Briefly saw the Bachelor in Paris...

Don't call me a woman yet. My wife and I were flipping through the channels last night when we happened upon the Bachelor in Paris, which was right before the 10 O'Clock news. We had just missed the rose ceremony, where the Bachelor gives out a rose to all the women that he asks to continue with him on the "journey".

I really don't know who any of the Bachelors were, but this guy is named Travis, and he's a doctor.

So when we came in, a lady named Allie, who is also a doctor started yelling at him demanding to know why she wasn't picked when she's a doctor like him and they have so much in common.

Earlier, she had apparently remarked that she was "ready to reproduce". He said that the reproduction comment scared him because he wasn't ready. I mean, what guy wouldn't be scared off by that comment 60 seconds into meeting a woman. I'm sure he wouldn't be against it, but I don't think he wants a ticking reproductive clock as a girlfriend either.

She cried and lamented that she's tried blind dates, dating services, etc and nothings worked because everyone is intimitated by her career. I think it's the baby thing that's scaring them off.

Most guys are basically scared boys when it comes to marriage and relationships. You need to ease them into the relationship. Unless he specifically says, "Hey, I'm Travis and I'm ready to reproduce," don't come back with that line yourself! Has that line ever worked?

So then they show a montage on what's going to happen this season on the Bachelor in Paris and the women in the clips talk about how great it was to do this in the most romantic city in the world. Maybe I'm a little jaded, but the Paris I saw when I visited didn't really qualify as "romantic".

I'm not sure if it was the smog-clogged streets with all of the diesel cars running around, the dogshit everywhere from people letting their dogs doing their business, the begging gypsies in the Metro stations, the expensive food, the snooty attitudes or the tons of tourists clogging to see all of the sights, but I seemed to have miss the whole most romantic city in the world thing.

I'm actually tempted to watch the rest of the series to see how many girls this guy can get with, how many women think that he's their soul mate, how many women think that their date was the most romantic date or how many times he can say that choosing among all of the hot women is the toughest thing that he's ever done. Yeah, I'm sure that medical school was no sweat. I'm tempted, but I probably won't. I have enough useless crap to watch...