[Magdalen] Film puke.

[Jay Weigel]

When our kids were growing up, it was usually the news during meal time.
That made for discussions, sometimes very interesting ones. My kids were
always aware of national and world events, unlike many of their peers. The
way the house we lived in until my daughter was almost through her freshman
year in high school was set up, the TV was in the living room but could be
heard in the dining room, so we didn't so much watch as listen. If we ate
later, the TV was off. After we moved, we had a small TV in the kitchen
where we ate, and the same routine.

On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 3:41 PM, M J [Mike] Logsdon <mjl at ix.netcom.com>
wrote:

> >>>Well, it's a different experience for sure. A shared experience of the
> TV episode rather than direct conversation. I've never had a rule about it
> one way or the other.<<<
>
> Pop's dinner table was never intended to be silent, but it was also a
> place to watch one's mouth.  Luckily for me, he never had a problem with me
> eating in the living room so as to watch TV.
> _________________________________________
> "O perplexed discomposition, O riddling
> distemper, O miserable condition of man!"
> - The Rev Mr John Donne
> (in a not-so-chipper moment)
>