As much as some of you may not believe this, not excluding my wife, I do love my kids. But I think any parent can dig what I mean when I’m happy about the time they go to bed. 8:30 is the time they’re supposed to go up but very rarely does that actually happen… it’s usually around 9 or so before they actually go up -and they always find a reason to come back down. The other night was no different; the oldest comes down around 10 o’clock with the youngest right behind him. Usually they go right to my wife because they know that nothing they can say to me will be a good reason to be downstairs at 10 -this time they came right to me:
oldest: Dad, our TV just went to a black screen with little letters on it and classical music started playing!
tesco: I know this sounds crazy, but isn’t it 10:00?
oldest: (unphased by my question) I checked every channel, it’s all the same…
tesco: What the hell are you talking about?
oldest: Dude, you have to see it! Come up!
I closed all my emails, cleared my history (just to be safe) and went upstairs with the boys. Sure enough, the kid was right. The screen had what appeared to be DOS commands on it while Mozart was playing through the speakers. I went through the channels and nothing changed. I switched to “video” and blue-screen came up.
tesco: well, I guess you’re gonna be sleeping to classical music
youngest: We better sleep downstairs
oldest: We can’t, it’s a school night -dad, what are you gonna do? We need TV to sleep!
tesco: Are you serious? (suddenly sounding very old) I never had a damn TV in my room and even if I did, it wouldn’t be on at night!
oldest: …
youngest: …
oldest: Can we use your TV?
tesco: What? Did you hear what I just said? I can’t believe this is an issue!
youngest: Dad, we need TV to sleep.
That’s when it dawned on me, they do need TV to sleep and it’s all our fault! They’ve had a TV in their room since they were babies simply because neither my wife, nor I did. Now I have to come up with something if I expect them to sleep! I quickly grabbed my DVD player from my room, hooked it up, grabbed a DVD from their collection and within a half hour, they were asleep.
Why am I telling you all this?
Because due to the immediate need for a TV in their room, they inherited ours and tesco got his LCD, HDTV in his room now.
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