His invention seems to fall into my hands every moment of the day

I'm sure someone puts it there

Now all I need is someone to invent one which shouts out to me, from below the cushions that the rest of the family seem to think the RC should be hidden under. 

Or maybe one which electricutes anyone else, apart from me, who touches it. 

We had a remote control. It was called my little brother 

I remember my first telly as a child. It was a black and white portable and it didn't even have buttons. It had a dial you had to turn to get one of the 3 channels 

Years ago (as a mature student) I did a Maths GCSE - I went in my bag for mt=y calculator and ............pulled out the remote control. Fortunately there were spares in the exam room.

I'd like to thank him for making me possessive, argumentative and worst of all ... a flicker, yes the worst of the RC hoarders, flick up then down then up again regardless of others.

What others, oh you lot in the room watching the TV too

That's me that is  I hate adverts. I flick, check the planner, flick again 

I remember the first 'remote' control we had - think it was for the video recorder.   it plugged in to the front and had a long wire. It was sort of 'remote'

I remember that, for our betamax video

happened the other way around for me soozy, my daughter took the remote to school!

I hope she was grounded for a month at the very least. That is quite unforgivable IMO.

I remember a remote on a wire when I was a child, our video was a top loader as well