Not until we carted the sucker home, unboxed it, steadied it on top of an extraordinarily hard-to-put-together TV stand ("Aiiieeeeee, I broke my finger!") did we realize the model was a "Smart TV."
The enclosed manual was no use. Tastefully done in nothing but simple, verbiage-free illustrations (probably to cut down on having to print four languages), I couldn't make heads or tails out of the drawings. Cavemen hieroglyphics. The picture of the two men on the floor next to each other, legs up bicycling, still has me mystified.
Occasionally, a robotic voice blurts, "For volume control, please see online manual." Course I can't figure out how to access the mysterious online manual. And if it's just pictures again, why bother?
It makes no sense whatsoever. At random times, the annoying robot voice hollers out things like, "I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that."
Think you have the answer? Fine. Go confer with my smarty-pants TV. Go on! I'll wait right here...
See what I mean? Stupid TV's smarter than me.
The characters in my new book, Peculiar County, are smarter than me, too. They never waste time watching TV.
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Reminds me of when my son and I were trying to put together the new barbecue. Picture directions too. I could never have figured it out without Andre's help.
ReplyDeleteI am disappointed by your explanation. You clearly convinced me that your thesis is true, but I was counting on figuring out how to get my wife's smart TV to do my taxes this year.
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