The Death of my Cable T.V.

Due to financial circumstances, the cable company has forced me to let go one of the things that has been a part of my life for most of my fifty-four years on this earth and that’s the television. Yes folks, my cable T.V. is dead. Now I don’t know what to do with myself. I don’t how I’m going to make it without the remote in my hands just clicking away. Click, click, click.

You cable, have been my constant companion (distraction) though out all the years and I don’t know what I would have done without you. With you gone, I may have to do something so inconceivable it boggles the mind. I may have to read a book. Yes, without you cable, I may have to clean my house or mow my lawn. I may have to do all the things I dreamed of doing without you by my side. I may even venture out into the blog-o-sphere, which I’ve been planning for some time, and start writing.

I’ll have fond memories of you and all the mindless times we spent together. All the years of watching the silly sitcoms and intense dramas, the heartbreaking and agonizing news shows, the sporting events and who could forget the countless Jerry Springer shows. Oh! And I also can’t forget the times when we switched over to the premium channels to see some gratuitous sex and violence.

Those were the days. Now that you’re gone I’ll have nothing to do (accept get the house in order, a business started, the blog launched and some schooling finished.) I’ll forever miss your click, click, click of the remote because it was you cable that gave me the immortal phrase “Just let me finish this movie and then I’ll get up.” It was you cable that made me get up in the middle of the night because you were still on calling me. It was you cable that help drain my checking account when I really couldn’t afford you anyway (who indeed let the pigs out).

You gave me my memories of the days gone by when Bogart and Cagney ruled and John Wayne was riding the western trail. Yes, it was you cable that kept me looking at the reruns of Law & Order, as if I never seen them before, and the new programs like the Closer, The Shield and the much watched Bill Maher (these shows, I’ll really miss). So, I’ll say goodbye as I watch them lower you that last six feet into the earth and cover you with dirt. I’ll stand weeping at your headstone and probably notice the green is greener, the sky is bluer and the air is sweet. I’ll miss you cable. Click, click, click.

NOT!!