Nov

6

Some things should never change




My husband and youngest son are going on a Boy Scout camp out this weekend. My older son has all region band tryouts tomorrow and a football game to go to tonight, so it looks like I’m going to have some quality alone time. Can’t complain about that :)

When my husband and sons go camping, I rent a chick flick to watch by myself. It has become a tradition that on Friday or Saturday night, when I settle down to watch my movie, I have to call my husband – usually in the middle of a very fun campfire activity – and ask him to tell me, AGAIN, how do you work the dvd player. Yes, I am my mother when it comes to technology. I just very rarely watch TV, never TIVO anything, and the only time I control the remote is when I am home alone. How can I be expected to remember what to do when I only do it a couple times a year??

It’s quite the joke in my family, my kids think its a combination of hysterical and embarrassing. Today my husband decided to break tradition, and he showed me how to do it before he left. He not only showed me, he had me do it. 

So much for tradition.  I guess he really doesn’t want me to interrupt the smores again.

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    2 Responses to “Some things should never change”

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        Robyns Online World on November 7th, 2009 4:02 pm

        That is too funny! I am the SAME way with the media equipment in the living room. There is so much stuff hooked up and different clickers, I just can’t remember all of it. I always have to ask Hubby and Taylor for help if I watch TV out there – they think it is so funny!

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        Some Lucky Dog on November 8th, 2009 1:18 pm

        Ha, this made me laugh! I am so with you on this! When my daughter-in-law and grandson lived with us for a few months I had to have my husband write down how to get a dvd to play step by step so I could do it when he was gone and we wanted to watch Toy Story (which we did a lot!). I’m waiting for the day the whole tv/dvd/recorder mess can just figure itself out or I can talk to it and tell it what I want to do :)