2004 Soap Box Archives

Television 04/05/04

I never watched television until I was about 15 years old and when I did I went stone crazy over it. I would watch anything and I mean anything. Variety shows, soap operas, musical shows, news shows, heck I’d even watch the test pattern for a few minutes once in a while.

Of course there was only one station but I was faithful to watch whatever they programmed.

In later years when I went on the road playing clubs I would sleep until sometime in the afternoon and grew to hate soap operas since that was about all that was on at that time of the day.

Of course I’d work at night and missed the primetime stuff. Hit shows would come on, run their course and go off the air without me ever seeing them.

It’s funny how time changes things. Now I sit here with 200 channels of satellite and sometimes can’t find anything that I want to watch. The movies are either dull or too racy for me, the news gets repeated over and over and till this day I still can’t stomach soaps.

Now don’t get me wrong, I still love television. I’ve been known to watch two football games at the same time and I enjoy baseball. I don’t get into basketball until along about March Madness and there’s the occasional movie or musical show I like but NASCAR only comes on once a week and the pickings get pretty slim in between times.

I have never watched Survivor or The Bachelor and I’ve never seen Donald Trump fire anybody and I never understood Seinfeld. Maybe it’s a generation gap thing.

And another thing that bothers me is that it seems that almost everything I want to see is on television at the same time. On Sunday
afternoons the Braves will be playing, there’s a golf tournament and a NASCAR race all showing simultaneously. I’m real handy with the remote control.

Hazel likes the cooking and decorating shows and I’d just as soon watch paint dry and I’d rather shovel out a horse stall as to watch a sitcom.

I’m sick of Scott Peterson and Coby Bryant and Michael Jackson,
and if I see Audrey Seiler walk out of her apartment one more time I may just throw something at the TV.

And just think, we have the Presidential campaigns to look forward to this year. We can find out how many ways you can call somebody a low down dirty rascal. The Democrat and Republican conventions are about as much fun as third grade math.

Well cheer up Charlie, the NFL season is just a few months away.
Monday night football, Thursday night football, Sunday afternoon football, Sunday night football, not to mention all the college games.

In the meantime, anyone for fishing?

Pray for our troops.

What do you think?

God Bless America

Charlie Daniels

 

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