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17 years ago

Would your life make a good reality show?

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lydia1959
17 years ago
Might be good to cure people with insomnia.
glenda_al
17 years ago
Definitely NOT!
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stephanie_in_ga
17 years ago
No, there's not enough sex.

I know, you can't believe I said that. ;o)
golfergrrl
17 years ago
Mine would be good for putting people to sleep.
orie
17 years ago
Sure it would.. but first we would have to work out the details on what to exaggerate to really make it interesting!
vicki_lv_nv
17 years ago
Good one Stephanie! LOL

My life might not (see Stephanie's reply)...but our workplace? Sure would! Almost everyone that works in the office alone has drama in their lives!
Pieonear
17 years ago
This past week my life would have made the viewer's hair stand on end. I thought I would lose my mind! Hoping next week is a little calmer. Anyone in the market to adopt a granddaughter?
vannie
17 years ago
LOL at Stephanie

Mine would be too busy. The cameramen would have troulbe keeping up with me.
susan_on
17 years ago
My work place probably would. Some of it would have to be "bleeped" out though.
ronf_gw
17 years ago
Stephanie stole my line.

Ron
Kathsgrdn
17 years ago
Only at work, the people who work there and our patients. Some of the things I've seen and heard! We're always saying how we should write this stuff down someday. No names, of course.
trishaw
17 years ago
Home- nope. But workplace maybe- if you like gardening shows.

Trish
des_arc_ya_ya
17 years ago
No, not anymore! LOL (Thank goodness!)
caflowerluver
17 years ago
Maybe, if people were interested in what it is like to live with an Autistic child. I wouldn't do it though because I wouldn't want DS to be a public spectacle. When DH and I see some child actor trying to play someone with Autism in a TV show, we just roll our eyes. It is usually not a very accurate portrayal.
Clare
cherbo
17 years ago
My daughter and I were just discussing this one day last week. Camera man wouldn't have anything to do, not much goes on around here.
casey_nfld
17 years ago
A very boring one!
wildchild
17 years ago
I think I'll have to take the fifth on this one.;-)
jannie
17 years ago
Nope,it would be very boring, but punctuated with bits of hysteria. Yesterday I screamed when my DH broke a glass. Nobody would find me entertaining.
Linda Wayman
17 years ago
No, but it would make a good story for The Enquirer magazine.

Linda
okwriter
17 years ago
Hardly. I get up, commute to the other end of the house, work in my PJs, commute to the kitchen to fix dinner, and go to bed. Somehow I don't they could sell advertising for that...
marilyn_c
17 years ago
Not a whole show, but one little segment might be kind of interesting if you like eccentric people.
chisue
17 years ago
Everybody has at least one good book in 'em.

(But remember the Chinese curse: May you live in 'interesting' times.)
drewsmaga
17 years ago
Not a reality show, but a soap opera. What goes on with my 4 adult kids & 4 GK's & my 5 siblings & my DH's siblings is FAR more dramatic than any soap opera. And then there was hurricane Ike in Sept. . . .
czech_chick
17 years ago
Dull as dishwater around here since retiring! LOL
User
17 years ago
I'm not that exciting. Even as strange as things get sometimes, I'm still not surrounded by enough weirdness to make a reality show.
sjarz
17 years ago
Home life, nope, that's my sanctuary and actually very quiet.
My working life, well - this past week I spent two full days in court testifying in a murder trial - the murder happened on the front lawn of my apartment building and the murderer was my tenant. So, working life here is already a script in the making.
Suzan J
joyfulguy
17 years ago
Not quite sure of the definition of "reality", which I consider odd, to say the least ...

... but they'd have to dress up my boring life such a great deal that my family/friends wouldn't believe that it was about me!

(I wouldn't, either, I expect!).

ole joyful
OklaMoni
17 years ago
No, I don't think so. At least, not the beginning.... maybe the married years?

Moni

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