Just call me Miss Fix It

Well since I can't seem to easily go to sleep let me tell you my little adventure with the VCR, getting chills yet? Earlier today I scrammbled online in desperation to see if any fix it man was on. Last night I was watching..well i'm afraid to say it because then you all will think for sure that i'm totally obsessed...uh, just use your imagination. So anyway, I was watching this movie on Saturday and stopped it because we were going to church game night, woo. Oh and may I just add that I was Doctor Bob in mofia, outlaw, or whatever you wanna call it, and the outlaw shot two people and then I picked those same two people right after wards. Make any sense? I don't know but everyone else was impressed. So, back to the story. I was going to watch it later that night and turned on the tv. It just made a strange noise and then the tv just shut off again. It did this everytime I turned the stupid thing on. Well the video was stuck, and this was a video that I rented from the library! So I had these dreaded thoughts of paying $200 worth of bills for late fees, damage fees, getting the video stuck in your tv fees. So then today I remembered that the video was still stuck and it wasn't just going to unstuck it's self (can I use that word?). So that's when I came online and online 2 people were on and one said to e-mail Brad and maybe take the tv apart. The other just plainly said, "Open up the VCR." Oh yeah and there was, "Why are you still living in the stone age?". Take it apart eh? Well it was the only way to steer clear from the $200 dollars that I didn't have for some old 70's movie. So I unplugged the tv, brought it out to the living room and told my mom, "I'm bringing it out here just in case I get electrocruted." She laughs. So I start unscrewing all these screws and pulled it apart. Mom started helpping after a while. Dad finally comes along and says,"What are you silly girls doing?? Let a man do his job!"......oh ...wait, that's not what he said excatly. It was more like, "Well I need to get out and do something, think it's too late to go to the park?" Then he was off. So, hopelessly left alone, we were on the verge of giving up. The tape just wasn't going to come out. Then with one last prayer I yanked some part, I don't know, and wondered if the wires could unsnap or not. They could of course and now we could have better access to the tape. Well finally we got it out! HURRAH! It was victory at last.
I was looking at all the tv parts on the living room floor and asked my mom if we could just throw it in the trash. It was only the backroom tv and it had been seeing better days. Well she encouraged me to put it back together, just to see if I could, she said. Well I did...and it doesn't work. Now that I think about it, don't call me Miss Fix It because I didn't fix anything. All I did was tear apart the tv and get a tape out. Sigh, but that's the best I can do i'm afraid.