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… does a Postman always bring vitally important letters, but never any unsolicited catalogues or bills or junk mail?

… does a landlady invariably have an IQ of 65, except when it comes to remembering the height, weight and hair color of every stranger that visited one of her tenants?

… can people dial so many calls in frantic haste without ever reaching a wrong number, a busy signal or a recording?

… can someone, breaking into a strange office in total darkness, never fail to locate that one important piece of evidence that the police couldn't find when they went over the place with a fine-tooth comb in broad daylight?

… is a home-made time bomb expected to explode right on the split second, even though it's always attached to the type of cheap alarm clock that is notoriously inaccurate?

… are planes and boats always completely serviced and ready for instant departure, just waiting for crooks to show up and steal so they can make their getaways?

… do newspapers ignore things like inflation, wars and unemployment in order to devote their page one headlines to some second-rate crime that almost nobody cares about?

… can a person take one quick glance into a rear-view mirror and immediately differentiate between a car that's tailing him and one that just happens to be going his way?