The gift of Television

About 2 months ago my roommate and I cut the cable cord. We turned in our cable box, put Mr. TiVo in the closet and started pocketing $126 a month. Instead of sitting in front of a box every night, we now indulge ourselves in NPR, Netflixs, and conversation. Man how the world has changed! I didn't have TV all through college and we got along just fine, homework ate up my evenings and we had beer for entertainment!

Since college though, TV has come to fill my evenings and conversations. The lunch room at work is filled with TV talk, American Idol, Desperate Housewives, Dance Wars, we even watch CNN while we eat. But since I no longer have TV I sit quietly and offer little tidd-bits of TV news I've read in the paper.
I've come to enjoy it, my coworkers, however, worry about my sanity and roll their eyes when I have to remind them I don't have TV when they ask me if I saw Dance Wars last night.

Thus came the pressure to just plug the TV back in and watch basic cable, mostly so I could converese with the outside world, because apparently TV plays a big part. So we gave that a try, only to find that we have 70 crystal clear cable channels just waiting for us in the TV. I'm not sure if there is something wrong or what, but we have TV! But not only do we have TV, we have FREE cable!
So do I give in and turn on the box or just pretend we don't have it anymore??