The first, was actually the most interesting. No sooner than I had mentioned at work that my TV set died, than people began approaching me and offering their "Old TV set" And that sparked me into thinking. When did the Television change from being a luxury item, into a surplus item? Like kitchen grease, the challenge in this day and age isn't "What can I do with this" but rather "How do I get rid of this"
Televisions used to be a luxury item that people regarded as either a pestilence upon our lives, or a portal to the larger world community. Edward R. Murrow waxing poetic over the sight of the Golden Gate Bridge and the Atlantic coast on the same TV Monitor. And now we have reality TV Games where people plot against each other to be thrown off an island, and now we have surplus supplies of sets that have to be given away at any possible opportunity.
A long way from the days of the neighborhood kids rushing home from school to gather at a neighbors house to watch "Howdy Doody", shouting in a communal rush of pre-adolescent ecstasy "It's Howdy-Doody Time!"
The other reason was the sudden crashing sense of SILENCE in my apartment.
When you're a single guy living alone. the human noise provided by the television is a necessity to ones sanity.
Can you believe that some one just said that about Television?
So I accepted a friends offer, and I once again have a noise box in my home. Ooh. Gotta go. Springers' on.
2 comments:
I don't know if I'm glad that you have a friend's cast-off TV...is it a 'TUBE'??? My second response is in regard to your comment about "Howdy Doody Time"...do you actually remember that????
Lots of love, mom
You didn't make it that long;-)
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