I Want My MTV---back.

 MTV, the music channel of the day. The older two were in college and  Danny, at about 11 years old, really wanted MTV. Finally, to his delight, I subscribed to it.It was in the fall and David had come home from Syracuse for vacation and he brought his small TV with him, connected it, and watched it while he was home, and then packed it up and brought it back to college. 

   So Danny had the opportunity to watch MTV for only several weeks when it came to an abrupt end. I had driven Danny to a soccer game or practice and when we came back home, the MTV channel was no longer.

  The fall weather had gotten rather chilly, and on this day our septic tank had backed up. I think there were 2 parts to the outlet from basement to tank and one of  the  sections had telescoped into the other. The ground had to be dug up and Dave was the one who had to do it, an unpleasant task by all accounts.

   Dave was outside digging on this raw and rather miserable day when a guy from our TV company, Time Warner or whatever it was before Spectrum, pulled up and approached him on the side of the house.  Back then things were different, and it seems the customer paid per how many  TV's were installed per house. The TV company guy said his sensor detected another tv set in our house, and he would need to go into the basement to inspect the connection. Dave was not about to get involved in that, not at this time. When he said no, the guy said then he would need  to get the service (Yikes, that meant MTV) disconnected.

  Dave, still involved in the digging process,  said, "I'll save you the trouble, and, shovel in hand, smacked the outside box, severing the connection. 

 We arrived shortly after, and Dave recounted the tale. No MTV. Danny was absolutely horrified at the loss of what he had so recently gained. Horrors!!!

   All was not lost though. When I called the provider, right away, I said I wanted to reconnect the service. The person I spoke to said they wanted it just as much as I did. So a happy ending with the moral, "Don't challenge a man with a shovel in his hand, especially if it's full of s**t.