The Day the Small Town Came to a Stand Still
Small town Cynthiana came to a stand still on Monday, February 14, 2005. From 10 a.m. until 11 a.m., everyone quit what they were doing, work ceased, school work was postponed, and everyone watched "The Ellen Show."
A teacher and sister of a friend of one of the guests on the Ellen Show, ceased her classroom teachings while everyone focused their attentions to the classroom tv; various classes throughout the high school did the same thing. A patient in a local doctor's office refused to be seen until the segment of the show had concluded. A health sciences student and teacher were giving a patient a bath at the local hospital and after asking the patient's permission, they all watched the entire show together. It appears that was the longest bath on record at that hospital. Macho men stayed indoors to catch the show, even taping it for their wives.
At 11 a.m., students went back to their school work, adults went back to their work stations, doctors were able to see their patients again, and life went back to normal--whatever normal is for small town Cynthiana.
A teacher and sister of a friend of one of the guests on the Ellen Show, ceased her classroom teachings while everyone focused their attentions to the classroom tv; various classes throughout the high school did the same thing. A patient in a local doctor's office refused to be seen until the segment of the show had concluded. A health sciences student and teacher were giving a patient a bath at the local hospital and after asking the patient's permission, they all watched the entire show together. It appears that was the longest bath on record at that hospital. Macho men stayed indoors to catch the show, even taping it for their wives.
At 11 a.m., students went back to their school work, adults went back to their work stations, doctors were able to see their patients again, and life went back to normal--whatever normal is for small town Cynthiana.
posted by Gramma-Whit @ Tuesday, February 15, 2005
2 Comments:
At 2:02 PM,
Alecia Whitaker said…
And a lot of those macho men admitted to tears in their eyes... of course that's the true reason they stayed home to watch alone. It was probably good for them to get in touch with their feminine sides.
At 10:44 PM,
Bobbie Jo said…
You forgot to mention people skipped class, and their teachers said it was okay as long as they taped the show and brought it in for the class to watch. I guess I'm not technically in Cynthiana anymore, but I'm close enough.
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