Life lessons

I'm a slow learner, but years of reading contestant stories from Wheel of Fortune have taught me four things:

1) The wheel is heavy.

2) The studio is small.

3) Vanna is nice.

4) The experience is surreal.

This story about Christina Morehouse, a Houston native who relieved the show of seventy-five grand, gets around to lessons (1) and (3). Somehow she leaves out the other two.

Another lesson is that it helps to be rambunctious, though contestants often don't talk about it. But somebody in the story mentions it for Christina. "She has this rambunctious attitude," says one of her co-workers. It's the big personality that the casting calls are always looking for.

These lessons won't help you win anything on the show, of course. You've got to be halfway decent at word games. Christina owns up to a "lifelong love of puzzles." Which is pretty good prep for a turn with Pat and Vanna.