Daytime Television

My roommate currently is an elderly lady, who loves dateline and Dr. Oz and daytime soap operas and all of that stuff.

And if you like those things, more power to you. I do not, and I'm forced to stay away from the house on the weekends when I don't work because I cannot stand anything about the TV shows she watches. I'm introverted, and my job is fairly stressful (which is what everyone thinks about their own job, I'll admit) but I cannot relax in the house on the weekend because she watches those awful shows, and she has the volume up loud because she's old.

For the sake of my rooming situation, I let her.

And to be honest, when I'm desperate for a day on the weekends to relax and lounge about in my pajamas without Dr. Oz lecturing me about miracle vitamins and my colon and all manner of things I don't need, I change the input source on the TV so that she thinks the TV is broken, and then I "fix" it at the end of the day.

Yes, I'm aware, I'm a horrible person.

Also, for those of you frustrated with the TV choices of your friends, this is an easy way to solve that problem (provided your friends have absolutely no knowledge on how TVs work)