Saturday, February 20, 2010
hold sides and guffaw
oh y'all...i am writing this through tears...and trying to hold back a volcano of guffaws - no outright gasping laughter. and ok - i will say up front that you will know i am a mean girl after reading this. or maybe you can relate. after an incredibly strenuous few months of swooning over flat panel TV's, my husband finally bought one. it will be here next week. now, what's the point of a bigass spanky new TV without digital, right? so he signed up for digital TV. which means a new box. AND a new remote. that brings the total to 4 remotes. he has been setting this up for hours HOURS now, blown the fuses once, smelled something plastic=y melting-like once, swore countless times, and has been reduced to muttering things like "video in? cable in? WTF" all while wearing his coalminer hat with the LED light on it while stuffed behind the TV armoire. so far, we got a Spanish version of American Idol and a blank screen. and add into the mix that he is sick. of course he feels worse than i did...he is a man. so that is why i am taking special delight in this. i watch very little TV, so our old TV was fine with me. but he wore me down with his Wanting Of New Technology. and he was frustrated because there was no justifying argument he could make to me, since i truly didn't care, and would point out how many weeks of college a new TV would pay for for his children. when he got a letter advising him that he inherited some money (a small amount - just about the same amount as his Dream TV), i urged him to just Buy The TV and hush. so many many websites and shopping trips and conversations with bored salesclerks later, his dream will be realized next week. for now...the pleasure is mine.
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Absolutely hysterical...I have one of those same gargantuan TV cravers living under my roof...He would do without food and even beer to have his state of the art, oh so cool flat screen in his cineplex (AKA: family room) tee hee hee!
That's hysterical! Mine bought us one for Christmas and I think he was almost more excited about it arriving overnight, for free, from a company in NJ (how do they do that??) than the TV itself! And of course we had to jump through the same hoops as you, with more remotes, a new satellite dish because it meant signing up for HDTV, etc. Why does a universal remote never work? You need 3 remotes to watch a DVD now! My role in all of this was to look online for a wall bracket (think child safety anti-furniture-tipping dodads) to attach it to the wall... because they are tippy and baby Beaner kitty liked to jump from the old FAT TV to our exposed beams... so new SKINNY TV is bracketed to the wall and furniture was moved so she can't even think of getting to the top of it! Enjoy the TV. I don't watch much, either, but I've been on a movie renting craze, and have enjoyed the one about Beatrix Potter's life, some good chic flicks, etc. I swear the image clarity is often better than what I see in real life through my glasses. :-)
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