Never press a button if you don't know what it does.

...This is my new philosophy on life. I'm visiting my parents this week, and I thought it might be fun to show them my sorority Lip Synch performance from Greek Week 2004. Unfortunately, it's a new VCR/DVR combo and we couldn't find the eject button.

So, in her infinite wisdom, Mom starts pressing random buttons-- resulting in her recording over half the performance. I emailed the guy who made me the copy, and he no longer has the original since he taped over it with this past Christmas. None of my sorority sisters seem to have copies either. So I am doomed to only have half of it because of a stupid button.

There, now we've all learned a valuable life lesson.

Also, never tape over your wedding video with a Super Bowl Game. That never ends well... or so I've heard.