Hi Mawzy, We must be on the same sleep schedule..."Sleepless in Seattle" time. What is it with the muttering syndrome? I can't understand or hear G most of the time. His words seem to be garbled (is that a word?). I wish he would watch TV, but totally comes unglued if I want to watch it during the day and don't get the commercials muted every time. Drives me nuts trying to cook while muting things every few minutes. He can't stand the weathermen..any of them...he gets very upset when they are on screen...gets up, walks around, leaves the room etc. until the weather segment is over. Weird.
kathi37, my husband is the same about muting the commercials. He doesn't really watch much TV, but if he does and I don't mute the commercials immediately, he leaves the room. He isn't like your husband about weather. In fact, one channel he likes to watch is the weather channel.
One of the first things I learned when visiting my husband's family (in 1956) just after we were married, is how to use the "blab-off" - this is before remote controls but they already had rigged a thing to mute the TV during commercials. And so for oveer 50 years we muted. Now, he LIKES them. Indeed, he'll happily watch a half hour infomercial. What he can NOT stand, though, is people talking over one another (think Robert Altman movie) or fighting. He gets very upset. Changes, changes. He likes ONE of the three weather people. The others he can't stand.
I shouldn't laugh (and I didn't in front of him). I go to some of the "little" gambling places that have sprung up all around the area. Jean just sit and watches. When the machine aren't in use, they have a demo going to entice you. Well, the other day I moved to a different machine and I called to Jean to come with me. He said that he was waiting for the stuff to end on the machine in front of him. He would have been waiting forever. :)