“Dang TV,” said Hammerhaid who’s all “flustrated” over the new television season.
H-man was loaded for bear Sunday, awwww, was it Monday night, with all his programs starting up once again????
Trouble is his wife Betty Lou has some different ideas on what constitutes good TV watching. Yep, it is the soap-operary things versus murder and mayhem. And let us not forget that &^%$ National Parks thing on PBS.
Just recounting this saga is enough to make your head spin like that little girl in the old, stone-age flick, “The Exorcist.”
It all began Sunday.
Hammerhaid was already hacked off because of the feeble effort by the Titans. That was so bad that he went shopping with Betty Lou before halftime Sunday.
They had a nice lunch and ran a couple of errands and arrived back in time to see the dismal end of the game. The Titan defense was horrible thanks, chiefly, to one big trade and the loss of the defensive coordinator.
To top it off, the Titans were wearing their old baby blue and white Houston Oilers uniforms for the big game versus the New York Jets.
“I reckon they have decided to go incognito,” Hammerhaid decided before trying to set up the TV to record the evening fare. “That’s probably for the best.”
Well anyway, Hammerhaid blew it. Blame in on that dismal effort by the Titans.
It was Betty Lou’s night on TV. “Desperate Housewives,” “Amazing Race” and Hammerhaid’s most hated show, “Brothers and Sisters.”
But when H-man added “The National Parks” to the mix, he messed up. (No, not on purpose.) Instead of clicking the button that would have recorded the initial program once, he set it to record each broadcast, including the repeats.
Sooooooo, he ended up recording it about three or four times on Sunday night.
As a result, the season premiere of “Desperate Housewives” got bumped and probably “Brothers and Sisters.” That wasn’t a good thing.
It got worse and not the way you think.
Episode one of the National Parks was dull, so dull that Hammerhaid dozed off in about the first five minutes. As a result, he wasn’t alerted about his programming *&^%$ till Tuesday.
“There’s no way in the world, that Betty Lou will ever watch, much less appreciate, National Parks,” he thought. But then he remembered that the TV was set up to catch their favorite shows on Monday night.
That made him very concerned about the second episode of “House.”
“If I didn’t get ‘House’ saved Betty Lou is gonna put my butt in a grinder,” he said.
The program ”House” is very important to Betty Lou, chiefly because her mother hates it and refuses to watch it.
“Gawd, I have to kill that programming note for ‘The National Park’ before she figgers it out.”
Trouble is, he’s got to do it in a way that she won’t suspect that he may have killed the season openers for several of her favorite shows.
That won’t be so easy.
‘Cause for the life of himself, each time he programs the TV is an adventure. He clicks on this button, that button, etcetera and so forth, until he usually manages to get the programming change made.
Yep, it takes him a long while to do it. Unfortunately, it doesn’t take Betty Lou long to nuke dinner ... it’s usually 10 minutes or less.
His only chance was to jump on that TV and kill the programming for that PBS show. Yep, he will miss sleeping through all of them, but what’s an hour or two of bliss compared to hours, days or weeks of the wrath of Betty Lou.
So wish him luck. Gawd, if there’s any luck left, maybe he won’t have to blame it on the cat. (Yep, its feeble, but H-haid’s in a panic.)
T-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-that’s r-r-r-r-r-r-right. |
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