Week 7

Since I kind of already did the the topic for week seven, I will do week five instead. A certain piece of entertainment that has shaped me as well as my family was hard to think about at first. Everyday we deal with some type of entertainment like music, art, movies, TV shows and books, but to pick one that has truly made an impact on my life was difficult to come up with. After pondering and some deep soul searching, I came up with one instance where some type of entertainment has directly influenced my life as well as my family's. A show made by the hilarious Brian Regan, "Epitome of Hyperbole" seems to represent a piece of my relationship with my family, especially my mom. I realize I have used Brian before in one of my other blog posts and I apologize, but this just proves how much this guy has shaped my family and I. In the show, Brian gives an instance where he went golfing with one of his buddies named Gary. After he returns home, Brian's wife asks him how Gary is doing. Brian tells his wife that he doesn't know. She doesn't understand how her husband can sit in a golf cart for four hours and not know how Gary, one of his best buds who just got divorced, is doing. After explaining that the conversation never came up, Brain did however seem to notice that Gary had some new golf clubs. This little segment in the show just goes to show you the difference between men and women. Women tend to ask as many questions as possible that seem to overflow the minds of men. I see this in my life all the time. I used to come home from hanging out with friends and my mom would ask how the night went. "Oh, it was good" is all I would respond. She would then proceed to try and get me to expound on every little detail that happened over the course of the night. For almost all of these questions, I would find that I honestly had no answer and she would be astonished that I didn't know simple details about my friends' lives. Guess it's just a guy thing. Now that my family has watched this show, whenever I get bombarded with questions from my mom I simply respond, "Mom... I really don't know how my roommate is doing, but I know he's got a new driver for golf!" This creates a laugh for us and my mom comes to realize that some conversations just don't come up between guys.