I have often heard that happiness in marriage is in direct proportion to how many toilets there are in the house. But, in our house, it’s all about the TVs. And, TIVO.
TIVO, in particular, is a miracle. It records things we didn’t even know we wanted to watch. And, it liberated us from understanding Japanese VCR settings, near misses of Quantum Leap re-runs, and having to leave happy hour early to catch E! (And, God forbid husband misses the nightly news spewing forth the latest stock market disaster.)
But, it is not a complete miracle. Our set-up doesn’t allow for TIVO-ing (read: recording) one channel and allow watching of another. (You’ll have to ask Husband, electrical engineering genius, as to exactly why this is. He lost me early on, talking about digital-split-signal-something-or-other.) So, now when Husband wants McNeil Lehrer Hour (which I know is good but comes on the heels of OTHER news and by that time I. am. just. burned. out.), I can’t record anything else or watch anything else. And, more importantly, McNeil Lehrer comes on the same time as E!’s daily entertainment download. No contest in my world.
And, while we didn’t have TIVO when we first moved in, I knew at some point, he’d want to watch Discovery and I would want to watch Bravo. So, I insisted on saving our marriage being in charge of cable hook-up when we first moved in together.
Our conversation with Cable Guy went something like this:
Cable Guy: Well, you’re all hooked up with digital TV now. Anything else?
Husband. We’re good. Thanks. See ya.
Wife: Um, what about hooking up a second TV somewhere? Probably the bedroom.
Husband: Nah. We’ll only watch in the living room.
Wife: Cable Guy. Look at me. No, over here.
Cable Guy (who turns out to be a really smart cookie): You want regular basic cable hooked up to the bedroom for $6 a month? You won’t get the premium channels, like HBO, but you’ll get things like Bravo and E!
Wife: Done.
So, now Husband is VERY glad that Wife was smart enough to have basic cable hooked up in the bedroom. He doesn’t seem to mind too much being banished moved to the bedroom to get more negative information about the world.
Great tnkhiing! That really breaks the mold!
you should invest in lightsabers attachments- t’would be more fun dueling!
We watched a program last night. It was about “your verage German”. The reporter, in all his wisdom, said “In Germany, the man typically has control of the remote.” That’s when I looked down at my belly, watching the silver device with pretty colored buttons rise rhythmically to my breath, and smiled. “She who has the remote rules the world”.
LOL! You go, Queen. (Should I admit that we have several remotes? Husband has a favorite and I have mine. We get into duels sometimes, as both work the same TV. It’s hysterical.)