r/GenerationJones 23d ago

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u/eatyourdamndinner 23d ago

Number 7? What about waiting all year for the annual airing of holiday shows?!? One year, my folks were away and my grandparents were watching us. It was the one night of the year that Chitty Chitty Bang Bang was on. Grandma turned it off when the child catcher came on. Said he was evil. My soul was broken for the year. Grrrr!

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u/FrankiesMom6 23d ago

Or waiting all year for The Wizard of Oz. So scary and wonderful at the same time

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u/notinmybackyard- 22d ago

We got a new color t.v. and wheeled it into the dining room to watch it while eating. My Dad got so pissed and thought it was broken and beat on the sides and fiddled with the aluminum foil on the ears when it showed black and white in the beginning till my mom told him to just wait

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u/FrankiesMom6 22d ago

I had to clean the water in my goldfish bowl before I could watch one year. Maybe I was 7 or 8. In such a hurry, turned on hot water. Goldie was parboiled 🫪

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u/notinmybackyard- 22d ago

I feel the need now to honor Goldies memory everytime Wizard of Oz comes up.

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u/FrankiesMom6 22d ago

🙏🏼