It’s Shark Week!
Woman in the Middle | August 14, 2014There is something wrong in my world. It is Shark Week and I am not on vacation.
Let me explain. When Hubby and I moved into our previous home a year and a half after we married, cable was not even available. We had to get our TV signal though an antenna. When cable came to our street a few years later we had begun our family and were very low on money. When offered the choice of free TV or paid TV, we went with free. We watched plenty of TV on our lovely free signal and could not justify in any way paying for cable just so we could sit and watch even more TV.
Most hotel and motel rooms have at least some limited amount of cable TV available, which aways seems to include the Discovery Channel. When we went on vacation, usually during the summer, the girls got the treat of watching cable TV in the hotel room. And, it seemed like, every year we went on vacation during the Discovery Channel’s Shark Week. Such disappointment every vacation as we discovered that is was all sharks all the time on the channel that every hotel room provided! No shows about cute doggies or kitties, or about beautiful giraffes or interesting kangaroos. Just lots of teeth and blood.
This year the publicity for Shark Week seems to be particularly widespread. Even the funny pages are getting into the act with several comic strips mentioning shark week in their story lines. And every time we see any of that, Hubby and I wonder why we aren’t on vacation!
I think you should be asking Blackie that question.
No kidding!!!