it's all about the packaging

Soo...about 6 months ago a guy came rapping at my door. He says he was with Verizon signing people up for Fios TV, the cable-like service our phone company was now offering. He offered us this great package deal. We initially said, "no thanks". Who wants to deal with the hassle of switching cable services and then what if there are lot of glitches with this "new service"???. We didn't want to be guinea pigs to a new technology. It was fiber optic video service.

Alas, the man offered us a free flat screen Television to switch. FREE!!! DING! we were sold.

So...we switched...a couple dozen calls, email inquiries later, no TV. They had a back order. Duh! I could imagine having to ship thousands of FREE TVs across their various markets.

I was bummed when an automated caller called my house to tell me of the "back order" and tell me to expect my tv at the END OF JULY!!! NOOOO!!!

You see, I had cleared out our old 19 inch TV out a TV Cabinet/hutch in the Guest Bedroom. That TV, with all its junk in its trunk, would not pass the litmus test in this digital world. ha!

Imagine my surprise when our TV came earlier!! woo hoo!!! Tuesday to be exact. Hmmm. the box was peculiarly "smaller" than I expected. hmmmm.

It did look smaller out the box too, albeit shiny and new and flat and thin. Ahhh technology.but when I mounted it in the large space I had reserved for it........somehow, the shine turned a tad bid duller. whop whop whooooop!

whatev man, a free tv is a free TV. THANKS VERIZON FIOS!!!