The Big Screen TV - 2

Watching the ancient big screen TV is a chore at our house. If you want to watch a DVD you have to get all three of the remotes lined up. One for the TV (ironically this is a “universal remote", which apparently means it only works in THIS universe on THAT TV), the sound system remote and the DVD player remote.

But more annoying is the location and intensity of lights in the house. Because this is an ancient TV you cannot have lights on in front of the TV because the technology of a non-glare screen existed everywhere EXCEPT for the TV making industry at the time this thing was built. You can’t see what is on the TV, but you can see the lights in the kitchen really well and people walking around and making popcorn in the microwave, etc.

However, no one in our living situation can comprehend turning off the lights when the TV is on, except for when it is them watching the TV then they understand it very well. So the house is full of people yelling at other people to turn off the lights so that they can watch TV and then people yelling back that they are trying to get crushed ice out of the ice maker, and they can’t do it in the dark.

As you may know, our dogs watch TV also. They only watch so they can go into uncontrollable barking spasms when another animal is on the screens. The dogs alone are the only people in the house not yelling about the lights on the same time the TV is on.