all abuzz

Here is one of my favorite Mayor wife stories:

About eleven years ago when Truett was first appointed Mayor of Fort White, a new exciting service was coming to the town. . .cable TV! 

Our small town was all abuzz, ""We're getting cable!  Did you hear?  We're getting cable!"

Well, naturally I got excited.  That meant I, too, would have choices to watch on TV instead of Channel 20, channel 4 and sometimes channel 12 if it wasn't raining.

So one night as Truett and I were preparing for bed time, I said, "Are we getting cable?"

"No," the Mayor said.

"But why not?"  I asked.  "We live in the town too."

Then the Mayor told me how expensive it would be to run the cable lines from Hwy. 47 down our driveway and into our yard.  Thousands and thousands of dollars, to be exact.

"But I'm a citizen of the town!" I blurted.  "And I deserve cable TV just like everybody else."

(Now please don't form a bad judgement of my husband here.  He was thinking of his town.)

Truett then went on to explain that new technology that would soon replace cable and he wanted to wait for the next wave of new-fangled technology.

Needless to say, a one-sided heated discussion about the fairness of this issue took place, untiI I finally gave up and thought that, as a Mayor's wife,I should probably support the fact that I was saving the fair town of Fort White precious dollars, too.  Besides that, I mostly used TV as background noise while I read my books.

I will tell you, however, that at some point I let out a loud, "Humph!" and thought, "And I sleep with the Mayor!"

 

Comments

[tina]

Funny! I remember when that happened!

[Truett]

Actually, it was not to save the town money. The Cable company could not be expected to run 3500 feet of cable to pick up one customer. It would have taken 15 customers to pay the cable company to justify their expense in laying 3500 feet of cable in a reasonable amount of time. The cable company has, with the advent of the new technology, gone out of business.