Today I left work and drove home feeling kind of lethargic. I hadn't run or biked in a couple days, and was feeling like I really needed to do something. As I was driving home, I saw some dark clouds, and heard about some storms rolling through the area. So when I got home, I immediately turned on Channel 4, to see if the weather happened to be on. Luckily for me, I happened to tune in just as Mike LaPoint was giving an update. He then proceeded to show several graphics which could have helped me figure out if I could get a bike ride in dry... but instead he stood in front of them making them absolutely useless to me! How am I supposed to figure out anything if you're standing in front of the graphics you dolt?!
The TV weatherman is perhaps the only job in televised media where we should never see your ugly mug. I don't care about you. I only care about the radar on the screen, and where the storms happen to be. If you're standing in front of the screen, I can't see jack squat! That's why I think all weathermen should be embarrassingly ugly. They should be so ugly, that they fear being seen on television, lest they break the television camera.
I ended up turning on my computer and going to Intellicast to look at the radar instead. I did end up going for my bike ride, and as it turns out I timed it perfectly, because it didn't start to pour until I was home and had gotten out of the shower... no thanks to Mike LaPoint.
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