Dehumidifying DVD Remotes

Okay, that's a bad title. It should more properly read, "What to Do When You Idiotically Drop Your DVD Remote into a Cold Cup of Milk."

You see, some time ago I came up with the brilliant idea of using an oversize metal cup to hold all the remotes in our bedroom. It worked great, and even had a cute picture of an Old Navy reindeer on the front.

Yesterday, however, I was tired of working and thought I'd eat my lunch in front of the TV set. I was just about to watch my very first episode of "Lost." (Yes, I know the whole world has been watching that series for the past 7 years, without me in their midst. Does that mean I have to do things on everybody else's timetable?

I set my over-sized cup of milk in front of the cup holding the remotes and enjoyed something delicious while I watched people racing around trying to cope with having fallen 40,000 feet through the air onto a deserted island (well, deserted except for the ravaging creatures that sneakily pick them off one by one). I can't remember what I was eating right now, but that's beside the point.

I have this nasty habit of putting things away whenever I see them laying around. When I didn't need the remote anymore, I plopped it into its cup....noooooo!!! Not THAT cup!!!!....it was that over-sized metal cup half full of milk! I yanked the remote out, but it was too late.

It took quite a long time to get all the milk out of it and wipe off the batteries. No, it did NOT work anymore. Aughh! And how can one enjoy "Lost" if one can't rewind the best parts?

I explained my tale of woe to Ted, who came up with the brilliant plan of submerging the remote in a container of rice overnight. The idea behind that is, the rice sucks up all that extra moisture. Evidently Ted had used this method on his cell phone when he got it wet.

Yup, you guessed it, when we took it out and inserted the batteries in it today, it worked!! Yay!!

So this is my blog about dehumidifying DVD remotes. I should probably put this device on the market! Well, there was one downside, and that is that the remote sounds like a marimba now...there's no getting that rice out. But that is a small price to pay for being able to rewind an exciting episode of "Lost," right?