A television with an attitude

Two nights ago, as we were watching TV, with the lights turned low, Ken heard an unusual noise . . . a few minutes later he heard it again. Ken, the one in the family who has to "find" the source of any odd noise in the household was stumped. Ten minutes later we both heard it. It sounded like we had a critter in the rig. We turned on the lights and noticed the television was, on its own, spitting out the DVD player tray . . . and then would "suck" it back in. We hadn't touched the remote! It was sporadically sending the tray out and retracting it back every few minutes or so—over and over again. We got a bit irritated at it, at first, then became accustomed to the noise and semi-ignored it (even though one of us would grumble every time it happened).

We finally just turned it off and went to bed and thought nothing of it until we were just about to fall asleep and . . . low and behold . . . we heard noise and noticed light from the living room. This time the television went on all by itself! So Ken got up and had to unplug it from the wall so we could get a good night's sleep.

That was two nights ago. Tonight was a little different story. Tonight, for the first hour the same thing happened . . . DVD tray in . . . out . . . in . . . out. We ignored it. Then the mute button on the remote wouldn't work. About twenty minutes later the television wouldn't let us change the channel with the remote or even manually. . . AND the volume goes down to zero all on its own! At the end of the evening, not one of the buttons on the front of the television would function!

Must be time for a new one—after all the Super Bowl is coming up!

Life is good!