The Nominees Are. . .

TW3: Anybody out there remember that acronym? NBC bravely put a show on the air about 40 years ago that lasted a month or so. That Was The Week That Was was the unwieldy title, so critics shortened it to TW3. It was political, topical, biting, satirical, smart, funny and risky. All the things that some TV shows wish they were now but are not. I only mention this because this has been the week that was in our house. Nothing biting, satirical, political, funny or smart I am sad to say. But decidedly newsworthy in my opinion. The question in my mind is which of the following occurrences would take the prize and be the lead segment on TW3 if it had to go on the air tonight at 9, 8 Central?
1) My mother in law dies in a Chicago hospital after the family gathers on short notice to decide whether to prolong her life on a ventilator. Led by my husband Carl and his sister Barbara, the others vote to honor the mother's stated wishes and let her go in peace. He returned home sunday noon to resume his life as a grown up without his mom to guide him any longer. She was 78; he is 58. So it will be OK, I think.
2) Carl had studiously, meticulously, carefully, punctually and methodically applied for special ed teaching positions in Washington state. They had phoned the house and conducted an interview a couple of weeks ago, then they contacted his principal here. But the call to bring him up there for the in-person interview did not come. In Friday's email was a thanks but no thanks form letter saying they went with someone else.
3) My employer summoned me to the main HR office where I was presented a take it or leave it resignation letter wherein I surrender all future rights to bring any actions against them for any and all illegal, improper, deceitful or otherwise underhanded stunts they have pulled on me and other employees over the last three years. In exchange for this, they promise to let me apply for unemployment without challenge, and give me three days pay. And I have to promise never ever to tell anybody how they extorted this from me.
4) A female horse is entered into the Kentucky Derby where she comes in second against nineteen stallions, then collapses with her leg bones sticking through her flesh. The veterinarians kill her where she lay in the backstretch just beyond turn two. But NBC TV and the corporate sponsor Yum Yum foods who bring us Kentucky Fried Chicken among other delectable and nutritious fare run and re-run and re-re-run the yawner of a race where the favorite won and his rich owners and trainers jump up and down in jubilation as they mentally count their seven figure winnings.
Now I admit that number four is not a personal trial for us as we do not own any expensive race horses; nor have we ever bet more than about ten dollars on horse racing. But as an event that produced an emotional response, it is a major contender.
If the votes are for number three, I shall be posting more of the details of the travesty in a soon to be released blog entry. And then I will sit back to see if the liar and crook who runs HR is reading it and hauls me into court for "disclosing" the secret terms he concocted to bash me with. His name is Donald D Baumhart, JD and he runs Human Resources for El Rio Health Center Inc where the main order of business is to provide a place for pregnant illegal aliens to drop their fetuses and collect US benefits in perpetuity for the little monkeys. It's probably better I am no longer on the payroll. Sooner or later I would have called the border patrol on them and brought untold bad publicity and god knows what unspeakable anarchistic violence to our quiet pueblo.
Thank you for your votes and comments and attention.