So here I am, sitting at home with Congress, who is telling me that she wants to see the finale for the Bachelor because the guy chose one woman, has we-are-getting-married sex with her for six weeks, then dumps her on national television and asks miss I-wasn’t-good-enough-for-you-six-weeks-ago if she wants to go get a cup of coffee. Of course she says yes, because she must have very few other options in her life than to go with a guy that already tossed her aside once otherwise she wouldn’t have been on the show to begin with, right?
What a beautiful love story.
Anyway, why does this surprise anyone? I mean, everywhere I looked I found people reacting as if this was the equivalent to finding a new use for bacon. Honestly people, get a grip on reality. People change their minds all the time. In fact, as DBA’s we constantly change our minds. We are always making decisions that head us down one path only to reverse course and go in the other direction. For example, how many people have ever had to roll back a service pack or hotfix? Or a stored procedure change? Or designed a database one way only to realize that there was a better, simpler design, one free of triggers and NULLs?
And how about those people who take jobs only to change their mind later? I could find examples of this all night long. Yet I see people reacting as if this change of heart is something they have never experienced before so I am assuming that ABC stacked the audience with a bunch of people that have had little to no contact with other humans or have never ever had to change their minds on something. Maybe the audience was filled with people who have decisions made for them all day long and have never had to think for themselves. Yeah, perhaps the audience was filled with people that are part of some real-life Dharma initiative, which makes sense since that is also tied to ABC and a little cross-promotion is never a bad thing.
What I think scares me most about all this is that those same people are allowed to vote and drive cars.
