and your secret is safe here. I have threatened about getting rid of cable but my most favorite show is on Lifetime...LOL so it would hurt me, as well. He knows this, also, and I am sure has just started to ignore my 'rants'. Although, I did get rid of the house phone and he had to go get a Cell Phone (yep, my son did NOT have one! even though I did :D). It was only a year and a couple months, since I started threatening the phone being gone...