What Happened? ©

This has the potential of going in many different directions, so I apologize in advance.

During my morning commute, because my car stereo is pretty standard, (radio only) I’m left with very few choices for my listening pleasure. One of the stations I tune to sometimes, does their version of a TV court show. The wife calls into the station, shares her gripe about her husband/boyfriend with the personalities and all the thousands of listeners. The personality in turn, calls the husband blindly and confronts him with the issue. Of course, the initial reaction from the husband, and in my opinion rightfully so, is an anger-laced shock that their wives have aired their business out for all to know. The ‘cases’ have ranged from common stuff; not wanting to have fun anymore, leaving the bathroom light on, to what I consider as subjects that should totally remain in the home or a real Divorce Court. Such was the case on today’s show.

A woman called into the radio station and gave details of her recent discovery of a secret bank account belonging to her husband. A statement came to their home containing only his name that she opened and proceeded with a full-fledged investigation. Upon her snooping, she learned purchases were made at a trendy lingerie store (the secret is out!) I’m sure you can tell where this went. The husband explained his reasons for opening the account, that the lingerie was bought as a favor to a colleague, (and of course she demanded more answers,) and the radio hosts opened the phone lines for the listeners to give their opinion (I changed the station at this point)

Now, call me old-fashion, but what happened to dignity? Have we lost so much of ourselves that any attention is acceptable? As mentioned, I didn’t hear what the callers had to say, but I heard the husband’s frustration loud and clear. Behind his forced politeness was bitterness, and the wife’s venom was apparent from the beginning, and it continued.

I don’t know, call me crazy, but people have truly lost it. Whatever ‘it’ was that held families together and problems were discussed with sincerity without a Prime Time audience is gone. Whatever that thing was that triggered their love for each other to override the urge to act out on a national level for the sake of ratings; on the radio or TV.

And they wonder why there’s no sense of family (or individual) values…