I am Into TV and While that Should Constitute Embarrassment, Sadly it does Not

I was laying on my Sunday nap bed and I just kept thinking this thought:

What has been invented since I was born? Did it really make life better? Should I make a list? Why do I keep thinking this? Out of all the things I could be thinking about why go there? These are questions I have no answer to. But here is a list with a running theme. Just to keep my head quiet. All of the following has been born in the last 50 something years:

here we go:

1. Color TV.

Oh I remember when color TV was the biggest deal EVER. It was only in the finest of motels. Yes, I said motels because our family NEVER stayed in a hotel. We were strictly MOTEL people. Usually with a 6 in front of it. Then my Grammie got a color TV. We piled into the car and drove an hour just to watch Lawrence Welk at her house.

I always hated that show. But her TV made me drool. When our family got one for Christmas one year, I was sure we were finally rich. And would stay in hotels from then on. I was sorely mistaken. I am saying this purely to make my brother laugh. You're not the only one who reads this thing you know.

2. Remote Controls.

This picture is for my brother as well, because he loves dogs. And the finer things in life.

Back to remote controls. I'm not sure when our society became so lazy that someone decided that they better invent something so that while we were sitting on a couch willingly having our minds programmed we would have a device that would make it so we could mindlessly sit and never have to leave the couch no matter what, but I'm glad they did. If I had to get up and change the channel, my feet would have broken months ago. It is their only hope for healing.

You know you wanted to see this shot again. You KNOW you did.

3. Satellite TV.

When I was a kid, there were but 4 channels. That would be: abc, cbs, nbc, and the channel that was public broadcasting. My favorite shows as a preschooler were: Captain Kangaroo, and Romper Room, and that was it.

(Romper Room was basically a show that was a show about what preschool might be like if ever there was such a thing as preschool. I always believed with all my heart that if Miss Julie ever said my name at the end of Romper Room, that that was a sign from heaven that I was supposed to be one of the kids on Romper Room the following week. When it finally happened, my mother said PPHHHHHHT and that was that. I really wanted to be on that show. Another young girl's dream unfulfilled.)

Later on, I turned into a Flintstones and Bewitched girl

and then there was the Bonanza phase and the I Dream of Jeanie phase. Not to mention my love affair for the Beav. I liked him because I felt superior to his social awkwardness. Believe it or don't. ANYWAY, there was never all that much choice in the world. I wonder how I would have turned out if I could have been exposed to Super Why in my life. Or the Lifetime Movie Network. Or a 24 hour news channel. All I know is that on Saturday mornings I still wake up and am afraid that all that will be on is ABC's Wide World of Sports

and I am utterly delighted when I have a million things to choose from. I have already experienced enough 4 man bobsled races to last me a lifetime.

4. HD TV.

While I have a TV that will accept HD, I have not yet made the plunge. I am too cheap. I would be embarrassed if I was into TV SO much that I had HD. Really crossing a line there.


5. HUGE TVS.

My new daughter in law, His Lady Gloria Formally Tibbitts, has expressed dissapproval of Tim's ugly huge TV. And rightly so. I appreciate her outspokenness, particularly since I concur. I threatened to bury Tim in that monster TV, but then I got addicted to the Home Shopping Network for a deep dark time in my life and that was that. When Tim's TV dies, and goes to live with Tim and Gracie the cat in heaven, I will wish like crazy for another big TV. And all my children will chip in and buy me one for Christmas. Because I know at least ONE daughter in law thinks I need a new TV. And she will do ANY THING for me because I birthed her man, and she's new to the family and she has a desire to make me love her the most.

You know, if I was a really mean mother in law, I would go ahead and let the new daughter in law think she had to fork out money for a new TV for me. I could sit around and wait and see if she took it upon herself to head up the buy-the-beloved-Mommacita-a-new-TV-committee, when the proper time came. But I am not mean, because in fact on Romper Room I learned from that bee puppet to Do Be a Do Bee, and Don't be a Don't Bee. Which means be nice. It's all a joke His Lady, all a ridiculous joke. You never have to buy me a TV. Unless of course you take pity on me and my widowness.

PS I really really miss values TV