TV Dinners

I ate some form of microwaveable dinner at work today and it made me sad. I keep a couple of these and some veggies in the freezer there for lunch etc. Generally they’re the single entree type thing like chicken on rice and I dump the whole thing over a bed of vegetables and voila – lunch that doesn’t take me an hour and a half. This one was some form of turkey dinner which had turkey, some stuffing, and some apple pie filling dessert stuff. It made me sad for anyone who would really consider that a dinner. Maybe it’s that I never experienced that as a kid. Maybe I think its worse than it is and no one really considers that a dinner. I know I have talked to people who thought TV dinners were something special, or fun and they had them on occasions (I think this is because it was one time they were allowed to watch TV during dinner as a kid). So not everyone thinks they’re horrible. This probably had something to do with Thanksgiving coming up and the contents of this dinner resembling those of a traditional Thanksgiving dinner. I feel bad for anyone who doesn’t have anyone to spend Thanksgiving with – it made me think that if I were ever completely alone for Thanksgiving I’d volunteer somewhere to help those less fortunate. I’m not even sure I’m that attatched to Thanksgiving – I think once I didn’t go home that weekend. But that’s different than having your Thanksgiving dinner be a 97 cent thing from Meijer. This random wandering of the mind has been brought to you by me.