ENOUGH

When is it going to be enough? I am old enough to remember when a TV was considered a piece of furniture, and the astronomical dimensions of a 21" inch screen were unbelievable. Now I need the fingers and toes of friends to calculate the new dimensions of the wide-screens. We have even built rooms to house the shrines. Rock bands are jealous of the speakers and amplifiers we have hooked up to this god as an offering.

At one time the only major debt people had was the purchase of a home. Now, monster sized vehicles take their places behind the homes, and people quickly go into endless debt including paying for these electronic gadgets. I even remember when you could purchase said gadgets, carry them out and place them in your vehicle for the journey home. Now, flat bed 18 wheelers, or at least your monstor-sized vehicles with all the attachments , are needed to form convoys in order to transport the icons to their shrines.

Once, four channels sufficed. Then we thought we died and went to heaven when UHF hit the scene. Now there are hundreds of channels to choose from, and a new word hit the TV vocabulary as we surf the program guide: when asked "anything good on?" the new refrain is "NOTHING" (That is of course, unless you want to watch ME TV & all the shows that were made when when we only had four channels!).