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Remote

Problems

By Kate Hofstetter

There was a post on social media the Blu-Ray DVD player. It’s great! Popcorn
other day that said: and chips have become standard staples. If it
weren’t for constantly looking for remotes and
“People don’t realize I’m as old
vacuuming up crumbs, we wouldn’t get any
as I am until they hear me stand up.”
exercise at all.
Pete and I can
We have two
identify with that
remotes: one for the TV,
saying. He groans when
and the other for the DVD.
he stands up, because
Every night following the
he’s got a bum knee from
six o’clock news, we start
hitting it on the bed
streaming the next episode
frame (it’s a bone bruise,
in whichever series we’re
he was told). For my
currently watching. Or, we
part, I think I’ve put on a
scan the vast inventory on
few pounds. I’m not sure,
Prime and Netflix, looking
because I’m scared to weigh
for something with more
myself. But my jeans are
than a two-star rating that we haven’t already
tighter, and standing up is easier when I make
seen.
guttural sounds; the same holds true when I
bend in half to trim my toe nails. We’ve burned through a lot of series,
most notably: Breaking Bad, The Walking
Thanks to Covid-19, we haven’t been
Dead, Peaky Blinders, The Ozarks, Blue
to our gym in over a year, and we’re not going
Bloods, and every cop show, detective show,
back until the majority of the population
and spy series produced in the USA and
have been vaccinated. Who wants to catch
Great Britain since Murder She Wrote and
a life-threatening disease from exercising?
The Man From Uncle.
Besides skipping the gym, we bought four
pieces of reclining furniture so we can get The TV remote is gray and white, and
good and comfortable while binge-watching much larger than the Blu-Ray remote, which
made-for-Prime series or old movies. We is black. We do not know how to operate
stream all of this ad-free stuff through a either device without its respective remote.

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