After years of accumulation, a recent search has just brought back to me how it all started. My Tom and I were doing well enough to be able to do better than just live hand to mouth, and had purchased a nice stereo system for Yon son, and a color television for ourselves, and he suggested we get a VCR as well. Yon son, said, Yeah! That would be cool. But I, having been elected to be in charge of the purse strings, poo-pooed the whole idea. I had many reasonable arguments against it. We didn't need such a thing. That was going just a bit too far.The fact was, I didn't want to go too far into debt. The debate went on and on, until finally, we paid off one of our goodies,and got a special offer from the rent-to-own place, and I finally crumbled.Well, it turned out better than I had thought it would, because I wasn't stuck at home watching wrestling or a ballgame every Saturday night then. I was able to convince Tom that now that he had his VCR, we could tape his programs, and he could take me out to dinner and dancing instead. After that, I sort of warmed up to the convenience of being able to tape my favorite movies, like "Auntie Mame" and "The King And I", instead of hovering over the listings on the t.v. schedule, hoping to catch them.That is how it started, but I am not sure how things got out of hand. It started out small enough. I would buy a new tape when I knew some programs were coming up that I wanted to tape and keep. As for Tom, he had two tapes he kept with his name on them, to tape his stuff over and over.I, on the other hand, had a dozen tapes.Then forty.Then I got saved,and found a wonderful preacher, who I watched on a daily basis, and taped every day, and watched them over and over,when he wasn't on. Before long, I had a hundred tapes, and was being teased about the lady who didn't even want a VCR! For my birthday that year, Tom and Yon son bought me another television set,and another VCR for the kitchen,and as far as I can tell, that is when my collection really took off. This all started, as I said years ago, and now I have an entire room given over to nothing but tapes...(oh, and now, DVDs as well.but that's another story ) I now possess literally hundreds of tapes...I have no idea how many, but I have just gone through weeks of searching for a song, which I finally found,for which I am duly grateful. Whew! What a task! Lord, but I am glad that is over.I look at that room with shelves stacked high, and three deep with tapes, some of which I have purchased commercially. Most of which I bought blank and taped myself. And I wonder. Just when was it I lost all control over this? I didn't even want a VCR, and now, I have more tapes than anyone else in the family.More movies, more preaching tapes, more gospel music tapes,and more writing research tapes than I could possibly have imagined anyone acquiring in a lifetime,and it only took me about twenty years to do it.
Oh, well. I guess I am just living proof that people can change!
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Posted by: Roger | February 03, 2006 at 03:58 AM