Repairs

My dvd player broke a few days ago - no idea why. It just stopped in the middle of Frasier, wouldn't play anything, wouldn't open the disc-thingy, wouldn't turn off, and was stubbornly refusing to tell me why.

So I tried everything I could think of (turning off the powerpoint, unplugging the leads, and pressing pretty much every button on my remote), and then opened the manual and tried everything that suggested, and my dvd player still was sitting there not doing anything.

...so I rang my dad.

(My dad has a strange superpower which allows him to spontaneously make things work just by being in the room. Once, he went overseas for five weeks, and our cd player broke down the day he left. We couldn't do anything to make it turn on. And then, when he got back, we said "Dad, the cd player's not working," and he walked into the lounge, turned the cd player on, and said "What's the problem?"
He is incredible.)

Sure enough, my dad had only to reach out and touch my dvd player for a moment, and it instantly fixed itself and started behaving properly...