If you watch The History Channel you may have watched some of that show called "Pawn Stars" about a real pawn shop in Las Vegas.

This past weekend the grandson, Corey, got in a bar brawl in Big Bear, California and was arrested on misdemeanor charges and then released. Maybe something about it will mentioned on the show, since that's the sort of thing that gives the grand-dad and dad's something to gripe about. In other words, a semblance of a plot.

In case you've never seen Pawn Stars, here's my summary:

The pawn shop's real name is The Gold & Silver Pawn Shop and it's located in downtown Las Vegas. It's not much of a place, and the TV show doesn't present it as much of a place, but there are some things you have to go

Because of the popularity of the show, there is always a line of tourists waiting to get inside the pawn shop. If you take something to sell you stand there in line with it, similar to Antiques Roadshow. We're told it's open 24/7 but it's not, in case you were thinking of going in the wee hours of the night to avoid the line.

A local reporter went there with an autographed Beatles album, expecting to exchange light banter with the stars of the show. They were nowhere to be seen because now they only go there when for filming and the rest of the time they are out spending their big TV money and the big profits they make on the stuff they buy.

Before he went in, he considered getting a certificate of authenticity for the signature on his record album, but would have had to send it to someone by mail, so decided the Pawn Stars would call in a local expert to look at it for him like they do on the show.

Except they don't call in an expert for you. The pawn shop representative who was doing the intake refused to even look at the record album without a certificate of authenticity.

So the real 'reality' is nothing like the TV 'reality' - we shouldn't be surprised, but it is a little disappointing to have our bubble burst like this. I think putting people on TV destroys those elements of their lives that made them interesting to watch, they are no longer just folks struggling with daily life, they are now rich celebrities pretending to struggle with daily life in zillion dollar houses with fancy cars and the parents go their separate ways and the kids just wander around under the care of nannies.

Or in the case of the Pawn Stars, they are no longer seedy little guys trying to make a buck off the people who need to convert their belongings into quick cash, now they are seedy rich guys in $250 blue jeans living the high life.