A story in the Internet

[towitori]

"My wife and I have been looking for something light hearted to watch on TV, and maybe about 6 months ago we started watching jeopardy. One of her old teachers from middle school was on it recently, so that was nice and all, but nothing stood out to us like what happened on the episode we watched today.

You see, most people consider the post-first-commercial interviews to be somewhat of a waste of time, but we don't like to skip them. We noticed that of all the stories that get told, Alex has a couple of canned reaction phrases based on what the story is about. If the story is about something the person did in their life, he'll say "good for you." If it's about something they witnessed, he'll joke about how he could have been there, etc.

So after watching for months, we started really noticing what stories would be "good for you" stories and which ones would be other comments. Some women would start talking about her trip to Asia and it was certainly going to be good for her. We started wondering out loud, would there ever be three "good for you" stories in one episode? Possible, but just not that probable.

Well today, it finally happened. We are a few episodes back, so July 11th's episode, the first two stories were "good for you"s. Then the returning champion Pam started her story. I looked at my wife with a huge grin. She smiled back. We were fixed upon the screen, waiting for her gabbing to come to a close. Then, Alex muttered those three sweet words we'd been waiting months to hear.

We looked at each other in disbelief and excitement. We didn't know to have five, or scream, or fistbump. My poor dog had to leave the room he was so scared with our yells of excitement.

I couldn't believe nobody else on the internet had written about this yet, but if anybody else out there has ever noticed the trend, there are others of us out here who also notice and feel the same way. Totally trivial, but it made my day."