After finding Nickelodeon on cable, she put the remote on top of the entertainment center where he couldn’t reach it and returned to her chores. His mother had called the cable company on Tuesday afternoon and added the Nickelodeon channel on a trial basis until the end of the month – which was only a week away. By Saturday, she knew he’d have lost any interest in watching TV and there wasn’t any point in wasting money.
Thomas sat on the carpet in front of the TV and watched an episode of “Tiny Toons”. The storyline wasn’t so bad for a Kids’ show, he decided. There were enough innuendo and inside jokes from the entertainment industry buried in the cartoon’s dialog to keep his adult mind occupied and diverted from his problems.