The Remote Control
Athos gave me quite a scare when, in the quiet of this Sunday morning, he suddenly jumped up and started barking at the sound of the doorbell.
My downstairs neighbor, holding an enormous remote control and looking distraught (and slightly teary-eyed), tells me how she dropped it on the floor last night (she made a point of telling me she’s clumsy) and the batteries popped out onto the carpet.
I think another five minutes went by before I understood what she wanted from me. She’d put one of the batteries in the wrong way and closed the cover, and now she didn’t know how to open it again and was afraid to drop the remote on the floor again in case it broke.
I’m not telling this story to “make fun” of an elderly woman, but to show just how overwhelming some problems can be—problems that we smart, young, carefree types don’t even give a second thought.
God spare me the day when I can’t open a remote control…
Even more touching was the fact that, wanting to repay me, she invited me inside so she could give me a few… books. She had several and had already read them.
I politely declined and went out to walk Athos.
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ce ma bucur ca esti sufletist si ti-ai ajutat vecina!frumos din partea ta!
luminitza a scris pe blogul său remember
Hahahaha! Parca va si vad, amandoi chiauni si uimiti. Care vecina era?
katja a scris pe blogul său La botul… cainelui
Simpatic. Oricum sunt sigur ca ti-a facut bine faptul ca ai ajutat-o.
Unele telecomenzi au problema asta: e greu sa le deschizi. Am patzit si eu! Si pana nu am bagat shurubelnitza, nu a vrut. Fericiti cei milostivi caci aceia se vor milui!:)
Adevarul e ca si unele telefoane se deschid “ciudat” ca sa schimbi cartela, nu mai zic de cutiutzele din plastic care adapostesc card-reader-ul sau cardul aparatului foto, uneori nu se deschid nici cu toporul =)) . Cu batranica ai procedat cu suflet =D>
daca nu as fi stiut , ca e o poveste adevarata, m-as fi gindit ca e cea mai draguta poveste de duminica!! si tu un vecin formidabil, ptc. una ca mine, care habar nu are sa deosebeasca un cui de un surub ar fi intrat in panica mai mare, nestiind, ce sa mai faca ! ca sa nu mai spun, ce duminica e aia fara telecomanda, fara televizor, unicul prieten al atitora oameni singuri! ma bucur, ca ai ajutat-o! esti un baiat bun! ai de la mine punctele alea, care nu stiu niciodata , care sint cele bune,cele albe sau cele rosii??
Vezi ca ai si vecine dragutze?
am ajutat o tanti in varsta sa treaca strada si m-a intrebat cum ma cheama. de atunci nu m-am mai certat cu Lacramioara
Anathaema a scris pe blogul său The Image Singer™