick and perverted way of thinking.  I have been told I need to lighten up and NOT throw things and hit people who don't feel the same way I do (I don't think it's a problem since I am just making myself understood), but I can't help it.  Just like my dad can't help slapping his hand on the table and marching into another room when someone talks 'nonsense' while he is trying to watch the news. I mean who cares what the president of Timbuktu does with his money, if he isn't telling a joke and making people laugh?

From my demented corner of the room,

Petra