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Friday, March 20, 2009

When did I grow up?

I don't know when the reality of society settled up on me, but I can't read a book, watch TV or do much of anything else without too much thinking.

For example:
  1. I was reading a book this week in which the title character received as a gift a $14 million New York condo as a present. Instead of thinking how awesome that would be, I thought, "she doesn't realize how much in taxes that will cost."
  2. I find more pleasure in listening to NPR than to anything else on the radio.
  3. I was reading another book in which the heroine decided to quit her job and move to Paris. All I could think was, "what is she going to do without health insurance?"
I'm so not fun anymore.

2 comments:

~Mad said...

You're fun - you're just practical and realistic as well.
~Mad

Lulalu said...

That's the sort of stuff I always think about when I watch extreme home makeover. How do they afford the house after it's built? I can barely afford my itty bitty house. I can't imagine what a gigantic house would cost me.