Exercise #5 - Something that goes too far

Write a piece in which someone or something goes too far.

We have gone through a lot of phases in our television viewing history. Our first phase was "Friends" every week with a fellow teacher after a spaghetti dinner. Then the "Crocodile Hunter" reruns, "CSI" every week, "Lost" with friends after a spaghetti dinner (I make good spaghetti and for some reason see it as a no work dinner and make it in great quantities for friends.), now reality shows, "So You Think you Can Dance", "Dancing with the Stars", "Project Runway", "America's Next Top Model". For a while we loved "Trading Spaces".
A friend and I would watch it together, or apart and with much phone discussion, every week. We liked most of the designers, but feared Hildy. She usually went a little too far. One episode she was making over a very large master bathroom and staple gunned fake flower heads to all of the walls, as a type of 3-d wall paper.
What we thought was the most crazy was a living room for a lesbian couple with two small children. Hildy painted the walls a maroon color and then slathered them with a gloppy glue and put pieces of hay all over the walls. When asked what would happen when the little toddlers would try to pull the hay off the wall and eat it, she said, "tell them not to", making me think that she had never had children, or spent any time with them at all.
We sat aghast as the room took on the look of a messy barn floor and repeated that, nope if we were ever on the show, we wouldn't want Hildy to be our designer.
She just went too far.