Life with Johnny!

Even beyond the grave Orville Redenbacher has a weird sense of humour.  Just last week we bought ourselves a microwave, an appliance that I’ve done without for quite some time.  Our original microwave died a complicated death years ago…it’s part of a very fancy built in wall stove/oven unit that’s also extremely expensive.  Although defunct now, it’s carcass remains on display in our kitchen, an electromagnetic wave mausoleum, as it also houses the controls of it’s counterpart oven….til death, did not do them part..now it’s like a parasitic twin on the shoulder of our oven…I think Kahlil Gibran wrote a lovely poem about this at one time….back to Orville…well aside from warming my many cups of green tea that I make a day (which are then promptly forgotten on some counter) we thought we would try out some microwave popcorn….well our good friend Orville has included a free dvd inside every box of Smartpop sold and on each of these discs includes 5 dramatic episodes from 5 top? shows like House, Law and Order, Law and Order Criminal intent, Rockford Files and Murder, she wrote….so with much anticipation Johnny and I decide that our evening’s entertainment would be to curl up on the couch in front of the fire and watch the episode of the Rockford Files…hey, who raised in the 70’s can resist seeing Rockfish, Angel or Rocky one more time?….the only thing more perfect would be a follow-up episode of Mannix…(it was always so reassuring to me to see without fail that both would be clubbed on the head unconscious every episode)..so we watch and it’s the episode where the mob puts a hit on Rocky..very exciting..and now they’ve found his buddy’s body in a crate down on the docks and Rocky clubs Jimmy on the head with a frying pan and Detective Dennis Becker has dragged them into his office and……to be continued!!!!……blink….blink…rub eyes……whaaaaaaat, you’ve got to be joking….not only are we watching an episode from a show that happened some 3o years ago but those bastards at OR give us a to be continued episode?…hardy hardy haha…something tells me that wherever Mr. R is, perhaps it’s warm enough to make popcorn there.