We've been needing a new TV for a while now. Funny that I use the word "need." I really don't "need" a new TV. I "need" food and shelter. But whatever. I don't know what exactly I did before Grey's Anatomy. So, G and I have been shopping around, which basically means we've been going to Walmart once a week for our regular trip and veering our shopping cart into the electronics department to ogle at the televisions and mumble to each other about how we really don't need one of those new LCD slash HD slash ABCDEFG TVs but that we do need a 32" and definitely not a 31". There has always been one section of televisions that were "normal" so to speak that weren't LCD HD blah blah blah and were in our price range of about $200. I mean, really...all we want to do is watch TV...not cook a turkey with the damn thing.
We haven't actually bought a TV so far because neither one of us would actually be able to bring the stupid thing home. G had his back surgery, and I'm in no shape to lift a 200 pound television and bring it in from the car and set it up in the living room all by myself. Yet, every week...without fail...we keep looking. This week, however, was a different experience altogether. We made our usual rounds through the toothpaste and cat litter aisle and cut down past the toys toward the electronics. Ahh...gotta love creatures of habit.
Usually, I can spot the "normal" TVs right away. I can see them when we round the corner and pass the light bulbs and digital cameras. What I saw today made me screech my shopping cart to a halt and nudge G with my elbow. He gasped with astonishment. "What the hell?!?" All the normal TVs were replaced with LCD HD Plasma TVs. And the smallest one was 42". WE HAD WAITED TOO LONG!!!
We tried to look as calm as possible as we searched the entire electronics department, but to our utter disbelief there was not a SINGLE "normal" television to be found. After about 10 minutes we found ourselves...shoulders slumped...standing in front of the cheapest of the LCD HD 32" TVs...........$558. *sigh* We better find someone who can carry a television for us pretty quick before the only ones available are 70 inches and two thousand bucks.
I mean...I really do need to watch Grey's Anatomy though.
June 17, 2008
Where Have All The Normal TVs Gone?!?
Posted by Mare at 1:15 AM
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5 comments:
LOL! Your posts always crack me up I am glad you are back to blogging! I actually must say being in the "industry" thats a heck of a price for an LCD and we gasp at the price of that here in my world because we just can't compete with Walmart!! :)
LOL that's too funny. Just break down and buy an LCD, they are awesome! ;) Once you go 'flat' you'll never go back! lol
That's funny, we have been there!!! I'm sad I missed you while I was there. Maybe around Christmas. I know the holidays are busier and it may not work then either, but we will work something out. I think I will be in Birmingham longer then, so that will help. Miss you!!
Oh... Hayden emailed me and said his mom found your year book in a closet at there house. He was making fun of me cuz he said I wrote like 4 pages in the back to you. I told him I wanted to know what I wrote cuz I am sure it is funny now. Anyway, he wanted to know if you want it. Just let me know and I will tell him.
ooh we love our plasma. flat screen in the way to go.
I love it! Please blog about cell phones.
I just want a phone that wants to be a phone. Not a super detective, photo, movie capturing, can opening device of the century...just a phone that wants to be a phone.
Kind of like, a TV that just wants to be a TV.
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