Driving an expensive car. Owning a mansion on the beach. Rubbing elbows with celebs at Christmas in Aspen. Flying first class -- or better yet, in your private plane. These have always been symbols of status. You've made it --- if you count money as the marker for success.
There's another group eager to assume a superior than thou stance: those who snootily say they don't watch TV or, worse yet, they don't even own a TV.
Of course, I immediately respond by raving about the benefits of PBS, hoping to neutralize the situation while not admitting that I do indeed care about Meredith Grey's love life.
Does their tube-less life give them a mental edge? Is it supposed to generate an aha moment in which I realize I could be reading the Bible or volunteering in a homeless shelter?
It's TV watchers you want on your Trivial Pursuit team. It's TV watchers you want at your cocktail party when you warn somebody about double-dipping or finish a sentence with ya-da-ya-da-ya-da. They get it!
Sometimes TV is the perfect remedy. Having been active all day, watching TV gives me a chance to be passive. To just sit for a bit and chill.
I hardly see it as the end of civilization -- unless you're watching "Dancing With the Stars".
1 comment:
Now this was funny and I agree with you 100%. My mom does not watch TV or own one, but she didn't watch even when I was a child so it's just her thing. I watched way too much TV growing up so I am always good on the Pink Trivial Pursuit questions. Also it's weird when I meet the rare parent who doesn't allow TV. All of a sudden there's nothing else to say.
I feel sorry for the kid when they grow up and go....Lucy who?
Great post.
Steph
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