Remote Control

Every household has one. The person who commandeers the remote control.

In my house, it's me. Partly because I'm a control freak and partly because my wife tends to doze on the couch in the evenings. She curls up with her blanket after the news comes on and then somewhere between the latest episode of HGTV and Rachel Maddow I've lost her. I won the battle for the remote simply by keeping my eyes open. But hey, a win's a win. 

That said, we don't have all kinds of crazy stations so I've never needed to learn what all the buttons do. I stick to the basics. On/Off. Volume up/Volume down. Channel change. It's pretty straightforward. 

But this wasn't always the case. Our old Samsung remote used to have a button labeled "incredible." I still have no idea what it did. I could never bring myself to press it. 

Sometimes it's good to leave a little mystery in your life.

"Why do you press harder on a remote control when you know the battery is dead?" – Steven Wright