Momma always said if you could read, you could do anything.

Then on Christmas eve when I wanted to play with my new card shuffler I doubted her.

Printed instructions called for 2AA batteries, and I found our big box of batteries.

None were 2AA. We only had AA and AAA.

The AAA were too small, and I almost broke the shuffler trying to put in an AA battery before I realized the instructions called for two double A batteries, not 2AA as I had read.

I felt dumber than a box of rocks as I forced the batteries in place, and also managed to cut my finger while doing it.

The next day was Christmas, and my next-to-theoldest granddaughter, Katy, and her husband, Michael, came over.

They brought me another Christmas present: a new TV!

Their surprise included visits from Edmond granddaughters Kinsey and Gracie, and their boyfriends, Drew and Drew. Yes, they have the same first name.

The grands were in Hennessey that day for a Clements cousin lunch at the Methodist Church, and the guys made quick work of installing the TV.

They also switched it over to my Pioneer TV remote.

Yeah! No more TV sun streaks, or poor color quality, they’d noticed a few days earlier.

A few days later when Jill and Tracy (my daughters- from another) were here to play Wahoo they’d switched the TV to our usual music channel.

They may have used the wrong remote because after they left I switched the channel, and noticed the the color of the newscasters were way too bright.

I tried to watch it, but the color was too glaring, and I decided to fix that.

After I got the color calmed down I made the same dumb and dumber changes in getting back to the old remote, and gave up at 1 a.m.

At about 4 p.m. the next day I got online and made contact with a Vizio robot for an hour until he/ she or it said I needed to talk to a live person.

“No duh!” as Rachel, my oldest granddaughter, used to say.

Early the next day I got a text from Vizio saying they’d tried to reach me, and I called them back. That’s when a live phone tech gave up on me after about 30 minutes. Or maybe it was an hour before she told me to call my TV provider.

I did. The Pioneer tech fixed the problem in less than three minutes. That included him putting two new batteries in my TV remote because, it only had one battery in it.