once upon a time, there was a very earnest college sophomore named hollylynn. she had watched every episode of the bachelor/bachelorette there was. she and her roommates loved every season and watched faithfully as a "family." even though she can't remember a single contestant at all now, the bachelor(ette) franchise was very important to her, and it was so nice to see chris harrison getting work other than on that horrendous hgtv show, designer's challenge (which she also loved a lot, btw). no, she doesn't remember any of them. except one.
the one with meredith.
you remember meredith, too. short dark hair, square jaw, terrible at making huge life decisions on tv...ringing any bells?
you know...this clown:
it was a pretty standard season of the bachelorette until she chose ian over matt. or was it matt over ian? who has time to think about names, anyway.
the point is, hollylynn, along with one of her roommates (someone remind me which one!) was in love with matt/ian/the one that didn't get picked and they knew that since they couldn't have him because they were no good at sharing, that meredith should have him. they were mfeo.
but it goes beyond that. not only were the girls miffed about meredith's poor choice, they actually cried about it.
tears.
it was very emotional.
and one of the other roommates (it was kassie or rashelle...one who wasn't crying) took pictures of hollylynn and her roommate, boo-hooing over stupid meredith. all i can say is: good thing facebook hadn't been invented yet, because that was not a pretty picture. and had mark zuckerberg gotten around to his invention just a year or two earlier, there would be a horrid picture tagged of hollylynn, crying at a reality tv show, online for the viewing pleasure/horror of all those who would facebook stalk her forever more.
so thank you, mark zuckerberg, for putting off your innovation until hollylynn's junior year. because of facebook's delayed inception, she was able not only to actually focus on her studies for the first two years of school, but she was also able to escape public humiliation (until she subjected herself to it anyway by writing this post).
