Flipping channels and playing with the new universal (bought to replace the one which proved vulnerable to being stepped on), you go past the usual late afternoon programming: a "kid's program" mostly designed to sell toys, a special on the newly discovered ARvirus, paid programming from a company called TransDem, public television, religious t.v. Boring, BORing, BORING! Man, you need to get cable, satellite, or something!
In frustration you enter "01" into the remote and, to your surprise, a channel comes up! U.S. television isn't supposed to have a channel one....
Weirdly, this channel seems to have an oddly fascinating, shifting pattern on the screen. A voice drifts out of the speaker...
"What's your name?"
"Ian," you automatically reply, not even realizing you spoke aloud.
"Are you male or female?"
"Male." For once you don't add on the joke "last time I checked!"
"How old are you?"
"45."
"What is one thing you would like to change about yourself?"