Monster T.V.s

By Two Point Four Children on Oct 31, 09 07:04 PM

At one point, Son Number Two had three in his bedroom... One for his X Box, one to watch and one on which to dump his discarded clothes...

Downstairs isn't a problem. In the living room we have a smart 32 inch plasma and a smaller, neater 16 inch version in the kitchen for my other half to watch when he's cooking.

Upstairs is another matter. It really is a case of the monster TV's taking over. Son Number Two had a huge old television in his bedroom which he had to thump every so often to get the sound back on. So he swapped it with the one in Son Number One's room as he was away from home.

Then Son Number One arrived home with a big black monstrosity of a telly which we'd forgotten he'd had in his house at Uni. Trouble is the 'On' button didn't work unless you stuck a pencil in it and it went off every half an hour but he insisted it was fine, he was used to it and he didn't want any other.

Things continued in this vein for quite some time until I came into our bedroom one day and saw that the biggest, most monstrous telly of all was sat on top of my chest of drawers. Large as life, it glowered at me, oozing dust, jostling my perfume bottles over the edge, obscuring the mirror and casting dark shadows over everything in the room...

Ours had stopped working so my other half had swapped it with yet another one that had been lurking in the loft. However, I soon got rid of that one. (At the moment we are tellyless in our room and I hope it stays that way).

I have been hinting at how much technology has changed and how smart and streamlined the new smaller plasma televisions are but it doesn't make any difference. For some reason they are all very attached to their old tellies...

Still I know what I'm buying them for Christmas...