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You wouldn’t believe how confused the DirecTV techs are every time they look up my account and go, “…You only have one TV?” What a weird state of affairs, that this is a noteworthy thing.
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buttons-beads-lace said: the idea that everyone at some point gets A Second TV is weird to me too. my parents have only ever had one TV at a time; they don’t buy a new one until the old one breaks. since I moved out I have had either zero TVs or one TV. I haven’t gotten that reaction from cable techs though.
yeah. Well… it probably helps that we get our Internet thru Verizon, but it’s confused a few ISPs who have been like ‘but you could get cable too!’ and they’re always really shocked when I’m like, but, I don’t even own a TV set so I literally wouldn’t use it.
I used to have trouble at work if I told people I didn’t own a TV set. They’d just assume I was saying that to mean that I was Better Than Them. I wound up with a Standard Disclaimer I’d tack on. I don’t have a TV and it’s not like I’m an intellectual I just waste so much time on the Internet and I don’t understand any of the shows and and and. It didn’t matter; people still would go on and on about how terrible TV is and how they admired my commitment (???? no!!!) and then they’d still expect me to know what various shows were about.
Some people literally cannot have a conversation with you if you are not familiar with both current reality TV stars and the sitcoms of Our Youth. Like, they just don’t know how to talk without making constant references to both of these sets of information. Neither of which I have any access points to. I just nodded a lot. One coworker in particular would get offended. It was kind of scary.
(The problem didn’t really go away, I just changed positions at work so now I sit in the back room and don’t talk to anyone, so it never comes up.)
I hate that my folks have TVs in several rooms. It drives me crazy. I have to sit so that I cannot see the television. My mother will put on the game or the news while we’re trying to have a conversation. I can’t function. If the television is on, that’s what we’re doing. Otherwise, we’re having a conversation. Or reading books. Or whatever. (And if we’re having a conversation and I want to read a book, I’ll leave the room. If I’m screwing around online, I’ll sit in a room with conversation, but if I’m trying to write or focus on something, I’ll sit in a room where people aren’t. Having a laptop with battery life is approximately the best thing ever.)
I just. People who use the TV for omnipresent noise blow my mind. I can’t not focus on it if it’s on. And I used to blame my upbringing, but now I know that it’s definitely ADD of some variety. I hate TVs in restaurants too. :( Why are they everywhere???
You wouldn’t believe how confused the DirecTV techs are every time they look up my account and go, “…You only have one TV?” What a weird state of affairs, that this is a noteworthy thing.
and
buttons-beads-lace said: the idea that everyone at some point gets A Second TV is weird to me too. my parents have only ever had one TV at a time; they don’t buy a new one until the old one breaks. since I moved out I have had either zero TVs or one TV. I haven’t gotten that reaction from cable techs though.
yeah. Well… it probably helps that we get our Internet thru Verizon, but it’s confused a few ISPs who have been like ‘but you could get cable too!’ and they’re always really shocked when I’m like, but, I don’t even own a TV set so I literally wouldn’t use it.
I used to have trouble at work if I told people I didn’t own a TV set. They’d just assume I was saying that to mean that I was Better Than Them. I wound up with a Standard Disclaimer I’d tack on. I don’t have a TV and it’s not like I’m an intellectual I just waste so much time on the Internet and I don’t understand any of the shows and and and. It didn’t matter; people still would go on and on about how terrible TV is and how they admired my commitment (???? no!!!) and then they’d still expect me to know what various shows were about.
Some people literally cannot have a conversation with you if you are not familiar with both current reality TV stars and the sitcoms of Our Youth. Like, they just don’t know how to talk without making constant references to both of these sets of information. Neither of which I have any access points to. I just nodded a lot. One coworker in particular would get offended. It was kind of scary.
(The problem didn’t really go away, I just changed positions at work so now I sit in the back room and don’t talk to anyone, so it never comes up.)
I hate that my folks have TVs in several rooms. It drives me crazy. I have to sit so that I cannot see the television. My mother will put on the game or the news while we’re trying to have a conversation. I can’t function. If the television is on, that’s what we’re doing. Otherwise, we’re having a conversation. Or reading books. Or whatever. (And if we’re having a conversation and I want to read a book, I’ll leave the room. If I’m screwing around online, I’ll sit in a room with conversation, but if I’m trying to write or focus on something, I’ll sit in a room where people aren’t. Having a laptop with battery life is approximately the best thing ever.)
I just. People who use the TV for omnipresent noise blow my mind. I can’t not focus on it if it’s on. And I used to blame my upbringing, but now I know that it’s definitely ADD of some variety. I hate TVs in restaurants too. :( Why are they everywhere???
