My husband can’t believe that I didn’t want to find out the sex of our baby. He says I’m terrible with surprises. I’m the person who reads every SPOILER ALERT I can find, and who spoils surprises for everyone else (not always on purpose).
In the past few years of doing the Entertainment Schmig reports on Y98, I’ve ruined some surprises for some people. Whether it’s the winner of Survivor, or the latest castoff from Dancing With The Stars, I’ve learned over time to warn people - “If you haven’t watched last night’s show…turn your radio down now!!!” Believe me, if you’ve been cursed out by enough people, you learn your lesson.
That, and your karmic payback is waiting for you.
With just a few weeks to go before the baby’s born, I’ve been extremely sleep deprived. I wake up countless hours during the night to waddle to the bathroom, only to stare at the ceiling trying to fall back to sleep. Add to that a week packed with childbirth classes, book club and hyper-nesting-must-dust-everything-at-9-O’Clock syndrome, and I was beat by Thursday night. I tape a million shows on Thursday nights - The Office, 30 Rock and Grey’s - so I decided I could watch one short show and I was going to bed early. The Office it was, and it was great (surprises and all). As I got ready for bed, Ryan switched back to live TV and cursed me that Grey’s Anatomy was two hours and was still taping. I glanced over to see Meredith working on some bandaged, bloody guy. Too much for me to stomach, so I finished brushing my teeth and crawled in between the covers to try and get some sleep.
When I got to work this morning, one of the first things Courtney asked me about was Grey’s Anatomy. I was surprised, because I am the only one on the morning show who watches the show. Sure, I have to listen to Court, Guy and Kev talk about “24″ every week, but they all laughed whenever I would gush about Mer and Der, or George and Izzie’s ridiculous romantic story line from a few years back. I quickly told Courtney that I hadn’t watched Grey’s yet, and she was ticked. She never watches it, but she caught the end and it was SHOCKING!!! Yeah, I said, the whole Izzie thing was probably crazy last night, but I don’t want to know. But no - there was something even more shocking than Izzie. “I still don’t want to know anything,” I told her.
She respected my wishes, and since no one else at work ever talks Grey’s, I went about my day….
Later on, I went onto Facebook to reply to some messages, and the first thing I saw was:
OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!! GREY’S ANATOMY LAST NIGHT MADE MY HEAD EXPLODE IT WAS SO CRAZY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The over-the-top post made me excited and I looked forwarded to watching the show back this weekend. That is, until someone had to reply to that post and basically give away the entire ending and cliffhanger. Yeah, it was way bigger than Izzie. And it didn’t take much for me to piece together what had happened.
I wanted to scream - better yet, I wanted to strangle the girl (whom I didn’t even know) for posting the obvious! Suddenly, the rage of all of the people I’ve spoiled shows for began rushing through my veins. I was mad at this girl - and mad at myself for making the same mistake before in the past. That is the absolute worst. Wanting to rage against someone only to stop and realize that you’ve done the exact same thing before. Yes, I should forgive her, much like I wanted other people to do for me, but damn it…it’s not fair! I sat through all of the crappy episodes of Grey’s Anatomy. The stupid plot lines, the cheesy McDream/Steamy nicknames, only for the show to get great again and watch possibly the most shocking season ending blow up in my face. What gives?
I’ll tell you what gives…the old saying…that Payback is a *****.
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