The Inner Bean

I don’t know when it started, the Wednesday night tradition of watching ABC television’s reality show “Wife Swap.” If I knew, I would go back in time and look away before the train wreck, or even better position myself as far from the TV as possible. How the show has manged to maintain itself these last few years is beyond me, but season after season foolish families agree to swap wives with another family for two weeks to experience another lifestyle (and hopefully TEACH the other family how wrong their style of life is).

I have managed to learn two things from the show:

1. If you’re going to swap lives with another woman from another family, you better believe that they are going to find a family who is completely opposite of yours in beliefs, practices, customs and values.

2. I hate reality TV more and more each time I watch it.

The unfortunate thing is that it really is like a train wreck. Gruesome, hideous and powerful enough to scar your mind, but if you pass it by while scanning channels you will stop.

Beware this evil mind trap. Not only is it one of the most awful reflections of a closed-minded society, they seem to gather some of the most evil women on the face of the planet. You will hate them.

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