I started watching
the X Files but not when it just started way back in 1993. For one
thing, my son was too young to see it.
I think it was about
1996 when we started watching it. And it became a family ritual and
this is how it happened.
At that time his dad
and I were separated. He went to his dad's for the weekend and I
would bring him home Sunday evenings.
It became a routine
that once he was ready for school the next day, we'd watch The X
Files together. It came on late, but there was nothing else on Sunday
night that interested us.
We had a big ol'
television that took up too much space, and it was losing its color
tones. Yes, tube tv! Before digital never mind Smart.
I bought a much
smaller television - 13" - because it had a VHS tape player
built in. And that was $
389.00 back then!
Thanks to my Sears card... Anyway, my son at that time was playing
games hooked up to the television, when he had friends over. Not that
often.
So now we had two
televisions in our cramped space. O.K., so it served to hold the
goldfish bowl, surface duty.
And -- I thought
this was so funny but kept a straight face -- he was kind of hard to
get up in the mornings. Anyone else ever had a kid like that?
So one
early morning I tip-toed around his room (we were crushed into a 500
sq. ft. apartment) with a tape measure calculating whether or not
that big tv would fit in there, and he could hook up his game devices
to it.
Three or four kids
could sit on the bottom bunk and play, if I could cram it in there.
He woke up and
mumbled "what are you doing?" I answered "I'm checking
this out to see if we could fit the tv in here".
He slept on the top
bunk and Whoa! I swear he levitated right up off that bed and arced
through the air, landing on his feet like a cat.
Almost two decades
later, I wonder if he has ever woken up so fast since that day.
Aren't kids great?
During the last two
seasons of The X Files our schedule changed and he was no longer home
on Sunday nights. I stopped watching it. It simply wasn't the same
without him.
But I've done the
necessary binge watch marathons to make up for that. I finished The X
Files Season 9 last night. Because of the new six episodes coming out
soon!
Here's a quick
reminder of events from Season 9:
