A Touching Thing

When I sit on my couch, I can look to my left and see the computer, and I can look to the right and see the tv. In the evenings, while I’m on the couch, Sam is usually on the computer, with headphones on, watching anything from Disney cartoons to Loony Tunes to video game run-throughs.

I’m watching tv last night and Sam is watching his videos and a commercial comes on the TV. It’s a Geico Insurance commercial, the one where Kenny Rogers is sitting around playing cards and annoying the others by singing “The Gambler”.

“That’s a nice song”, Sam says from the other side of the room. He was turned around in his chair, facing the tv, with his headphone half off. “He’s a good singer”, he says.

“Yeah? You like that song?” I ask. And I tell him who it is and what the song was and Sam says, “Hmm, I might look that up.” But he goes upstairs and takes his shower.

A little while later, Sam’s back downstairs, in his bathrobe, back on the computer, eating some grapes. And I look over and I see that he’s watching “The Gambler” music video by Kenny Rogers and he’s kind of tapping his foot along with it as he’s popping grapes in his mouth. A few minutes later, I glance over again and I see he’s watching another Kenny Rogers video. A few minutes more go by and I hear Sam say, “Huh, I guess Kenny Rogers is retiring.”

I tell Sam that I had heard the same thing too, and I ask him where he heard it. Sam points at the computer and says, “I watched this video… and he said a touching thing.”

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Epilogue

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