Today I was doing some honey-dos in the guest bedroom. While I was busy in there I decided I wanted to watch the final round of this week’s PGA golf tournament. Thing is we have not had a house guest since before the pandemic lock down so it has been that long since that TV had been used. First I had to load our current streaming service onto this TV, then I discovered the Roku menu was not working. I diagnosed the problem quickly – for me – as the batteries being dead in the remote controller. Opening the back of the device I discovered I needed two AA batteries. Problem was we had used up the last of the package a while back.
Remembering the oft repeated line of Clint Eastwood’s character, Gunnery Sergeant Tom Highway, in the 1986 classic film, Heartbreak Ridge, “You’re Marines now. You adapt. You overcome. You improvise.”, I went to Senora’s nightstand. Grabbing the Valentine Day adult gift I had given her while I was traveling between St. Louis and Memphis, I extracted two AA batteries. Voilà, the remote begin to excitedly do its thing, and I could watch my golf tournament.
Of course the most repeated quote from the movie is what the Gunnery Sergeant said to the General when asked what he thought of the operation, “It’s a cluster f***, Sir.” Which is what it will be around here if I do not get to the store for more batteries before Senora returns from her Florida trip.
And so it goes.