Re: [CH] Trading Spouses
Linda Panter (lipant@sympatico.ca)
Sat, 19 Mar 2005 08:47:18 -0500
Was it called Trading Spouses? How tacky! What was the angle
they portrayed?
Linda
----- Original Message -----
From: Susan Welsand
To: chile-heads@globalgarden.com
Sent: Saturday, March 19, 2005 8:33 AM
Subject: [CH] Trading Spouses
I've been meaning to post this story for months and I keep
forgetting!
Anwyay, last winter, people from this TV show contacted me and
wanted me
to be on their show. At first I thought it was just a friend
playing a
joke on me but soon disovered they were serious and it was a real
TV show.
They said they were looking for a female farmer from the Midwest
and
thought my being a chile farmer made a nice twist. I think they
had a
misguided notion of the scale of my operation. Calling me a
farmer is a
little grand, more like a farmerette maybe. Anyway, I declined
(although
you get $50,000. Thats a lot of baby money!). I watched the show
to see
what it was like and they really make people look weird. I can
only
imagine how odd Terry and I would have come off. Okay, we are a
little odd
anyway, but I got the feeling they would have played up the
pepper angle,
and make the chilehead world look like a bunch of kooks. I wonder
if they
are still searching for their female Midwestern farmer....
Susan
The Chile Woman