That said, what's the story? Every woman I've known seems to have this issue with remote controls and the TV/Stereo.
The entire point of a remote control is for you to be able to control the device from where you are sitting comfortably or standing, some distance from the device.
When I go and sit down on my couch and want to turn on the TV, I should not have to get up and walk BACK to the TV across the room to retrieve the remotes stored in the entertainment center.
The remotes should be kept on the coffee table where I leave them after using them.
I bitch at my girlfriend about this and she bitches back that she gets annoyed that I leave the remotes on the couch itself. What she doesn't realize is that I hide the remotes between the cushions of the couch because whenever I leave them on the table she puts them in the entertainment center. WTF DO YOU THINK WE HAVE A COFFEE TABLE FOR IN THE FIRST GODDAMN PLACE?
Seriously, she doesn't even like coffee and I drink it about twice a week in the morning, and maybe once a quarter in the evening... we never drink coffee at our coffee table. The coffee table should be called the Remote Control Storage table, because that's what the motherfker is FOR!
What's funny is that sometimes she will get the remote, use it to turn on the TV, then go and put it back in the entertainment center and go back and sit down to watch the TV. I can make no sense out of this series of events whatsoever. It defies logic by any set of rules that I can conceive of.
So let's recap: the purpose of a remote control is to control the device FROM A DISTANCE - hence the word REMOTE in the name of it.
Remote controls have a usable range of AT LEAST 15 feet, usually quite a bit more. They are meant to be used FROM A DISTANCE.
The most logical place to have a remote control stored is where you will be sitting most frequently when you are using it which will mostly be AT SOME DISTANCE from the device you are watching or listening to.
If the remote is within 6 inches of the device and your comfortable couch or recliner is 12 to 20 feet away, you have failed in the laying out of your domicile.
So ladies, if your man stores his remotes on your coffee table, and you can't stand it, please don't put the remotes in the entertainment center. Consider getting him some sort of remote caddy or other device for his couch or recliner. I promise you that as much as it pisses you off to hear the opening jingle to ESPN's Sports Center, it pisses him off twice as much if he's had to get up from his chair to get the remote after sitting down and expecting it to be there and finding it not. This is most likely why he turned on Sports Center loud enough to piss you off in the first place.
Next lesson: How to figure out the remote, and why pressing random buttons on all the remotes until Oprah comes on is not the right way to do things.
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you married her. Just get a universal remote and velcro it to the side of where ever you like to sit. Problem solved. She can do what ever makes her happy with the other remotes.
