Gone with the Wind(chill reports)

Jon

We all had a surprise this morning, and for Jon it was a nasty shock. Jon went to turn on the TV to get his morning fix of the Local Forecast before breakfast. He flipped to 518 to get the forecast in French; to his horror he was greeted by an onscreen box saying we weren’t authorized to get this channel. Zut alors! Météo Média was part of the digital channel freebie month last month! (We had no idea – we only discovered the channel two weeks ago.)

It was a very teary breakfast. I imagine that after school today Jon will be trying channel 518 in the vain hope it was all a nightmare this morning. He’s already hit all four of denial, anger, bargaining and depression at various times this morning; let’s hope acceptance isn’t far away!

6 thoughts on “Gone with the Wind(chill reports)”

  1. Okay, believe this or not, Reid and Luisa don’t have Tech TV! Or HDTV, Home Depot Television.

  2. Well, I underestimated him–yesterday afternoon Jon was perfectly content with the usual, English-language weather channel; didn’t even try out the French version at all; never even mentioned it. Same with this morning. Now if we could somehow “lose” the regular weather channel to try to break his addiction… 🙂

  4. There’s only two that I know of: The Weather Network (fairly low on the cable, uh, dial), and its French sister station M?t?o M?dia (waaaay up in the cable nosebleed section). I sure hope there’s only two, anyway. If there’s more, DON’T TELL JON.

  5. I’m of two minds about the whole state of affairs. Although I’m desperate to break Jon’s addiction to multi-lingual weather braodcasting, I was fascinated by Jon’s interest in watching something in French that he was roughly familiar with in English. He was seeking out what few words he knew, and he was trying to put the rest in a context.

    Jon seems to really enjoy the concept of a second language. It’s so sad that Sunnyview ceased French classes a few years ago, on the principle of first things first. And there’s no way for us to immerse him–Laura and I only have enough French to make Parisians really snotty at us.

    But I don’t think I’ll go out of my way to cough up the dough to get M?t?o M?dia back.

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