Someday you’ll miss the sound of your family arguing about what to watch.

The noise of a crowded house is easy to mistake for a nuisance while you are in it. Everyone talking over each other about a show nobody fully agrees on is also proof that the people are all in one room, at one hour, with time to waste on each other. Houses empty out slowly and without an announcement. What you will miss is not the argument but the fact that there were enough of you to have one.

Tonight, stay in the room a few minutes longer than you want to. Let somebody else pick. You can choose that small boring evening on purpose.