Wobbly picture? Do not adjust your set...
When a friend walked into a party wearing a top with a loud and pronounced zigzag pattern, I suggested that perhaps she needed to adjust her horizontal hold. Now, I'm not saying this was a tumbleweed-across-the-room moment exactly, but several people did look at me very blankly. Clearly you need to be of a certain age for the concept of adjusting your set to mean anything. And a quip to my kids about one of their movies, where the picture seemed to jump all over the place, that perhaps the tracking needed adjusting was met with a similar silence. The rule in our house seems to be that if daddy appears to be talking nonsense, just ignore him and hopefully he'll go away. Also just recently I was reminiscing to a youth who seemed permanently tethered to his computer about how when I started work back in '88, one of the perks of the job was the fact that I got the electric typewriter. And this was back in the days when a pink typewriter was one of the must-have Christmas presents for every young girl. The youth, however, was neither impressed, amused or, it has to be said, interested.
