One day your grandchildren will look at their parents and say, “You mean when you were a kid, on TV, y’all had only 375 channels?”

And our children will tell them that, yes, those were hard times, even with DVRs, DVDs, and cell phones. Because we also had to deal with Kim Kardashian and reality television.

Let me tell you about reality television. It’s 1965 and your dad says, “Hey, while you’re up, change the channel?” And of course you’re NOT up, you are on the floor playing with Tinker Toys, but you get up and change the black-and-white TV — with your hand on a knob that’s hooked to the TV, as unbelievable as that might seem to the modern TV watcher — because you are a human remote control. The good side of this scenario, played out daily in millions of one-TV-set homes back then, is that there are only two other options in the Three-Channel-TV World of 1965. So you won’t be standing there long. Unless the reception is poorer than usual and you have to keep adjusting the rabbit ears.

That’s reality television.

Today I am an old-school cable guy with the Basic lineup and the HD Tier. (That HD is the best TV invention since Paul Lynde on “Hollywood Squares.”) So I watch only about four of the 50 channels I get, and one of them is The Bachelorette Channel, which unfortunately I’ve gotten sucked into watching again this season, although I can’t take it anymore because the bachelorette always looks constipated, all pouty lipped and whatnot, and guys say things to her like, “I like you because you’re a woman with a plan,” as if going on national television to choose a husband out of 25 random guys is a “plan.” Custer had “a plan” too.

But I stray there. I think the point I’m trying to make is that today’s children, when it comes to choices and waiting, are spoiled rotten. Maybe we all are.

A guy once described life as some good times, some bad times, and a whole lot of waiting in between.

Unless you hit it just right, you still have to wait in the drive-thru line or at the “convenience” store.

Life should come with a warning label: Waiting Required.

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