The television is often on in our house. Rather, multiple televisions are often on in our house.
But rarely is anyone doing what for much of my life I would have described as ‘watching TV’.
It was much simpler back in the day, when for years I was actually the remote control. I can still remember the ‘thunk, thunk’ sound as you went around the dial, waiting for my parents to decide on a program.
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