gettingittogether

Something is really wrong in TV land. Seriously wrong. Wheel of Fortune is on when Jeopardy is supposed to be on and now all jeopardy-watching mothers who have traversed time zones to be with their children are  yelling at their children’s TVs, maddened by regional programming discrepancies. It must be really hard. It must be hard to enter a new reality — a reality where TV weather interstitials show maps of new states, where the weatherpeople have weird accents, where everything is different and frustrating. “Why are the roads like this? What is a ‘feeder road?’ I don’t know how you get around; the streets are all messed up here.” And the food. What will the traveling mothers do when confronted with new regional cuisine? Some will balk, and some will decline even to visit a strange regional restaurant. Mothers visiting New Orleans from the northeast will shun cajun food. Mothers visiting the Cape from New Mexico will grimace at the crab dishes. Why, I wonder, Why can’t they just change? Why can’t they adapt? 

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