I just finished watching a local news program. I don't usually make a habit of it, but I thought what the hell.
Okay, so I couldn't find the remote, and I was too lazy to get up.
I usually avoid the local news because it's generally inane and inconsequential bullshit. I get most of my news from national and international sources. It tends to be the more important, "big-picture" news.
Like you'll hear a pastor for some christian religion nearly got fired for something or other. Who cares? I mean, besides the church's attendees, of course. But they would already know about this legal battle anyway.
Or some poor cab driver who got shot by his fare's psycho ex-boyfriend. Tragic, but not anything I really want to hear about.
These were actual stories tonight.
Funny thing is it was actually the weather report that disturbed me the most.
Apparently today in Phoenix, AZ we hit a record high for March 21st.
97 degrees today. Okay. That's pretty frigging warm, but nothing new. right? WRONG!Where the hell did spring go?!? WHERE, I SAY?!?!
Sorry, sorry. I'm of the mind that humans weren't designed to live in such a climate, and I marvel at the fact that I have not yet died from heat exhaustion... or moved, for that matter. But even this I could get over. Eventually. We're used to this kinda crappy weather here. But here's where the chipper weather girl had to rub the lemon juice into the wound.
"And you'll notice that today's new record high was a full twenty degrees higher than the normal average for March 21st."
You smarmy little.... Twenty degrees? She says this with a smile on her charming little unobtrusive-tone-spewing face. It's as if she doesn't actually live here. Like she reports this news while trying desperately to not burst out laughing at us because she's reporting from some tropical locale. Hawaii maybe. That would explain the dark tan so early in the season. Hmmm....
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