I miss 1978

Remember the olden days when the TV set had a speaker built right in and an antenna sitting on the top?

I miss those days. When someone would have to go stand by the set (which was sitting on a cabinet in the corner, no entertainment centers) stand next to it and hold one of the rabbit ears juuuust right to get the reception so we could all watch “The Brady Bunch.” Sometimes we even had a wad of tin foil on the end of the rabbit ears to help.

Things are different now.

The speaker stopped working on our flat screen TV. So we got a new speaker. I, in my antiquity, thought, “Piece o’cake. Just plug it in.”

wrOng.

I tell you, after you manage to get the TV down off the wall, you read the 17 page booklet that comes with the new speaker and THEN you start trying to figure out which of the 73 cords that came with it are the one you are supposed to use….you start to wonder why you care what’s on TV anyway. Maybe I’ll just go back to radio.

Kids, this is for you. Have you ever wondered why we use the term, “change the channel?” That’s because your mommy and daddy used to have to actually get up, walk over to the TV and turn a dial. That’s right kids, there were no remote controls in the olden days. Sometimes they even had to jiggle the dial for a few minutes until it settled in just the right spot. And they didn’t have shows about inappropriate things. No, kids, their shows were about 7 castaways stranded on a desert island that ate coconut cream pie at every meal.

But I digress……

Ahhhh……

Now I have three remote controls….four if I want to use the DVD player.

The speaker (thanks to my super genius DUH) is now working and the TV is back on the wall (thanks to my super strong 17 year old son).

I hope nothing else goes out…….

At least nothing that a wad of tin foil won’t fix.

This will be reposted on my second blog.