In which our intrepid hero visits one of his frequent crossroads…
I have a long history with the television show “I Love Lucy.” In fact, when I was three or four years old, “I Love Lucy” taught me a valuable lesson. Sometime in 1969 or 1970 I was watching an episode of “I Love Lucy” and my mother walked into the room and announced that the family was going somewhere. She turned off the television and we got into the car and left (I have no idea what the destination was). When we returned, some time later, I turned the television on so that I could finish watching “I Love Lucy.” But it wasn’t on! That was when I discovered that when you turned the television off, the shows on TV did not stop playing but continued while you were not around!