Cheryl 2 points, VCR nothing

Yeah, another one bites the dust.
I come home from a hard day at work... and drive Cheryl to Wendy's... we are having a burger, and she casually mentions that the VCR died... Like it's no thing... she said it attacked one of her tapes, so she decided to take it apart with a screw driver... The side note on this is that she has had bad luck with this sort of thing before... Last time, we had a VCR hooked up in the room. It was a little temperamental and would flash in and out between cable and the movie that was playing... This was always fun because 9 out of 10 times, you would be watching a scary movie, and then out of the blue... Oprah. We would always scream, since real TV is much scarier than a movie... So in classic fashion we would always give the disfunctional appliance a little love pat, and some extra motivation in the form of a savage beating that would render most appliances inoperable... But this little VCR was a tough one and would usually bounce back to where it was with no other incidences...

So one day, I am sitting on the couch with Autumn, Cheryl having just gone into the room to watch a flick... and I hear this insane sound coming from the room. Cheryl went on for at least five minutes, beating the poor VCR to no end... It sounded like she was taking a machete to the poor thing... Cheryl emerges moments later to inform us that the VCR is no longer with us. And I can't say that it came to us at any shock at all... I mean for Christ's sake, it's a VCR, not the black box on an air craft... I mean no shit it is going to die if you beat the hell out of it... but maybe she didn't know.

So now the record is two for two... VCR's that she has killed and given the worn out explanation that they wronged her in some way and had it coming... I am running out of excuses to tell the employees at Walmart. The explanation that it was obviously a manufacturer's error is getting a little harder to pass off when I hand them a machine that looks like it got hit by a truck...
maybe they'll but it... I hope so... Since over 70% of our movies are on tape...
Lame