Yes, I watch “The Real World.”

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So, when you feel completely overwhelmed and so tired that you think that a nap at 7:00 p.m. is a good idea, you might be getting sick.

That partly explains my previous post about motherhood making me tired.  As it turns out, being sick also makes me tired and thus, for the past two days, I’ve been slogging through my life with a head full of wet cement. 

No Retreat, No Surrender the movie But it’s only a cold.  And I’ll feel better soon.

I do have to say that watching MTV’s “Real World” cheered me considerably tonight.  Brooke, one of the young women on the show, completely lost her mind and went berserk with crazed grief and anger because her roommate, a cute boy whose name escapes me, insulted her behind her back. 

She finally confronts him (in a bar, where all confrontations ought to take place for maximum drama, I guess) and he repeats the insult to her face.

She storms home, locks herself in the bathroom and weeps.  Her sobs turn into screams and soon, she’s marching through the house, scrawling a note on three separate pieces of paper (“You are the nastiest human being ever.  I will never trust you again.  Rot in hell.  Love, Brooke.”)  Then she strips his bed of sheets, strategically places the notes on the bed, knocks over a lamp and collapses in her closet, arms flung over her head, face blotchy with tears, her head on a stray plastic hanger. 

She’s gasping and crying when her friend, Colie, comes in and asks, “Are you okay?”

Brooke says, “No!”

Then Colie asks what happened and Brooke says that she had a conversation with the boy roommate.  She sits up, runs her hands through her hair and blurts out, “He said I have a double chin!” 

Blink.  Blink.  Blink.  (That’s me.)  Cry.  Cry.  Cry.  (That’s her.)  

“I will never trust him again!  Why does this always happen to me?”  And she sobs into her hands.

And I burst into laughter. 

Perhaps this means I’m cruel, but it also means I’m old and I know that a double chin is nothing to cry about.  In fact, in the grand scheme of things, a double chin is the equivalent of stepping on a pebble with your bare feet–you might flinch but you don’t limp or break your stride.  I only wish that having someone notice my double chin were the worst thing to ever happen to me.

What hilarity.

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  4. Isn’t it amazing what seems so important when we are young, compared. The world just ended for her. In 10 years she look back and watch herself and be mortified at the way she reacted.

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  6. In response to Marianne’s comment:

    I highly doubt it. In 10 years she will be looking at surgery for the umpteenth time because she is so full of herself and can’t live with a double chin or saggy breast or a extra inch on her rear. Boy, if my only concerns at (what is she 20, maybe?) 20 was a double chin then life would have been easier.

    There is a reason I don’t watch MTV. Way too much drama (and trash) for this woman! I have enough things to take care of let alone watching people who are just a few years younger (and some of them older, the last time I watched) bicker and curse and complain about who did who and who said what. If that is the real world, then I live in a completely different world. Thankfully.

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  8. His name is Davis! The hot, gay guy. I watch that show too, and found it hilarious that she was upset that when she looks down ONLY, that’s when her double chin appears. Whatever!!! Mine is on 24/7, so I’m with you, “blink, blink, blink”–LAUGH!

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  12. Hahaha! Mel, you are too much! I haven’t watched MTV for about, um, 20 years, but I’ll have to watch it now just so my life now will look so — real! A double chin… Holy Moses… What if he had called her FAT?

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