My wife Lorie doesn’t listen to radio shows from the 1940’s or watch TV shows from the 1970’s or read comic books from the 1960's or obsess on things like music spreadsheets and playlist orders. My wife does annoyingly practical things, like live in the present.
My wife works on the addition. Has for years. As far as I know, that’s what she does for fun now. Works on our house addition. Heaven only knows what she’ll do when we actually finish the thing. OH! And she watches HGTV. Lots and lots of HGTV.
One of the shows she watches on HGTV is “Love it or List it”. I think the show’s a reality show where one person tries to find a beleaguered home-owning couple a new home while the other person tries to show the home-owner what can be done with their existing home. At the end of the show the home-owner has to decide whether or not to “Love it or List it”.
MY problem is this: the kids. They’re so trained from birth to flock to a television set that’s on that it no longer matters what the show is actually about. So while Katie has the will to pull herself away from a show she has no interest in, neither Ashton nor Alex has shown this particular super power. They’ll sit in front of the TV for hours no matter what’s on.
I call the TV the ‘stupid-maker’. My Grandmother used to call it the “Idiot Box”.
The other day I was dutifully going through my nightly list of Daddy-follow-ups and caught my six-year-old son Alex sitting in front of the TV in a stupor. "Alex, time for shower!"
"AaaawwwaAAAAaaah!" He moaned.
"Get your pajamas, get your butt to the bathroom, and get naked!"
"Yes sir." He trudged off.
Fifteen minutes later Lorie paused her show to check on him while I worked with the older kids on other stuff. Just as she put a hand on the bathroom door, he barreled out. Half-dressed and pulling his pajama top on over his still-soaking head.
"Mommy! Mommy!" he cried out.
"Yes. Alex I'm right here." Lorie was startled. "What is it?"
"Did they love it or list it?"
...
Lorie stood there giggling. I stood there fuming. And Alex stood there dripping.
Definitely too much TV around here.
Thanks,
DCD
Now at least I know what that show is.At our Wellness gym they have the big screen tv set on HGTV all the time. My feeling is the network only has a few shows that play on a loop! We have seen the same show or two over and over. Dad asked them to change the channel and they could not even find the control!! I want to tell them to "just hire Ben and Jeff and get the work done." It's sweet that Alex was enthralled!! DixiegirlinVT
ReplyDeleteChuck,
ReplyDeleteDon't leave us in suspense. Did they love it or list it?
Gramps
That's one thing I definitely don't miss about not having television service --HGTV. It's like bubblegum for the mind.
ReplyDeleteSO why is it you don't turn the TV off?
ReplyDeleteMatt