November 14, 2010

Dateline



I have come to the conclusion that I shouldn't watch Dateline anymore. I rarely watch it, but when I do it makes me totally paranoid! After listening to Ann Curry meticulously go over the details of a murder suspect's day, I begin to think about how my own days are laid out. What unaccounted for time do I have in my day that someone could suggest I used to commit a horrendous act? I start to think of my life as a scene of a crime and wonder how each little detail around the house could be used to incriminate me. I type out texts to my hubby and then erase and rewrite them more politely because I think "how would this look to a jury if he somehow died and I became a murder suspect?" What searches of mine has Google saved that could be used to somehow prove my guilt? 

Last night I watched Dateline right before going to bed. As I got up to turn the TV off and join my husband upstairs in bed I could hear Ann Curry in my head...

"She walked around the house, checking to see if all the doors were locked. She thought she heard something so she went over to the front window and peeked out. After finding nothing, she went upstairs. When she got to the top of the stairs she tried to open the door to her bedroom but it was locked. Why would her door be locked? *Dramatic Sound Effect* She tried to force the door open with no luck. She began to knock loudly hoping to get an answer from her husband. Finally she heard him get up from the bed and open the door. Why had he locked the door? To come: every woman's worst nightmare... "

3 comments:

Sunny said...

I don't watch the news and that is one of the reasons why. Not having a man in the house to protect us was terrifying sometimes. I mean how am "I" supposed to protect the kids and myself from wicked intruders? 'sigh' Yeah, I don't watch programs like that anymore.

Buster's Pearl . . . Always said...

Girl, that's why I don't let myself watch those kind of shows anymore. Sometimes I wish they wouldn't even make them, because I wonder if they're mostly watched by people that will use it to learn how to be better at calculating their moves..... Hope you got some sleep that night :)

MellyB said...

I swear, our brains are related. Except yours moves faster and wrote about this a year ago. Be patient with my slow brain and we could be friends for life!