Re: [CH] Trading Spouses
Linda Reynolds (lr21@cornell.edu)
Sat, 19 Mar 2005 08:48:14 -0500 (EST)
Dang, and from the subject line I thought I would have the opportunity to trade my spouse for another.....
Those reality shows know no bounds. We chileheads are a bit kooky but we don't necessarily want it aired all over the country!
-----Original Message-----
> Date: Sat Mar 19 08:33:14 EST 2005
> From: "Susan Welsand" <chilewmn1@bluemarble.net>
> Subject: [CH] Trading Spouses
> To: chile-heads@globalgarden.com
>
> 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
>