Coffee Table Declarations
Tuesday, May 25, 2004
I have become obsessed with Colonial House. This is the kind of reality show that should be prevalent, something educational. What's so amazing about it is watching what people went through and how they persevered and survived. It's pretty impressive when you think about it.
As far as living in Colonial House, it may be a lot of hard work, no bathrooms or showers, and no decent food, but the big problem for me would be the bugs. I don't even mind the flying ones so much, but all the crawly ones are the real problem. I could not fall asleep at night wondering if bugs were going to crawl on me. One of the greatest modern inventions is not television, microwave ovens, or the world wide web, it's window screens.
One thing I've always thought would be fun would be to go back in time to the 1600's and bring someone back to the present time. I used to think how fun it would be to show them all the stuff we have and all the things we can do easily.
But now I wonder if it wouldn't be sort of mean. Either the poor person would be scared to death, or they would get so used to living with all of these modern conveniences and then they'd have to go back to their own time. Maybe they'd bring something back with them, smuggled in their pocket. Something small but technological, like a cell phone or a palm pilot. That could seriously mess up the space-time continuum and I wouldn't want to be responsible for that. Well forget that idea.
As far as living in Colonial House, it may be a lot of hard work, no bathrooms or showers, and no decent food, but the big problem for me would be the bugs. I don't even mind the flying ones so much, but all the crawly ones are the real problem. I could not fall asleep at night wondering if bugs were going to crawl on me. One of the greatest modern inventions is not television, microwave ovens, or the world wide web, it's window screens.
One thing I've always thought would be fun would be to go back in time to the 1600's and bring someone back to the present time. I used to think how fun it would be to show them all the stuff we have and all the things we can do easily.
But now I wonder if it wouldn't be sort of mean. Either the poor person would be scared to death, or they would get so used to living with all of these modern conveniences and then they'd have to go back to their own time. Maybe they'd bring something back with them, smuggled in their pocket. Something small but technological, like a cell phone or a palm pilot. That could seriously mess up the space-time continuum and I wouldn't want to be responsible for that. Well forget that idea.
