I’m beginning to think that my internet time and my TV time shouldn’t overlap. Its hurting my focus, and sometimes leads to embarrassing situations.
Usually these situations are fairly benign. For example, I’ll be watching something on PBS and suddenly get absorbed by the shiny lights on the computer. The next thing I know someone walks into the room and asks me why I’m watching Teletubbies. Normally my answer in those situations is to look up from the computer, rub the drool off of my chin, and smile like an idiot. That tends to be enough of an answer and the person just walks away and leaves me alone.
However, the other night I made that mistake while watching the “Independent Film Channel”. Adult Swim was showing yet another ‘Tim and Eric’ repeat so I started channel surfing and stopped on the first channel that was showing boobies. Thinking it was some lame Showtime flick, I put the remote down and started zoning out on the computer once more.
About 20 minutes later my wife walks into the room and just stops. She yells out “What the FUCK are you watching?”. Not knowing what I was watching myself I look at the screen and my jaw drops. Apparently the movie I was watching had moved on from boobies to gay porn. Not just gay porn… hardcore gay porn. There was more sucking, licking, and fucking going on than I had ever seen on a pay movie, and it was all happening between three guys on the screen. They were arranged in some strange upright daisy chain, and it didn’t look comfortable at all.
Somehow I realized that the smile and the drool just wouldn’t work as a response here. The only thing I could manage to spit out was “Wow… you don’t see that every day” while I tried to find the remote.
The remote took way too long to find. Then the buttons on the remote suddenly didn’t work right.
I was speechless. My wife wasn’t though. “Well, if thats what you’re into I guess I’ll just leave you alone”. I wont be hearing the end of this anytime soon.
The movie’s name was “shortbus”. This is probably not a date movie.
4 responses so far ↓
1 nyag // Jun 10, 2008 at 5:53 am
Dude, I’ve experienced this myself. Some times more embarrassing than others.
Love the blog. I’ll be reading.
2 Clme // Jun 11, 2008 at 9:55 am
Glad to hear it!
Do you do the drool thing too? That seems to only work on children’s programming for some reason.
I suppose I’d probably get a lot more sympathy from people if I wasn’t watching Sesame Street on my laptop when Teletubbies comes on the television..
3 kae // Jun 25, 2008 at 3:52 am
Come on sweetie…you know you love the movie!
4 Words of warning… // Mar 30, 2009 at 9:00 am
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