Jami and the Judges

I love my "judge shows". Judge Judy and the People's Court amuse me daily and keep me informed of important legal principals, such as don't give someone cash without getting a receipt. I know, you'd never have thought of that, would you? My question is, who would agree to go on one of these shows? I mean, let's face it, in every single case, at least one of the parties ends up looking like a jerk or a moron. Sometimes, both sides end up being humiliated. So, if you go on the show, you've got at least a 50-50 chance of making a big ol' fool out of yourself. And yet, there are so many fools, that they had to start making more of these judge shows. I don't watch the others. I can only take so much. What really gets to me are the people who have been so egregiously stupid and feel like someone should give them money for that, such as "Well, yes, I continued to 'lend' thousands of dollars to my known drug addict boyfriend even though he never paid me back a cent of the previously loans, but I absolutely expected to get it all back." Or "I added my new friend that I'd known for all of three days to my cell phone plan, and I can't believe that she'd run the bill up on me and not pay." The defense today to why someone didn't pay their rent "I shouldn't have signed that lease because I couldn't afford it, so I don't think I should have to pay it." Sometimes I take a break from these shows to allow my faith in humanity to rebuild itself. But no matter how long I stay away, when I come back, there's always someone explaining that even though they totalled the car because they were driving drunk, it's really someone else's fault . . . sigh . . .