weird kid thoughts

when i was little--maybe 5 or 6--and we lived in the house in town (the wetzel house, with a telephone in every room), i thought the local news people could see me. someone must have made a distinction in my presence between local and national news. it was this that caused me to think that the local news people could see me. so, if, for example, i was taking a bath upstairs and all of the clean clothes were downstairs by the dryer, i would sneak in behind dad's big gold chair, wrapped in a towel if there was any sign of les and gina harding on the screen. those were their names, right? if it was anyone else, i knew they couldn't see me from inside the t.v., but those local news people, you just never knew...