Afishionados,

On Sundays, I like to watch ABC’s Extreme Makeover: Home Edition television show. For those of you heartless bastards who don’t watch it, the show’s premise is simple: People send in videos to ABC explaining why they deserve to have ABC build them a brand new house, then ABC chooses one to build for. Usually the families have dilapidated homes due to deaths in the family or medical bills. Almost always, these families have children as well.

The show has a design team of 3 or 4 people. Each person of the team takes on a separate part of the house. There are always a couple people who sit down and ask the children what they would like to see in their “dream bedroom”, then they go on to incorporate these ideas and suggestions into the finished room.

So far, I have seen a bedroom built as a dollhouse, an indoor sandbox, a room designed like a boutique, a room with a fishing boat bed, a camouflage room with an indoor treehouse and slide, a room with a firetruck bed, a “spy room” with toy gadgets everywhere, and a room with a pit of plastic balls for kids to jump in. Every time I watch the show, I think of the exact same thing:

What the hell are these kids gonna do when they’re older, sneak their prom date into the house and up to their room, and proposition them for sex?

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