Do Not Touch the Remote..

I was reminded today of a funny story, thought I should share. :) Maybe over time I will continue to post some of the funny or bizzarre or questionable stories of my youth! Won't that be fun.. lol

I was talking with my dad this morning while he waited for mom to get some bloodwork done at the clinic and the subject came up of porn on the cable tv! Odd subject for a daughter/father discussion. We had been chatting about movies that were out, that can be ordered through your cable company and I think he mentioned that there were a lot of porn flicks you could get, although they are not $4.99! I then told him this story, although I'm sure I've told it to him and mom before...

A LONG time ago, Derek and I were living in our apartment in Snohomish. Mom and dad had to go out of town for a softball tournament with Carrie and it happened to be Eric's birthday weekend. So we decided we would take him and a few of his friends out to Alfy's pizza and then back to our place to watch movies. I think the boys were spending the night too, there were maybe 4 kids. I am trying to recall Eric's age... hmmmm He had to be turning maybe 13 or 14.

So anyways, back at our apartment we left the boys alone in the living room to watch whatever they wanted and after a while we realized that they were flipping back/forth over the porn channel because back in the day when you did that, you would get a quick second of picture before it scrambled itself, so they flipped over that channel a hundred times or more! Derek and I looked at eachother and came up with a great on-the-fly birthday present... We quietly phoned the cable company (cuz that's how you did it way back when) and ordered that channel. A minute or more later as we spied on the boys, they flipped over the porn channel and realized they were getting more than a seconds peak worth of picture! They all gasped and one or more said to the remote holder "WHAT DID YOU DO?" as they realized they had not done anything different they all started saying in slow motion almost "DO NOT TOUCH THAT REMOTE!" They just kept saying it over and over, like the remote was the magic wand that suddenly granted them their wish.

It was Frickin Hilarious!! They were so dumbfounded by what was happening, they had no clue how or why they were getting this channel all the sudden, they figured it was a glitch with the remote, but they soon realized something was up as we were laughing our asses off and of course they now knew we were behind it all... So we left the channel on and went to bed knowing the boys would be up for a very long time!