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TV Remote

Kitsune

Does anyone else have specific places for items to be stored and find it really frustrating when other people in their household don’t put things back in the specific place and as a consequence of that the item gets lost?

So our TV remote lives in a little slot between some books on the top shelf of one of my bookcases in our lounge. Except today it isn’t there! My husband has misplaced it, again!!! And he’s at work so I can’t get him to locate it. This annoys me on so many levels. Firstly, it’s half term and I could really use the TV as a back up to occupy the children. Secondly, if he just put it back where it goes after he’s used it then it wouldn’t get lost! Thirdly, he is a repeat offender of losing the TV remote, previous places that it has eventually been found include the kitchen, our bedroom and the garage, I simply do not get the logic of taking the TV remote to those places, just simply leave it where it belongs and all will be well! 

Rant over!

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  • OMG so many anecdotes come flooding back!

    I remember once completely losing my cool when we sat down to watch a DVD and couldn't find the remote! Bought a spare from eBay, then the original tuned up! We still have the spare a decade later, haven't watched a DVD in about 7 years and the DVD player has just gone off with the original remote to UNI with younger stepchild.

    Elder step-daughter once spent a month or two watching her bedroom TV being able to see only 25% of the screen around the edges of a modal dialogue box asking for a re-tune that could only be dismissed via the remote which, quelle surprise, she had lost and couldn't be arsed to look for!

    Every night one of the kids would be lolling on the sofa with the remote sliding inexorably slowly towards the edge of the seat cushion, completely out of their consciousness (but driving me mad if I saw it) only to clatter loudly onto our laminate floor some indeterminable time later.

    Most of the remotes that survived the "children years" have no battery box cover. Those that needed the cover to hold the batteries *in place* are covered in years of sellotape fragments and sellotape glue.

  • in reply to I'm done with Christmas Cards

    weirdly my children never lose the remote, only my husband! Perhaps I should ban him from using it and hide it from him Slight smile

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