8.01.2007

A Lack of Crumbs

So, it's 12:40 last night and Inkblot is on the couch watching Mad About You (the episode where Mabel is allergic to Murry) and she's all relaxed and ready for bed as soon as the show ends when suddenly the TV goes black and then the screen goes all fuzzy. (Snow!) Inkblot waits, hoping it will turn back on. When it doesn't, she flips to another channel to find something else to watch, but... NOTHING is on the correct channel!! Inkblot is flipping through all her favorites (TLC, HGTV, Food Network, even Disney!) but none of them are there!! Where did all her shows go?! Finally, after deciding to go through each channel starting at 2, she finds the TV Guide channel!! Success! She waits for it to scroll to Mad About You, then presses the corresponding numbers, then nothing. The screen is black. Then fuzzy. (Snow!) Inkblot was incredibly frusterated. Apparently, the cable company decided to switch the channels all around at 12:40 at night. Not 12:30 mind you, not 1:00, not even 12:45!! 12:40. What an interesting time... was 12:20 taken? How about 12:50? And Inkblot read nothing about it in the newspaper, there is no list of the new channels floating around anywhere in the paper or on the internet. Inkblot would just like to remind everyone of some of the simple rules of life... round numbers (like 12:00 or August 1st instead of July 31st), a little notice on things (a short blurb in the only local newspaper we have), and a bit of readily available information (a posting of the channels in the paper and on the internet as well as the correct channels listed on the TV Guide channel). Now was that really all that hard? Much love,
Inkblot

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