The door shuts, and the only sounds that occupy the night air are the crickets and the television from the next door neighbor. With your head down you begin that sad lonely walk back to your car. You replay the date over again in your mind criticizing yourself for all the bad jokes that she didn't get. As you pass every light, you wish you would have completed her on something better than her shoes and her hair scrunchy. Now to make the whole night worse you realize that you are low on gas, and there were millions of people from numerous countries around the world snickering at you when you pronounced her name wrong.
             Sounds like the average bad date, every part except for the millions of people watching. It is always comforting to know that when rejection rears his ugly face at you, that you can always block it with denial. And you can always tell your friends that she had to move back to Sweden for a surgery. But now in the midst of a new century, as if our privacy isn't already intruded on enough, there are a slew of new dating shows to wash away our dating woes.
             No one is sure who gets credit for the appearance of these hip reality type shows. Some believe it is MTV's Real World who led the younger generation into this new fad. "The Real World was the first show I have seen on television that portrayed people in their true nature...rude and lazy." Said sophomore Molly Kinsman. Others think it was popular game shows like Survivor and Big Brother. "When they changed the format into a game type atmosphere, they now had a bigger market of watchers." Replied freshman Robert East. There are a few that believe that William Wallace is heavily related to this phenomenon. Still the
             present is a product of the past, and these shows are among us. Except now instead of game shows or roommates, dates seem to be more entertaining these days. After a long strenuous day at school or at ...