Forgot to mention that the cable guy came about 4 p.m. to figure out why I couldn't access the DVR after he installed a new cable box several days ago. It turned out to be quite a process that took about an hour and a half, and the help another cable guy, who came to assist after about thirty minutes.
I think if I hadn't been on hand, these two might never have figured out our complicated system that required four remotes. They needed me to guide them in how to operate a system that had the TV connected to a sound system, a cable box, and a combo DVD/VCR unit.
I had hoped to keep VCR capacity, but when we tried a VHS tape in it, the unit gobbled it and wouldn't turn it loose. So I decided to abandon the unit. That uncomplicated things a little, but it still took some wrangling to get cables attached to the right places.
Once the DVD player worked, I tried to switch to TV...no picture. So, we were off to the races again, until the problem was solved. But now there was no sound. More cable wrangling. Finally, we had sound. I tested all the remotes again, and learned that everyting works if I use different input signals from what I'd used in the past.
The DVD we used to assure that the unit was working was an animal show, which prompted one of the cable guys to relate an amimal story.
Seems a friend of his had a couple of kids, one of whom captured turtles to play with. The kid turned them loose later, but once he asked his father if turtles bite, and was assured that they didn't, or if they did, it wouldn't hurt.
Wrong, because one day the daughter frantically called the mother at work, saying that her 12-year-old brother had been bitten by a turtle. The mother laughed, saying it couldn't be that bad. But the daughter insisted that she needed to come home right away.
When she arrived home, the mother discovered that the turtle had the boy's lip tightly clamped in its mouth. Apparently, the boy was observing the turtle close up, when the turtle lunged out and grabbed his lip.
The father was alerted to come right home, and the two parents tried everything to get the turtle to turn loose of the boy's lip. They even rubbed a ice cube over the back end of the turtle, hoping to shock it into turning loose. But it reacted instead by withdrawing inside of its shell, taking the boy's lip with it.
Out of ideas, the parents decided to take the boy to the hospital ER. What a sight that must have been to others in the waiting room...a boy with a turtle held in his palm, with his lip in the turtle's mouth.
In order to get the turtle to turn loose, the doctor had to inject it with a muscle relaxant.
The boy is grown now, but he still carries a half-moon scar on his lip.
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