Right to Have Remote!!!

Right to have Remote

Yesterday evening, after my office work, I thought of having a break before continuing with the dinner preparation. My 2-year-old was watching "Tom and Jerry!!" When I took the remote, she screamed "Mathatha ma!!" (don't change, mom) shakehead. I proceeded on, like I heard nothing!. My DD got out of the sofa, went to my DH, who was working on his laptop, and complained "Appa, Amma Mathita!!"(Dad!! Mom has changed the channel) and from there, I got the command, "Jan, don’t make her cry, let her watch what she wishes to watch!!"

Changing to Cartoon Network, I relaxed on sofa thinking when I last had the remote? It has been so long and I realized that I have been deprived of my right to have remote control these days. My MIL will be watching serials in the morning, FIL will be watching his favorite movies at noon, and when my daughter got up from her nap, it will be cartoon channel, with MIL taking over in the evening for serials, and the day ends up with my DH watching sports or share market. Don’t I have the right over the remote control? If not 33%, a 3%?? Half-an-hour a day??

How much I enjoyed having the remote in my hands before my marriage? I strongly feel the person who holds the remote control got the control over the house!! As, we are taking over the responsibilities of a house as DIL, cannot we have the privilege over a remote control?

In Indian films, as a DIL enters a house, the MIL used to handover the key of the money box. Now, we don’t want the key of the money box and all!! We will be so happy if MIL hands over the remote control to the DIL which implies that she got full control of that home!!! thumbsup

 

Hai Green planet!

Have edited ur comment eh? Never mind!! What u suggested was a good idea of having a DVD to record program and see it at leizure time!! but the problem is I never watch any program regularly, but I enjoy holding the remote and changing channels as per other's request. At my free time, will change channels from 1 to 100, then 100 to 1, not satisfied with any of them, will swith off and nap!!, but still i want the remote u see!!

 

Hai Amrita!!

Thanks for ur comments and I am happy that u liked it!!!

 

Thanks Tubelight, Knot2Share, and Sundarusha for ur valuable comments !!

It is my pleasure that you liked it!!

I feel we always underestimate the importance of things wen we have it and if we are deprived of it knowingly or unknowingly, it appears as though a major problem to us, though how much ever small it is!!