Eating lunch at Pizza Palace the other afternoon (don’t tell my wife), the television went from the Channel 8 noon news to the “Young & the Restless,” or the “Y&R” as they used to say in the cafeteria area of the IUPUI library 25 years ago.

Growing up in Indianapolis, we walked home for lunch during grade school. The “Y&R” would be on the TV when we arrived home, or at least for part of those years. Sometimes it was “As the World Turns,” Mom’s abosulate favorite.

Neither, however, was mypreference. When Mom would allow it (and she generally did for at least a half hour), we’d turn the dial to Channel 4 to check out “Cowboy Bob” as chowed down her Chef Boy-Ar-Dee pizza, chesseburgers and fries or grilled cheese sandwiches and tomato soup. (You can see an old Chef Boy-Ar-Dee pizza in a box commerical at YouTube at this link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hq75_XYFw5A. It’s kind of a hoot. There’s also a cool Muppet chef video there: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jc_UCc8EQcQ&NR=1)

Watching the TV at Pizza Palace, I noted how little things had changed in the past 13 years since Mom deid, and not much since I stopped glancing at the soaps maybe 25 years when I left IUPUI.

Jill was still married to John.

Jack was still conniving, although he seemed a little softer.

Others were still cheating on their spouses and significant others.

And Catherine was still alive? Wow.

Mom probably would have preferred that I had received an update on Bob, Lisa, Nancy and the others on “As the World Turns,” but I didn’t have time to wait for it to come on.

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