Wasting Time in the Wee Hours of the Night
What do you do in the wee hours of the night, when your family is asleep but the sweet land of dreams eludes you? If you’re like this writer you probably surf the Internet. Looking for new and interesting Websites in an attempt to find a temporary cure or treatment for insomnia has become a popular home remedy. It costs virtually nothing and you can distract yourself by reading articles and clicking on pictures you’ll never see again. But some nights it seems better to look for people you may once have known.
One of the really cool tricks is to look up people you knew when you were a kid to see where they are now. But what do you do when you know someone with a common first name or last name? Do you really want to click on their “Make so-and-so- a friend” link on their social media app? Or do you just settle for looking at a picture that might be your old bud Tom from 6th grade but you cannot be sure because now he is 37?
And then there are the times when you just look up strangers. Take Dennis Tamburo, for example. Have you ever heard of this guy? Nope. He’s just some name you come across on the Internet. If you’re really curious you’ll try to find out how many Dennis Tamburos there really are, but these online search tools don’t work all that great, do they>
You can ask yourself, “If my name was Charles Smith, where would I want to live?” But let’s face it. You’re not looking for strangers. You’re looking for that cute girl who lived two doors down when you were 10 years old. You were always afraid to talk to her. Or you want to know if your best friend’s boyfriend from 8th grade turned out to be some dweeb. Look! She married him and they have four ugly kids! (Or maybe they’re beautiful kids.)
It can be a pleasant passtime and who knows? Maybe you’ll get sleepy just as soon as you find out that Dennis Tamburo has a Facebook account. Should you make him a friend? …yawn… Maybe it’s time to sleep on it.
