Growing up, I had a Dish satellite, and the two reasons I remember that I had one were that I would come home from and watch Cartoon Network with a bowl of goldfish and a Juicebox, and that my dad hated Dish with a burning passion
Part of the reason my dad hated dish so much was because the Bill kept creeping higher and higher and higher. Now you’d think if the price was going up you’d be getting more channels right? Wrong. My dad ended up losing a lot of channels, and for context, he is an AVID Judge Judy watcher. I mean you could show this guy an episode of Judge Judy – any episode – and he’d tell you how it ended. So you can imagine how pissed he was to find not only was his bill getting higher, but he couldn’t even watch his Judge Judy in peace anymore.
I remember being so disheartened that I could no longer watch Adventure Time and Regular Show when I got home from my long day of 6th grade, but there was a light at the end of the tunnel: DirectTV. I don’t remember much about it, other than, and you’ll never guess it – how much my dad hated that as well. Packages for shows? 80 something bucks for like 6 channels? Outrageous I say! Luckily for my dad, the local news AND Judge Judy were included, so he was content until the bills kept soaring for seemingly no reason, and now we are back to using some off brand satellite that he got at some store. (I believe it was BJs… or maybe home depot… or maybe Costco…) I currently have one of these in my apartment that I never use since I have Netflix, Hulu, and YouTube Premium (you only pay seven bucks with a student account!). But hey, the satellite is nice for when there is a football game I peek into for two seconds before my goldfish brain goes back to YouTube, or when I want to see some award show and watch the comedian bomb for what feels like hours until I then go back to Animal Crossing Lofi on (you guessed it) YouTube.
What I find interesting is that normally, when new technology comes out, you rarely revert back. Would you rather use your current phone, or the phone you had when you were 15? I’m gonna assume you’re choosing your current phone. In my case, my dad tried to jump to the latest and greatest thing, and hated it! Even now, he doesn’t like the idea of several subscriptions, even if it’s cheaper then what he was paying before. I think it goes to show you don’t always have to upgrade, even if its being advertised to you as SO much better then what you have. Moral of the story: Do you! You don’t always need the latest and greatest. Maybe all you need is Judge Judy.
