The TV works but the clicker is broken

One of the things about being sick is that you can’t do very much except watch TV.  I sually get a serioius cold and flu this time of year, however, this year it didn’t last quite so long, just a few days, as opposed to weeks.  This is likely because I went and got a flu shot this year.

In past years, I was stuck watching only one channel all day, because the remote on the bedroom TV no longer works.  It’s not the clicker itself, it’s the TV.  Mike even opened it up to try to fix it, but no luck.  So unless I got the energy to drag myself up to change channels, I was stuck with whatever was on when Mike left the house for work, usually FOX-25.  So every day, it would be:  morning news, Mike & Juliet, Judge Alex, Divorce Court, Judge Hatchett, Cristina’s Court, Montel, Tyra, Law & Order, evening news, TMZ, and Malcolm in the Middle.  By then, Mike would come home and change the channel to something else for me.

This was last year.  Now I can actually change the channels with a remote again, ever since we got the digital converter boxes for all of the TVs.  Now we change channels through the converter box, not the TV.  It’s such a little thing that most people take for granted, having a working remote control…but you sure miss it when you don’t have it.  Anyhoo, it was nice to have when I was too sick to get up last week, I could change the channel to soaps or PBS (we get five different channels of PBS now), or whatever else.

Judge shows tend to get old after a while.  There’s always someone suing someone else over damage done in a car accident…why do none of these people ever seem to have car insurance? And they admit to such right in front of the judge. Of course the judge reams them a new one, because car insurance is required by law in all 50 states, I believe. Basically, what is required is for drivers to carry enough insurance to fix the other driver’s car if you cause a wreck. You are only required to carry additional coverage, such as collision, if the vehicle is still being financed.

Heck, half these people who appear on these shows even confess to not having a drivers license!

Judge: Why don’t you have a license?
Defendant: It got took away.
Judge: Why?
Defendant (mumbling): DUI

So here you have these jerks who admit, in court, to a real judge, that they drove without a license, while suspended for getting a DUI. Charming. Oh, and they don’t have insurance, either.

As I said, it gets old. Thank goodness for working clickers and five channels of PBS!

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