Case And Point
Life Without TV
When my family’s only television set went to the repair shop the other day, my parents, my sister, and I thought we would have a terrible week. How could we get through the long evenings in such a quite house? What would it be like without all the shows to keep us company? We soon realized, though, that living without television for a while was a stroke of good fortune. It became easy for us to enjoy some activities alone, to complete some postponed chores, and to spend some rewarding time with each other and friends.
First of all, with no television to compete for our time, we had plenty of time for personal interests. We all read more that week than we had read during the last six months before. One thing stayed the same though; mom had to keep up with the latest Lindsay Lohan, and Paris Hilton news, in the tabloids. Dad and I kept pretty much to Steven King novels, our favorite would have to been, Firestarter, because of the storytelling, and in the end, the little girl gets away from the bad guys. We each enjoyed some hobbies we had ignored for ages. My brother and I found our baseball cards that had been hiding since we were about seven years old. To our surprise we had cards that were valuable. I had a Ken Griffey Jr. rookie card, and he had a Nolan Ryan, both worth
over five hundred dollars. In addition, my sister and I both stopped procrastinating on our homework. I had a D in history, and then in a short week’s time, I made up all my short story essay homework. My sister wrote her senior thesis on the effect of Adolph Hitler on modern society, and made and outstanding grade of 97.
Second, we did chores that had been hanging over our heads for too long. There were jobs around the house that needed attention for some time. For instance the bathroom floor looked like you could catch botchelism from just walking across it; so we washed and waxed all the floors in the house, and we shampooed the...
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