Scary…
June 9, 2008 4:25 pm
Christine
i'm on a rant, just stuph
…at least for me.
The digital converter box for our old analog TV sets work well enough. But I do have a few gripes about the bedroom one. Sometimes, it just turns itself off, and there is snow on the TV screen. But even worse, once in a while it turns off the whole TV.
Every time this happens, it scares me half to death. I HAVE to have a TV on when I sleep. If I wake up and it’s off, I freak. Mike knows this, and would never dare to shut it off while I’m sleeping. He doesn’t want to hear the freaking out screaming that would ensue. He’s learned to live with it, and I’ve learned to compromise by not requiring the sound to be turned up.
Years ago, when I lived alone, I fell asleep on my sofabed while watching “Saturday Night Live”. I used to fall asleep a lot with the TV on, I was used to waking up and seeing it on.
Anyhoo, on the Saturday night in question here, some guy invaded my apartment, through an open window, when I was asleep, and I awoke to this strange guy in my bed. And HE HAD TURNED THE TV OFF.
I jumped up and started screaming bloody murder. I went to call the cops, and he literally got down on his knees and begged me not to. He didn’t want his mother back home in Honduras to find out what a pervert her son was.
Okay, so I told him that if he left NOW, I would not call the police. He ran out the door so fast, it wasn’t funny. As soon as he was gone, I closed and locked the door and the windows, and called the cops. Oh, and bring a K-9 unit, too, I said to the cop on the phone. The loser left his t-shirt on the floor.
So the cops came, complete with dog, and they found the guy. Huddling outside behind the garbage cans, “where he belongs”, as one of the cops said.
He was convicted of breaking and entering and attempted rape, and was sent back to his mother in Honduras.
This happened about 20 years ago, but I still freak out over the TV being shut off thing. And now, with the TV turning itself off because of the digital converter box, I wonder if we should consider getting a new, already digital LCD TV for the bedroom. Maybe that would not shut itself off for no reason in the middle of the night.
I also wonder what I am going to do when analog goes away next year, and I can no longer use my little portable TV. I always take that along when we stay at hotels and inns that don’t have in-room TVs. Dan’s place is such an inn, and I’d really have to give up staying there because I am scared to wake up without a TV on. So I should look to see if I can find an affordable portable digital TV, too. There is no way to hook up a converter box to the little TV I have.
What to do, what to do?
