Pluggers by Rick McKee for January 23, 2021

Or just really drunk hahaha

I think he suffers from something worse than plugger.

I guess I’m not that kind of plugger yet because I’ve not watched my TV in years.

My TV remote can be voice-controlled, and I have an app on my phone that can change the channel. I’m so far in the future I’ve wrapped around to being a old-fashioned Plugger!

There’s an app for that these days.

I once put a tissue or something in the sink, then poured some water into the waste basket.

That’s one I do not see myself doing ! Not a phone or TV addict ;-)

This won’t happen to me. I leave the phone in another room so I can watch movies without interruption.

I worked at an office that had electronic door locks that you opened by swiping a card near a sensor. After one particularly long day, I went out to my car and spent about 30 seconds trying to open its doors by waving my card at it. I was about to call my wife to bring down our spare car key when the concept of car key finally pierced my mental haze.

Never a problem. My phone is either on my desk or in my pocket, the remotes are upstairs in the entertainment room.

Or tried to control the TV with the VCR remote, the DVD remote, the CD player remote, or the Entertainment Center remote.

I resent that—I’m a ‘Plugger’ and have NEVER and I mean NEVER mistaken the tv remote for the phone—may have pushed the wrong button but haven’t tried answering the remote ! ! ! !

“you don’t say” (x3)…(after hanging up phone) “what did they want”, “they didn’t say”

I have tried to use my phone as a mouse when it was sitting next to my keyboard.

Haven’t done THAT yet, but with all the controllers at my table, it’s just a matter of time….

From today’s Comics Curmudgeon:

I’ve always assumed that this feature’s mission is fundamentally one of in-group self-affirmation: “This is what we pluggers are like, and that’s a good thing, even though we might have our foibles!” However, with today’s installment of “You’re a plugger if you have incipient dementia,” I may have to reassess that judgement.

See also: trying to change channels on the TV with a calculator.

Happens here a lot (me) just give me something with push buttons and I just push, no matter what happens-usually TV involved.

I had to tell Patsnozzle to stop leaving the phone on his table with all the remotes. :)

A few years back, the wife thought the remote was a calculator. LMAO watching the channels change.

Been there, done that, and now I can’t find the T-Shirt

True.

I sometimes tried to add numbers on my office telephone with the results that several phones started ringing all over the place. After it had happened several times (with remarks from my colleagues: oh, it is just her, she is calculating on her phone again), I moved the calculator further away from the phone.

-It’s funny because old people can’t tell the difference between a cordless phone and a tv remote. Both items which have been around for decades.

When I was younger, and supposedly still had my marbles, I could still do some really silly things. I think the worst was when I locked myself out of the car while it was running. I had to walk (not too far) to a nearby house and get a coat hanger from the nice couple who lived there. It took probably close to half an hour to get all that done. I told hubby about my adventure, and he kindly (without laughing out loud) reminded me that the gas cap on that car had a key holder spot, complete with key! (Opened with a combination lock). I knew that, but was apparently just in airhead mode that day.