When "I Love Lucy" first came on the small screen, I was very young. It was 1949, and I was 5 and a half years old. My parents invited friends over for cocktails, and they'd sit in the living room, drinking, while watching Lucy.
It was Monday night, 9:00 p.m. I was supposed to be in bed then, but I really, REALLY wanted to watch Lucy. One time, I opened my bedroom door a tiny bit, just wide enough so I could peek through, and I put my little stool in front of my door, where I sat and watched. I got a great shot from my door through the hall and through the living room to the TV in the corner.
Unfortunately, my mother got up to go to the bathroom, and passed by my door. She caught me, of course, went and got the wooden paddle, came back to me, laid me on the bed on my tummy, pulled down my pajama bottoms, and beat me with that wooden paddle until I was blistered and screaming in pain.
I was never able to watch Lucy after that.
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