Hello fellow writer. Happy Account Anniversary! This is a funny, yet still fresh for you childhood memory. Why not believe the warning emanating from a television? It had to be true, or why say such a thing, right? I agree with you. Who wished to be responsible for blowing up that television and the house it resides in? Why take that conceivable risk. They sure had some great programs and cartoons then. I remember Top Cat and have always wondered why it was never available as a nostalgia type show to re-view. Plenty of other cartoons can be found and rediscovered. I am laughing at that early warning re the set could blind you if you sat too close. How many parents tried that with their TV obsessed offspring? Watching it was a ritual, a normal routine. Your running to the bus stop ahead of your little sister is believable and something kids I'm sure still do. Keep up. That loud boom must have been quite the shock. Of course, you feared that the worst had happened. Super sonic sound barrier breaking jet? That was unexpected. I like the memories you have shared of your childhood. Thanks for permitting me to read your work. It has been my pleasure.