I am feeling really worked up at the moment which is unusual for me at such a late hour of the night.  Typically, I’m too tired to care.

About a week ago, Kevin and I saw a commercial for a TLC show called “My Baby Monkey.”  The excerpts shown in the commercial were enough to make me say, “Did that really just happen?!”  So I proceeded to tell everyone at work about it and set my DVR to record this strange situation.

We got a chance to watch it tonight and my sister was right when she said that these people should either be put away or put down.  I mean, they are crazy-not-right-in-the-head.  [This blog is a great way to express my freedom of speech.  Thank you, Constitution.]

The one couple who I am particularly upset by are Jim & Lori and their “daughter” Jessica Marie, who is an 18-year-old monkey.  Try this on for size.  Lori is whacko.  Lori has 6 children and goes through severe empty nest depression when they all leave.  (Somewhere in here, her husband left as well.)  So she’s hospitalized for three months, then decides that really what upsets her is that her children grew up.  Her way to cope with this?  Obviously, get a pet monkey who will be a “baby” forever.  This “child” will never grow up, go to school, graduate, and ultimately, leave her.  Not surprising, her children haven’t spoken to her for the last 5 years.

Somewhere in the last 10-15 years, she met Jim and she told him that if he wants to get serious with her, he’s gonna have to get serious with her “daughter” too.  Sure enough, he is the proud “daddy” of little Jessie now and they even had her as a bridesmaid in their wedding.  Jim, in fact, loves his little girl so much that he says, “If I hear someone call her a monkey, I throw a fit.  She’s my daughter, 100%.”

Top it off with this: they’ve set up their monkey child in their will as it is likely she will outlive them.  They want to make sure that she is absolutely taken care of when/if they die before she does.  She is the queen bee to their inheritance.  I can only feel sorry for Lori’s 6 grown children and multitude of grandchildren.  What would it be like to have your mother love her pet monkey more than you?