knitwit45 wrote:moirafinnie wrote:knitwit45 wrote:and I was the remote control...)
O Hearty Pioneer! Remember trudging across the vast living room to actually change the dial using your hand? They don't make 'em like that anymore (There are people reading this asking "what's a dial?").
Moira, it wasn't a very long trudge, as my brothers and I always sat on the floor, with noses as close to the set as possible. Remember the Parental cry, "you'll ruin your eyes!!!!"? Well, I guess they were right in my case, glasses by the 5th grade, and should have had them one year earlier.
Now back to your scheduled programming.....
Our parents hated television and only bought sets that were:
a.) Second or Third Hand
b.) Missing Important Parts
c.) On their last legs
d.) Only purchased when something of interest to them was going to be televised (a national election or a World Series).
Under category B, that missing part included the dial to change channels on one memorable set. We had to steal a steak knife from the silver chest, stick it
just so into the part of the television where the the turner mechanism was, and try to switch channels without causing sparks to fly or getting ourselves electrocuted. Oh, those were the days!
Btw, we also ruined the point of some perfectly good steak knives this way too. The set lasted about one summer and half a fall.