Above is a photo of an old remote I had here at the house
When I wrote about my 3 days (and I left off the day one activities here before I left as well) I'd forgotten about some humorous things that happened, such as:
When I got settled into my motel room last Thursday after singing with my sister, I turned on the TV in the room.
No matter where I went, the Closed Captioning was on screen, AND it was reading it aloud to me!!!
A MOST annoying situation.
I briefly looked around the remote, but seeing no controls for such as that, I took me and the remote to the office.
I said "My TV is reading stuff aloud, can you tell me what to do to stop that please?"
She laughed and said "No, but I'll come and see if we can figure it out".
So she put a sign on the desk saying "Be Right Back" and we went to my room.
She too looked at the remote, but said it is probably something with the TV.
Now I don't know about you, but I have a sublime dislike of trying to operate those controls, first I can't see them, second you go to menu, then you have to use the volume up/down and/or the Channel up/down buttons to move through the options.
Anyway, she got the closed caption turned off, and that seemed to have solved it, until she left.
When the movie came back, it was still reading something, telling me what was happening.
So I began looking and pushing buttons on the remote, Lo and Behold! The button on the remote I have circled turned "Descriptive Video" on and off.
Who knew?
I took the remote and went back to the office, and when she got free, I said "I'm gonna make your day"
I showed her the button and said "now you know" we both got a good laugh from that.
Later, I had some unexpected "Entertainment"
I was half drunk and hungry, so I walked from my Motel room to the Kentucky Fried Chicken/Taco bell right there across a grassy area.
Just as I was getting to the parking lot, a second police car arrived.
Seems someone had called the POPO because of a disturbance.
When I got inside, the folk there were kinda amused, because it appeared the disturbance was someone not happy with their order and had come in cussing.
I said "Please, just let me get my chickn and get back to my room" and everyone cracked up 🤣
One of the police came inside and asked for the manager, listened to the chatter for a minute before saying "There is no law against cussing"
When the manager didn't come out in a reasonable time, he left saying something like "if she doesn't want to talk with me, so be it (or something to that effect)
He headed outside, and JUST as my order was ready, the manager came hurrying out.
Once again I said "Please, just let me get my chickn and get back to my room" and everyone cracked up again 🤣
The things you see in a small town off the interstate!
