The Television Learning Curve

The learning curve often is strewn with sticky notes, legal pad pages filled with sentence fragments, and wads of crumpled false-starts.

Each of us seems to have a blind spot on the learning curve.

Me?  You could teach me to both recall and properly tell the very same joke for several hours.  You could include instructive videos, a pop quiz, and two practice sessions.  But in two weeks, if you asked me to tell the joke, I would be shooting blanks.

Jokes don’t stick to me.

My sister, Deb, has an equivalent struggle when it comes to the operation of a smart television with more than one input.

Yesterday, she and my brother-in-law came out to my house so I could give her a rundown on how to operate our new television.  She will be watching the house and caring for my 20 pounds of housecat while that girl and I travel to Aruba for a stay on the island. 

Things did not go exceptionally well at first.  At one point, I had to stop and hug my brother-in-law…just because.  After a few practice sessions and a series of notes, my sister managed to access the Blu-ray player, the sound bar, Netflix, and the satellite feed we use out here in the hinterlands.

I will admit, our television control is a bit daunting.  Four remotes are required for all that she wants to do.  I have posted a photograph of the methodology my sister finally developed for managing the television.

I think she has this!

-- Mitchell Hegman