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Well, I have a sofa that eats remotes! Yesterday the tv remote disappeared.
We scoured this house. Assuming that a ferret was guilty, we searched
under dressers, beds, sinks, and appliances. We dug thru closets, turned
boots upside down. We even looked in the unlikely places like *inside* the
fridge! We threatened and cajoled all animals in the house but nobody
would 'fess up and reveal the location. I knew that the longer the remote
was missing, the less likely the remote would survive. I *know* that
remotes cannot live for very long off of the coffee table. They require
constant button stroking. In a final act of desperation, I removed the
cushions from the sofa and thrust my arm deep into the gaping hole
underneath (how did that get there, anyway??). I pulled out "intestinal
blockages" such as stuffing, paper, and a few toys that the ferrets were
missing. Plunging my arm deep inside the guts of the innocent looking sofa
one more time, I felt something. Ah! Victory! I removed the remote from
the bowels of the sofa. A careful inspection of the remote revealed no
missing buttons! Now I am afraid to sit on the sofa when I am home alone!
It's obviously a vicious, non-discriminating, hungry creature. The
stealthiness of the sofa is like that of a fox and it's apparently
unsatiable appetite reminds me of ... of... well, I don't know but I am
sure glad that the ferrets don't climb on the couch lest they be devoured
by the sofa and never seen again!
Renee
[Posted in FML issue 2881]
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