Pete and Kelli’s social distance day 15
29th March 2020
When our day is done and we chill, it is the only time we watch tv. Kelli recently cancelled her cable subscription because there is nothing good to watch. Apart from having something flickering in the bedroom helping her to get to sleep, it was a waste of money. So that went, the only good use for the cable now is to hang out the washing.
As we flick though the internet TV channels we came across a programme called Good Bones. It stars a mother and daughter who buy up old properties in Indianapolis and renovate them. They are the most annoying women I’ve ever experienced. The mother has the worst cackling laugh that could turn me violent. Her daughter a voice that could turn milk, Kelli calls it vocal fry where the end of every sentence defends into a sound of eggs in a pan.
I suffer through this every evening, mainly for any ideas that they show, and of course to criticise them as often as I can.
It is obviously made for tv at the most basic level, and I do feel I am in the same barrel scraping the bottom.
The format is always the same, find a cheap property (and I mean really cheap), look around the shit hole, plan what they want to do with it, send in a bunch of animals to tear the place apart, then ponce around pretending to rebuild it. What is not seen is the army of people doing the real work.
All through the two series the common theme is Shaker style doors for the kitchen, subway tiles for the splashback, and sliding barn doors, every bloody time.
It is so obvious that both Kelli and myself have predicted what they will do before they do it.
Now the objectives for these annoying women is to make a profit on the property, so important in America, but what it doesn’t care about is the story behind the property.
Often they enter the house that is still filled with someone’s personal possessions, even finding freezers filled with rotten food. They then dance around laughing and joking, even mockingly with objects they find.
Their self interest is all about the money, and that is the thing I hate, deep inside I am hoping that this Coronavirus had stopped their business for a while, not that they would stop, and re-access their values, they are “stars” but if there is karma, I hope it finds them.
Another Lifetime to go 