You know what I’ve noticed? Occasionally, fictional stories
make me mildly irrational.
For instance, if a coworker came to me and said, “Did you
hear? Nancy,
from the diner, got a call in the middle of the night. Her teenage daughter and
her boyfriend got arrested for holding up a convenience store. Can you believe
it? And it’s not the first time this guy has shown himself to be trouble. Super
mysterious. His parents are a very nice couple, but not even they seem to know
what’s going on with him. Keeps a lot of secrets. Anyway, Nancy and her husband
have told their daughter that under no circumstances is she to see him again,
but apparently her daughter is saying that they can’t stop her. It’s a real
mess. And honestly, I don’t know if they have the money to keep making bail.”
I’m pretty sure I would be solidly on poor Nancy’s side. Daughter being led down a
felonious path by a boyfriend into who knows what? Can’t really blame a parent
for being concerned. In fact, I think most would blame a parent if her or she
wasn’t worried in this situation. And the natural response certainly seems to
be “get daughter away from hoodlum.”
Of course, I put in Season Three of Roswell
and all I think is: For goodness sake, will
the Parkers just chill out? So her grades dropped and she’s been incarcerated.
Whatever. They need to find out about the other aliens! No, you don’t know
that, but can’t you just assume it’s important and stop getting in the way?
Where were you a couple seasons ago when your daughter got kidnapped by that
shapeshifting alien? She didn’t come back for like a day and a half. Didn’t
notice you getting all worried then. And don’t even get me started on Mr. and
Mrs. Evans. Expecting their children to talk to them about any of the weird and
potentially dangerous stunts they pull. They should all just follow Michael’s
lead. Emancipations all around!
Then I turn the DVD off, the teenage drama stupor slowly
fades, and I’m left wondering what the hell I was thinking.
Just one of the many examples of my battle with SIUR
(Story-Induced-Unreasonable-Reactiveness). Let’s hear one of yours.
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