So after four missed appointments to fix a cut cable line (the window installers accidentally cut the cable wire when they visited last week to make my bedroom windows more energy efficient) the Time Warner Cable guy really showed up this time. And within the 4 hour window I was given.

All was well until I explained I needed the programs on the Time Warner cable supplied DVR and I was hoping to keep them when he changed out the wires  (A bad experience several months resulted in the full DVR line up being erased when the cable was moved.) and he replied:  “Just Buy a VCRâ€.

Now mind you, I have a Sony DVDirect which is the second most amazing invention (first being DVR) so I do have the programs saved on DVD which were on the DVR but when my daughter wants to watch Classical Baby or Harold and the Purple Crayon before bedtime, it’s easier for her to just go to “listâ€ and select the show instead of getting a DVD and putting it in.

Anyone else find it to just be a little funny for  the cable guy to tell me to just go back to using a VCR when he works for a company trying to bring us into the future with technology created to make the VCR obsolete?

Sure I still have a VCR in my apartment that can be dusted off if need be but it hasn’t been used in years because Natalie doesn’t even have a VHS tape of any of her favorite home videos. And because my TV segments are all saved on DVD and my video rentals arrive in my mailbox on DVD, it’s odd to even think about going back to using a VCR.  (Even my 83 year old grandmother relies on TiVo to record her daily soap operas!)

Thanks Time Warner Cable for starting my Monday off with a laugh.