Ice Road Truckers are Wussies

Anymore, whenever "they" come out with a new "reality" show, I just roll my eyes. Or worse. But yesterday, after we got back from camping, I was bored and feeling pretty lazy. There was no NASCAR on, it was raining outside - so needless to say, I was in trouble.

I finally stole the remote away from my pregnant wife when I simply couldn't stand watching some other reality show with Denise Richards. Anyway, I flipped to the very start of the season 2 marathon of "Ice Road Truckers." Can I just say one thing? These guys are wusses. I don't care if you are driving a 90-ton semi across the frozen Arctic Ocean in -40 degree temperatures. There isn't any traffic! :) What the heck? How is that hard?

To those who may not have seen it, it's basically a bunch of Canadian hillbillies loading up their semi's, driving straight down a frozen river, into the frozen ocean to this tiny eskimo town. Over, and over, and over again. (Did I mention that evil oil companies are involved?) Once in a while, one of the hillbillies (the one with a purple mohawk) will get pissed and break his truck. Somebody else will get pissed because the dude broke his truck and they'll go round and round for a few hours yelling at each other. To maintain the suspenseful tension, the narrator will talk about how "dangerous" the ice is - about every two minutes. Give me a break. They measured the ice and it's 51" thick. Wussies. Get a real job.

Regardless, I watched it for about 5 hours. Every single episode, in fact. I felt like it was real-time it took so long. I can't wait until next week when we find out if Alex makes it to the tiny eskimo town - for about the thousandth time.