A while back Sleepless shared a story with me about a time at Ice Cream Man’s cabin. The cabin is equipped with many modern amenities, such as flat screen TVs, heated floors, cable and, my favorite, a Video Cassette Recorder – more commonly known as a VCR.
One evening at the cabin, Little Sleep decided to enjoy a video home system (VHS). Afterwards, she asked Ice Cream Man to ‘fast rewind,’ the tape. Even with a 2-way VHS cassette rewinder, one cannot really fast rewind a VHS. Turns out, the same/reverse is true for DVD.
While watching a movie with Bruiser and her family, there were a few scenes that weren’t appropriate for kids. Thus, Bruiser’s husband would fast forward through the DVD. The first time he did this, we all quickly watched what would have been better for their son to hear and not see.
Being that I had already seen the film and the ineffectiveness of the DVD fast forward, when another inappropriate scene was about to start I made a suggestion, “You may want to ‘stop and play’ on this one; instead of just quickly showing all of us what we didn’t want him to see. One more reason I love the VHS. If I don’t want someone to see something I just fast forward or fast rewind and all they get to see is black lines across the screens. Beautiful black lines. Oh well, just keep fast forwarding and, later, when he’s asleep, we can fast rewind.”