My son’s obsessed with remote controls
THERE’S a lot of things going missing from my house at the moment.
On Saturday, me and Mary wasted valuable Battlestar Galactica box set time looking for the remote for the DVD.
Amazingly there isn’t a button on the actual DVD player, which lets you scroll through the menu and pick the episode.
We were at the mercy of the missing remote, which we eventually found the next day. In Jacob’s bed.
Jacob was also behind the two-week loss of the remote control for my stereo. I was on the verge of ordering a new one for £20 when it turned up in his wardrobe.
Benjamin’s usually the culprit for all things remote. He’s obsessed with them. Picking them up and randomly hitting the buttons.
Jacob goes mad when he’s halfway through Mickey Mouse’s Clubhouse only for it to suddenly change to the BBC Parliament channel. I’m surprised how he knows the difference.
And I’ve come to record something on V+, only to be told my free space is “critical” with the hard drive taken up by series links of Geordie Shore and Desperate Scousewives as well as scores of partially-recorded programmes.
But at least when he’s finished with the remote controls he puts them back or at the very worst, dumps it in his toy box. No searching necessary.
The last place we thought of looking for the DVD remote was Jacob’s bed.
It’s not just remotes that get lost.
Currently missing in action are two pairs of shoes, a George Harrison CD and a seven-day pass for the Shields Ferry.
That seven-day pass has long-since run out, but the fact it went missing two days after purchase still rankles.
As for the shoes – I’ve no idea how I’ve lost two pairs of shoes but it has to be kiddie-related.
In all the 35 years I enjoyed without children, I never lost one pair of shoes, so to lose two in less than three years as a father is no coincidence.
I recently spent a frantic morning searching for a missing wallet. I put myself in the mindset of a two-and-a-half-year-old and a 13-month-old, going through all their drawers, their wardrobes and toy baskets. Cots and beds were checked, sofas overturned, but it didn’t turn up.
I knew it would be mislaid somewhere but I couldn’t risk it and had to cancel all my cards. I found it an hour after the last call to the bank in a kitchen cupboard.
The kids are banned from the kitchen, so it was hard to blame it on them direct, but the fact they make me so tired to do such things still makes them culpable.
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