When I was twelve years old, my only living grandpa bought me a subscription to TV Guide and continued renewing it each year until he died. And then my dad took over with payments until he died. And I let the subscription run out.
My mom asked why I hadn’t renewed it. TV is just not all that important to me. It may have been when I was twelve. But each year I become less interested in the TV and programming.
I did enjoy reading TV Guide stories on occasion – but there were oft times that even the articles or the lay out lost my interest.
After I married Roland – there were two of us who really didn’t care if we owned a television and two that would “die without it” and actually there have been months at a time that we have had to do without (especially after even local programming was changed to high definition)
So after a while, I started receiving junk mail from AARP and funeral and retirement homes. I was on all the lists for senior citizens. It was crazy! I figured it must have been all those years of having my name on the TV Guide.
I do appreciate the educational shows that Jenna enjoys. And I have enjoyed the trivia and historical programs that Roland will watch sometimes. I do watch shows right now. But as a whole, I really wouldn’t miss it if it were gone.
If I do ever become interested in watching shows in prime time, they seem to get cancelled (“the Defenders” for example) and so most of the shows I watch are in syndication and it really wouldn’t hurt me if I never saw them again.
I am almost 50. But I still don’t qualify for medicare or retirement. I don’t get near as much junk with Roland as I did when I was living with mom. Most of the time there is a “senior” offer, it has Roland’s name on it. He’s not really a senior citizen either. But he is closer than I am.
