Dusty sunbeams streak through the window while you lay on the couch in a blissful half-asleep cocoon. Sometimes during this hazy daze a little voice in your brain politely asks that the TV be turned down or shut right off.
In moments like this there’s something satisfying about keeping as much of your body completely relaxed and perfectly still as possible while awkwardly grabbing the remote with your foot, a rolled up newspaper, or another remote that just happens to be closer.
After you stab at it and coax it across the carpet, you do the deed and let a little smile curl on your face as you fade deeper and deeper into your comfy afternoon nap.
AWESOME!
18 Comments
October 21, 2009 at 12:08 am
Definitely happened to me this afternoon. Used the book I should have been reading for class while I was watching television.
AWESOME.
October 21, 2009 at 12:29 am
Yup. Usually use my leg, stretch it to the max and try to drag the remote back to me. Should have trained my dog to fetch the remote! Lol.
October 21, 2009 at 1:57 am
hahah i always ask my cat to go get me the remote. i know he understands me, but he won’t do it. haha
October 21, 2009 at 9:20 pm
Pet trainers unite! I finally trained my rat terrier “Jay Jay Boy” to fetch the remote……try and guess how many remotes he chewed up before I could catch him.
Jay is a great little boogie boy….and very, very fast!
October 21, 2009 at 12:35 am
I sometimes use one remote to reach the other remote on my bed.
October 21, 2009 at 1:43 am
Mmm, that’s so nice!
October 21, 2009 at 5:23 am
orrrrrrr…
use another object to press “shut down” button on your remote.
either way – AWESOME
October 21, 2009 at 9:49 am
My sister and I used to save the toilet paper rolls or, better yet, the paper towel rolls, or, EVEN better, wrapping paper rolls to make remote retrievers. We were such MacGuyvers.
October 21, 2009 at 11:25 am
Just like Calvin and Hobbes
October 21, 2009 at 12:40 pm
That net you have there in the picture actually looks pretty good for the job. I think I’ll buy the first TV that offers one of those along with purchase for exactly this purpose.
October 21, 2009 at 4:14 pm
I like when you can catch it by one finger or so, and then slowly do the carpet roll of retrieval in order to acquire the tasty remote goodness.
November 18, 2009 at 10:35 pm
tasty remote foodness u make it sound like a big gooey chocolate chip cookie nd i love it
October 21, 2009 at 6:28 pm
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October 21, 2009 at 11:19 pm
I think it’s funny that people will go days without watching tv or will totally change how they watch tv because they have lost the remote!
October 22, 2009 at 4:43 am
Indeed. And I don’t know if the next thing has been on yet, I don’t think it was yet (as I did read all yer posts), and I know it’s wrong to kill, but how awesome is that sensation when you manage to smack the fly (whichever type it is) that’s been bothering you for ages. Not catch it with some paper or whatever, but simply smack it. Makes you feel like Xena.
Amazing how beating such small, nasty, bugging things can make you feel like the king of the world.
“Who’s the mannnnnnnn?” Or, in this case, the woman. :P
October 23, 2009 at 1:52 pm
…yet people have told me that it’s inappropriate to leave salad tongs on the coffee table.
November 6, 2009 at 5:31 am
I’m going to build a remote retrieving device and market it. Millions shall be made! MWAHAHAHAHA!
November 15, 2009 at 11:35 pm
YAA I used to have that exact remote in the picture. That is truly an awesome thing.