One man’s voice

I say to this TV be healed!

Posted on October 3rd, 2008 in Personal Messages

A couple of weeks ago my TV died. Flat out flat lined. Kicked the bucket. Gave up the ghost. Called it quits. Went belly up.

Amid the turmoil that ensued with no babysitter for the kids (yes, this is a joke - don’t call child protective services on anyone now) we were forced to maneuver our way around parenting without the aid of Barney, Teletubbies, Calliou or Arthur. Now that’ll stretch a parent.

To facilitate our sanity my in-laws, being generous and kind, offered us their old TV that was in their guest room. We, being the fairly needy and much maligned family that we have been, resoundingly approved of receiving such a gift and as of this past Tuesday acquired it. And last night, after a very long day at work, I began the process of removing our old TV and replacing it with our in-laws old TV.

On a whim, while the old broken down TV of ours was out of its TV stand place, I decided to plug it in to test if it was indeed broken. And you know what? The darn thing fired right up. Talk about excited!

You cannot imagine the glee and joy I feel knowing that I will not need to spend money fixing a broken TV or yet more money on buying a new TV. It is nice knowing that our TV is working again. I am not sure how it broke to begin with but at the moment I don’t care. All I know is that it is fixed and I am happy. And my in-laws, being the cool people they are, not only told us we can keep their old TV but that we were more than welcome to the TV stand that it occupied. How freaking cool is that?

Now we not only have our babysitter back, we now have a TV that my wife and I can fall asleep watching in the comfort of our very own room. Yeah, life could probably get better, but for now it is pretty good.

Wonder what might happen tomorrow?