January 2006

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It's a little odd waking up with the television on, several hours after the program you'd gone to sleep watching has ended. This is especially true if "several hours" winds up being the middle of the night and the station is an independent one not airing a network news show.

You come back to the world of the awake and realize someone is trying to sell you something. You see this man talking earnestly about some remedy he's convinced the whole population of the world should be taking, because it's done such good things for him.

It's either cured his baldness, his depression, his bad memory, or his inability to get a job on a television show, and he wants you to have the same wonderful luck he's had. Of course, there is another person (a woman, I think) asking him questions about his life Before the Remedy, to which he responds with all the passion he can muster. It was bad, oh so very bad.

Questioner nods sympathetically, then asks about his life After the Remedy.

It's perfect! Within swallowing time of the first dose, his troubles were diminishing. His life was his again! His loved ones loved him again! His neighbors stopped him in the driveway to ask for his secret! And by dose two, he was whole! He continues to take the remedy, lest he backslide into the oh so very bad time.

You're beginning, by this point, to realize it's an infomercial and that there will be a break to allow you to order your own supply of the remedy. Because you're a little curious about the price of perfection and wholeness, you stay tuned.

You learn that a month's supply of the remedy will only cost twice your mortgage payment. But they'll give you a pill box of molded plastic, which would ordinarily cost another arm, just for trying the remedy.

Having heard the answer you sought, and long after realizing that you didn't want or need the remedy, you turn off the television, secure in the knowledge that should you develop a deep need for the remedy, the show will air again tomorrow. Same time, same channel.