Flo and Friends by Jenny Campbell for May 17, 2022

And it was black and white And a 17" screen. It came on at 5 PM and went off at 10 PM.

…across shag carpeting in the wintertime. Tzap!

…AND … we actually DID watch something on TV

Sister and I were the remote….

And we had to walk six miles to school…..

We didn’t, that was tasked to the rug rats

My first apartment had electric heat so I kept the temp low. I used a blow dryer to warm up the tubes so my old TV would turn on.

For a while we had a very tiny tv with about a 10" screen. It was black & white and we could only pull in 2 channels. My parents put it on the foot of their king size bed and all 6 of us huddled together to watch it. We loved it.

AND to make a phone call! It was hanging on the wall in the kitchen…

I can only remember living close enough to walk to school maybe 3 or 4 times. Most of the time I rode a bus or mom took me.

The rug was bunched up toward that end of the room so it was uphill at least in one direction. Fortunately the shiny tinfoil wrapped around the ‘rabbit ears’ showed the way through all the cigarette smoke. Also, crushing the steel beer cans was much much harder.

I remember when the channels were 3, 5, 8, 19, 43, 55, and UHF

Life was really tough back in the day. /sarcasm

But the good news is we didn’t have to change the channels much since there weren’t that many.

And (as my dad likes to tell me) there were only 2 channels – Cowboys and Indians or Indians and Cowboys.

Nah, my dad used me as the remote control.

Sure did

Not to mention fool with the outside antenna!

And (you might want to sit down for this) we only had 3 channels to watch!