About two weeks before Christmas, we somehow lost the remote to our home theater system, which includes our DVD. Mostly this wasn't a big deal, because we could still play our DVDs, but we couldn't access any features that we had to use the menu to navigate to, because we couldn't get the cursor to move. So if, for example, Nemo pressed the buttons on the theater system, as he is wont to do, and happened to cause the movie to stop and the disc to come out, we couldn't just restart the movie where it left off, we had to go back to the beginning. It was so bad that we watched a movie in our van on Saturday, because we could. Trout got a Scene It! game for Christmas, and she couldn't play it without our remote.
So over the weekend, mostly Sunday, we turned the house inside out looking for the damned remote. We decided someone must have removed it from the house, because we looked in all the key places the kids usually hide the remote: in the storage bins we store the toys in, behind the cushions in the couch, on the stairs to the basement, inside the Pack and Play, inside all the toys it could possibly be hidden inside, under all the furniture, behind the table the TV sits on, in the back of the toilet, under their beds, in everyone's shoes. Everywhere. No remote. So, we did what any normal family would do under the circumstances: we gave up and bought a new remote.
Monday morning, I ordered it directly from the Panasonic website, who, in an extraordinary fit of superb customer service, shipped it Monday. Here's the contest part:
When and where did I find the remote, and which child put it there? Uncle Orca is not permitted to answer, nor is he allowed to give hints as to where it was. Leave your guesses in the comments. Both the most accurate and the most creative will get prizes, your choice of a $20 Amazon gift card or the remote to a Panasonic home theater system.
Have at it. Make me laugh.
Hmmm... obviously it was one of the places I told you to look, but I don't remember what those were, so there's no danger of me knowing based on inside information. I'm actually dying to know. :-)
Posted by: Agincourtdb | January 03, 2008 at 09:22 PM
If your nemo is like my nemo, I'm guessing the bathroom wastebasket.
Maybe that's the secret to my finding my missing watch - I should just buy a new one. That'll make the old one turn up for sure.
Posted by: hokgardner | January 04, 2008 at 12:16 PM
Colonel Mustard in the library with the candlestick... Oh, wait, wrong game :-) My vote is that you found it on New Year's Day under the Christmas tree skirt put there by Sunny, so Santa could watch a movie while he was munching his cookies and milk.
Posted by: Fish-flopper | January 04, 2008 at 03:34 PM
Sadly, if this were MY house, it would be where *I* left it. Yes, I tend to get busy/multitasking and take the remote with me wherever it is I end up. This makes hubby VERY mad when he wants to change the channels, LOL!
My kids also hide it from one another under the couch pillows, so I am guessing it was Little Man...but I am at a loss as to where he put it at the moment.
Posted by: angi | January 04, 2008 at 05:29 PM
Behind the toilet. Under the cushions on the sofa. The bottom of the toy box. The drawer under the stove. Under the bathroom sink.
Am I close with any of those?
Posted by: carmen | January 04, 2008 at 05:39 PM
Found your site from dooce's - just stopped by to say hi.
Was it in the car?
Posted by: ALF | January 05, 2008 at 01:51 PM
In the laundry hamper, tucked inside a pocket of a robe or sweater or something.
Or, if you're like me, it would be on the top shelf of the refrigerator, behind the yogurt, beside the milk jug and next to the pickles, because you were holding it when one of your kids wanted a glass of milk and you carried it with you to the fridge, set it down (inside the fridge) poured the milk and then wandered away forgetting about it.
Not that I have any experience in this or anything....lol.
Posted by: Redneck Mommy | January 05, 2008 at 02:13 PM