What If Sheldon Cooper Was Psychic?

Don’t pretend that you’ve never watched the Big Bang Theory. I can’t imagine there would be many English-speaking adult humans on the planet right now who have not watched so much as one episode of this hit TV show. I say that as an English-speaking adult human who has not had access to television in around eleven years.

I have gone without television numerous times throughout my life but this current eleven-year stretch is the second longest I’ve ever gone without that drug that is more addictive than cocaine or tobacco. I have saved countless thousands of dollars by not subscribing to cable or satellite or any other television provider.

I do have one of those old-fashioned cathode-ray television sets (given to me by someone who felt sorry for me for not having a TV) but I have never hooked it up to any television source. It is, however, hooked up to a dvd player. The TV and dvd player are very good at gathering dust but a few years ago I realized they have another use.

A few years ago I discovered that one can go to one’s nearest library or movie rental store and either borrow or rent an entire series of a TV show and watch it from start to finish without seeing a single commercial. I was like Christopher Columbus pretending and claiming to have discovered a whole new world.