One man’s voice

Being a tiger and the dreaded couch

Posted on March 30th, 2007 in Personal Messages

I am totally and thoroughly enthralled by a new Comcast commercial that is out. It shows a man named Roger on the phone talking with a tattoo shop. He states that he is talking on his new Comcast Digital Voice line. It appears as though he is trying to change something when a voice on the other end of the phone replies…

“I’m sorry Roger, you tiger now.”

Roger replies with “You’re sorry?” as the camera pans backward and shows Roger, with black tattooed Cincinnati Bengal tiger stripes all over his body, standing in the middle of Cincinnati Bengal room. It was almost as if Roger regretted becoming a tattooed tiger and wanted to undo what he had done.

Unlike software, life has no undo
This actually got me thinking about something. How many times in your life have you done something without thinking about the consequences at all? I mean, it could be a small thing or a big thing, but at some point the thought of what happens next never enters the mindscape. Have you ever done that? I have. Usually with a bad outcome. Which may have been predicted if I had thought that far in advance.

It brings up that notion in you where you begin to think to yourself “I wish I could go back in time and do it differently”. But the sad reality is there is no undo button. There is no rewind. And all too often the decisions we make without thinking result in permanent effects that could very well haunt you for the rest of your natural life.

So why do we do that? It just seems funny to me when people do something and when all hell breaks lose as a result of their action, the only thing they can muster up as a response is “I never thought this would happen”. Perhaps that should be shortened to “I never thought.” Why do we not think? I believe there are a few reasons for not thinking, but the most common reasons, as I see them, are A) we really care more about what is about to happen now that what may happen later; B) we truly do not have the wisdom to look beyond now; c) we think that there is a possibility that what we know will certainly happen later may, by some slim chance, not happen. Whatever the reasoning for stupidity and lack of discernment, I can say, without a doubt, there is never a rationale or justification that covers the consequence. Ever.

Now that seems like something to ponder…

I am so mad at my couch
My couch is nasty. It is ugly, dirty, outdated, mismatched with the living room and falling apart. And it is comfortable enough to make a person want to fall asleep on it.

My wife love to stay up late and watch TV. It is her time, when there are no kids, no husband, no noise and no distractions to move her out of her peaceful place. Unfortunately, when she stays up late watching TV, she invariable falls asleep on the couch. Now if there is no husband or child next to her, messing with her, she will not wake up. Which usually means I wake up to find myself alone in bed. I usually end up giving her a kiss on her still sleeping head while she dreams peacefully on the couch as I leave for work in the morning. Man, I hate my couce.

Lat night we were putting the couch cover back on the couch. Yes, we cover it because it is so nasty that it needs a cover. And as we were doing that I began to see how badly we need a new couch. My wife has been telling me this for years, but for years I have been sleeping alone because of that stupid thing and have refused to get a new one. But I might just break down soon and get a new couch. And when I do, you’d better believe that it will be a good looking, well fitting part of the living room that is so darn uncomfortable that no one would ever consider using it for more than minute.

Maybe then I can actually have a good night’s sleep with my wife…