Uh-Ohhhhhhh

Both boys new favorite word is uh-oh. We hear it often. When anything in their world goes askew they say uh-oh. Drop their bottle, uh-oh. Tear a page out of a book, uh-oh. A toy rolls under the couch, uh-oh. So today when we heard uh-oh we wondered what it could be now. What we found was a large black square’s appearance on the TV’s screen. Uh-oh is right. Change the channel and the picture appears for 3 seconds and then the black square reappears, uh-oh. Adjust the volume and the picture appears, then the black square reappears 3 seconds later, uh-oh. We made every modification we could, but nothing removed the black square. Thankfully, our local TV repairman knew the problem and solution. He said the closed captioning had been activated, uh-oh. He explained how to reverse the setting and suggested we hide the remote from the boys.