Reese and I didn’t have a TV for years–like the first five years we were married we were totally TV free! We both had come out of heavily TVed homes and were just sick of TV, so we didn’t want one. Well five years later we decided it would be cool for playing movies on, which we did still like, and we thought maybe if we owned a TV we didn’t have to see everything in the theater or at someone else’s house. Went out and bought a tube TV, a brand we thought was reliable. It was a $300 TV, which at the time bought a modestly decent TV–nothing too fancy, but reliable and functional.
The plot thickens!
Anyway, the TV broke just outside the warranty, and we were all sad and outraged and so forth. So my in-laws were like, “Here, take our old one–the picture sucks, but it’s something for now!” And we were all, “Yay!”
The picture did suck by the way. Whatever makes color work in tube TVs (and I won’t pretend to know) was all messed up in this one. Everything was 80s-green-and-pink (one of my most despised color combinations, I’ll have you know). =P But I digress.
Anyway, we had that crappy TV for a couple of years, and then my parents bought an uber-cool home theater sized flatscreen plasma thingamadealio, and told us, “Hey, we have this old TV, and yeah, it’s old and it’s a tube TV, but all the colors work and it’s a better picture than the other one! Plus it’s friggin’ HUGE and weighs about 200 pounds! Like owning a man, but better, because it’s entertaining and stays mostly out of the way! Plus you always know where it is, and if it annoys you there’s a handy mute button! It’ll be great!” And we were all, “Yay!”
So we lug that beast home, nearly break it just trying to get it in the apartment (we are both 5′5″, and we scarcely weigh 230 combined), somehow manage to not kill ourselves in the process, get it all set up and it’s all cool! Works great, picture’s great, everything is fan-freakin’-tabulous. So then my in-laws are like, “Sweet, can we have our old TV back? Because we’d love to set the Wii up in the office and that way we don’t have to fight over who gets to use the TV!” And we were like, “Sure, take it, our new TV is great and we’re all good here now! Plus we’ve been hoarding it for two years and it’s yours, so it’s only fair that you get it back now!” And they were all, “Yay!”
Well, we had the big one for a few months, but then it was time to move again (the second move in less than as many years). So we wrestle with it again and it’s a friggin’ nightmare because it weighs more than Mount Rushmore being raided by a sea of Leprechauns (with all their gold, mind you). But we manage to get it all set up, once again without hurting ourselves or it (we have youth to thank for that, without youth I think that TV might still be in the middle of the parking lot at our old apartment). Get it all set up and we’re good and everything.
A couple of weeks later, the TV completely burns out. Everything is dead except sound. Call around, everyone says it’s more cost effective to just buy a new one because no one even makes tube TVs anymore except really crappy companies, and it’s just pointless to repair them in this technological age.
That is why we spent $700 on a new TV. We paid extra for the lifetime warranty. We are done screwing around with TVs. We are so freakin’ tired of moving TVs in and out of our house for the last five years, we are just done.
That monstrosity that was once my parents’ TV, BTW, is still in our bedroom, on the floor by the dresser covered in a bedsheet. We just can’t bring ourselves to move it again. [Insert emotions, and things like fists being shaken in the air, the finger, etc. etc.]
We’re looking into having someone pick it up for us, as I understand there are companies that do this. God bless ‘em. I just hope they don’t charge by the pound…
Author’s Note: This is in no way intended to make anyone feel bad about giving us TVs that have crappy pictures, or weigh etc. and then break on us and so forth. We have a lot of gratitude for those of you who have bestowed on us your appliances. ;)
Hahahahahahahahahahaha.
^——- much needed laugh.
Hope your new TV gives you nothing but good times!
Happy to oblige. ;) And thanks, I hope so too, though we are justified in our lifetime warranty purchase, as we recently discovered… well, this just deserves its own post…
Just really like the last part of the paragraph that starts, “like owning a man, but better… ” Not a comment on dehumanizing men, but they are just SO confusing and exasperating, that sometimes it just boils down to this. Mainly, men are the best, until they piss you off. Then, they are still the best, especially when they go somewhere else.
Anyway, exceptional picture!! Me like!
Ah, I have to admit, I did feel like it was a tad harsh on the male gender, and mostly I don’t really feel that way overall. But it just sorta flowed out as I was writing, and then after re-reading it, I did sorta like it too much to remove it. =P I, personally, am a lover of men.
“Men are the best, until they piss you off. Then, they are still the best, especially if they go somewhere else.” Hahahahaha! I laughed my butt off so hard at this statement! It really is true, although for me, it applies to women as well. But hahaha, that just really cracked me up. Amazing. =)
Glad you enjoyed it.