but wait, there's more!

alright, it's been awhile since i've shared any secrets with you guys, so today i'm going to tattle on corey.  heh.  

corey has a problem.  it involves informercials.  and the fact that he believes every word they are telling him.  see, corey is cursed with insomnia.  anyone who has spent a night up knows that there is nothing good on tv during the early morning hours, and more often than not, most channels are showing infomercials.  and corey just drinks them in.  during those god-forsaken hours, it makes sense that one should have a knife that can cut through a shoe, a concrete block, and then a tomato.  remember epil-stop, the hair remover?  gave him chemical burn.  the ab-zapper?  did not zap away those unwanted pounds (surprise, surprise!).  the bow-flex that took three years of "easy payments"?  i think it was used once and now sits in our garage providing a home to many a spider.  metabolife, the pill that was supposed to melt away the pounds?  well, they were taken for a week, and then forgotten.  it got so bad, i had to forbid him from making any phone calls without consulting me first.  not that i can blame him.  they can be convincing, with their "old way" shown in black and white, with people in pain and struggling, and then the "new way," with everything so bright and shiny and good.  who doesn't want that little improvement in their lives? :) 

but we've come up with a compromise.  now when corey wants something he's seen in an infomercial, we head to the store and check out the as-seen-on-tv displays.  some good stuff can be found there.  mighty putty?  check.  miracle blades?  check.  the handy switch?  check.  next on his list: the shamwow! (i mean, it sells itself!) and the clapper plus.   i still have to reel him in sometimes, but at least now we don't have to pay shipping & handling! :)

corey admiring the glorious mighty putty