Confirmation of something I've often observed

[misanthrope]

36. I get a weekly in-home infusion therapy

My nurse spends all day, every week, going home to home to infuse various medications. She said I am about the only patient she sees who never has the TV on during her visit. For most all of them, it is on all the time. She didn't specify as to the nature of the programming, just to its omnipresence. I find it distracting and obtrusive unless there is some specific programming I want to watch.

My wife, however, is like the people you describe. If she goes into a room and there's a TV that isn't turned on, she reflexively wants it on. Always on, always loud.

We once dropped in on some old friends in the PNW and afterward she said thought they were "addicted" to marijuana. Her reasoning as she listed it was that they were wake-n-bakers who indulged first thing in the morning. When they came in from somewhere else, the first thing they did was smoke pot. She said they even chose sitting around the house getting stoned over going out and indulging in other activities, and that we often got behind schedule waiting for them to indulge. Ironically, the exact same could be said for her relationship with TV.