He would grab his crocheted-by-Grandma blanket and head downstairs, where he would switch on the television, wait for it to warm up and then crank the dial to Channel 48 as quietly as he could. But on the weekends, they bent the rules and, around 12:45 a.m., nudged him awake. When he was 3, he had taken a fruit-drink commercial too literally - “Hey, how about a nice Hawaiian punch?” ended with a fist to his mother’s face - so his parents decided to limit his television consumption. Most Saturday nights from age 5 to 10, Ahmir Thompson would go to bed at 8 p.m., only to be woken up a few hours later. To hear more audio stories from publications like The New York Times, download Audm for iPhone or Android.
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