I'm going to tell you about one of the most annoying things you can do.

If you want to do this thing I'm talking about, and it's pretty fun, it's very annoying,

but if you want to do it, you'll need a couple of components.

First, a person that you live with, partner, spouse, roommate, family member.

Next, there needs to be a television show that they've

been watching for a while, that they're currently watching in that moment, and it needs to be a show

that you haven't watched before. Okay, so now the trap is set, and here's what you do. You waltz

into the room, you sit down on the couch next to your poor sucker,

and you start asking little questions about what's going on in the show. Who's that guy? Why is that

lady so mad? Oh no, they're fighting. Why is that guy so scared of the other guy? Where are they

anyway? Is she the mom? Which one's the mom? Then you wait to see how many questions you can get to before they stop explaining the answers to your questions and simply throw you out of the room. It'll depend on how saintly patient the person is, how annoyingly you ask, some other factors. You'll probably make it to like, I'm guessing, maybe four questions. The person is, how annoyingly you ask, some other factors, you'll probably make it to

like, I'm guessing, maybe four questions. The person then gets mad because to unwrap everything

about a character, while that character is also having new experiences, is impossible. Characters

are complex. There's lots of backstory, seasons, and episodes.

And that's just with fake people. Real people are so much more complicated than that.

And harder to understand. Weeks, months, years of experiences that go into each of us,

way more to us than can be updated in

a handful of annoying questions on the couch. People are so complicated that you'll never have

time to understand very many of them. A spouse, perhaps, you have a shot at understanding a spouse,

maybe your kids to some extent for a few years anyway. You could try to

understand your parents on a deep fundamental level, but I don't like your chances, quite honestly.

Maybe the best use of your time is to try to understand yourself, why you are the way you are.

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