diablo75
February 9th, 2009, 12:48 AM
Okay... have a little bit of a personal dilemma and I don't know exactly what to do.
My girlfriends dad, who has been bed bound due to cancer for several months now, has taken a strong liking to shows like Tool Academy, The City, I Love Money and a few others I don't care to remember. The thing about this is that nobody else in the family knows why he's suddenly started watching this stuff. I've been good to never say anything that might clash with his sensibilities or offend his preferences for TV shows, always hoping he'll offer up the remote or say, "Anybody wanna watch Deadwood?" We bought him the entire series of Deadwood on DVD and up until we started watching it on nights me and my girlfriend would visit him, we would watch the Sopranos, two shows I consider to be of much higher quality.
But I finally couldn't take it anymore. I sent him a little email today saying,
"Can we make tonight a Deadwood night? I don't know how much more MTV or VH1 I can tolerate. :) "
And that was it. Apparently this made him mad (not "mad mad" but he did exclaim "that pisses me off" when he read it). Now I'm on the fence trying to figure out how to fix this mess, because the Weird Express is blowing its whistle and coming in at high speed now. And at the same time, I don't feel sorry for what I said. I like the guy quite a bit, mostly for being a well written author who I always thought had better taste in the shows he liked to watch. I mean, just how do you go from the Sopranos to prime-time MTV, and worse, get mad when someone criticizes it? Really does make me sick to sit there and endure it on the rare nights my girlfriend is off work and we can visit together. But I suppose I should have just continued to shut up, despite the fact that I'll be leaving the country in less than two weeks, and his health isn't going to permit his staying with the living for much longer. Is it wrong of me to casually suggest we (all) spend it watching something better?
My girlfriends dad, who has been bed bound due to cancer for several months now, has taken a strong liking to shows like Tool Academy, The City, I Love Money and a few others I don't care to remember. The thing about this is that nobody else in the family knows why he's suddenly started watching this stuff. I've been good to never say anything that might clash with his sensibilities or offend his preferences for TV shows, always hoping he'll offer up the remote or say, "Anybody wanna watch Deadwood?" We bought him the entire series of Deadwood on DVD and up until we started watching it on nights me and my girlfriend would visit him, we would watch the Sopranos, two shows I consider to be of much higher quality.
But I finally couldn't take it anymore. I sent him a little email today saying,
"Can we make tonight a Deadwood night? I don't know how much more MTV or VH1 I can tolerate. :) "
And that was it. Apparently this made him mad (not "mad mad" but he did exclaim "that pisses me off" when he read it). Now I'm on the fence trying to figure out how to fix this mess, because the Weird Express is blowing its whistle and coming in at high speed now. And at the same time, I don't feel sorry for what I said. I like the guy quite a bit, mostly for being a well written author who I always thought had better taste in the shows he liked to watch. I mean, just how do you go from the Sopranos to prime-time MTV, and worse, get mad when someone criticizes it? Really does make me sick to sit there and endure it on the rare nights my girlfriend is off work and we can visit together. But I suppose I should have just continued to shut up, despite the fact that I'll be leaving the country in less than two weeks, and his health isn't going to permit his staying with the living for much longer. Is it wrong of me to casually suggest we (all) spend it watching something better?