Comment by phantasmish

My in-laws are like that.

My parents were like that, in a different way. They couldn’t sit in a room without a tv on, even if they had visitors and everyone was talking and not paying attention to the TV. Living room TV was on at least 16 hours a day, just about every day, I bet. So weird. Also had TVs in every bedroom, including rarely-used spare bedrooms. Like they had six TVs in their house at peak. WTF.

(Actually, my in-laws also do the TV thing, or else a laptop playing YouTube trash… plus phones)