£3.95 Maple Street is where Alison O'Neil has grown up, though not in her parents' eyes. Eighteen as of two weeks ago, Alison is already setting her eyes on college, a venture in life she hopes to be able to journey into away from her somewhat stifling parental units. It isn't that her parents are cruel or even all that restrictive; it's more that no matter how much she has matured they simply can't see her as anything other than their baby girl. An argument over all of this, over not being treated like an adult, over not being allowed to move out until junior year of college, causes nothing but stress to Alison on the night of May 19. However, when she storms out of the house to go for a relaxing drive, that drive may just take her to destinations so unexpected she'll long to return to the home she's grown up in. Alison's father Don O'Neil has always worked in product development, fishing his inventions out to one company or another, constantly tinkering in the garage. His workshop is a mess of partially worked on, frequently abandoned ideas, and one of those ideas strikes Alison in the head quite literally when she slams the door on her way out.A remote control, looking like a standard television remote though having different buttons, falls off a shelf and instantly adds to the headache her parents are giving her. Unfortunately storming back inside to toss the offending device back at her father doesn't help the matter any. As Alison goes right back and takes a drive to calm her nerves, her clueless parents settle in for date night, Don distracted by the fact that the jolt to the remote seems to have it actually working the way he'd intended.A simple premise of a remote control that uses themes instead of numbers to change channels becomes a night of traveling their daughter never intended. Putting aside the argument with Alison, Don and his wife Nancy take their own trip down memory lane by snuggling on the couch in front of the television and trying out the remote. With

Maple Street is where Alison O'Neil has grown up, though not in her parents' eyes. Eighteen as of two weeks ago, Alison is already setting her eyes on college, a venture in life she hopes to be able to journey into away from her somewhat stifling parental units. It isn't that her parents are cruel or even all that restrictive; it's more that no matter how much she has matured they simply can't see her as anything other than their baby girl. An argument over all of this, over not being treated like an adult, over not being allowed to move out until junior year of college, causes nothing but stress to Alison on the night of May 19. However, when she storms out of the house to go for a relaxing drive, that drive may just take her to destinations so unexpected she'll long to return to the home she's grown up in. Alison's father Don O'Neil has always worked in product development, fishing his inventions out to one company or another, constantly tinkering in the garage. His workshop is a mess of partially worked on, frequently abandoned ideas, and one of those ideas strikes Alison in the head quite literally when she slams the door on her way out.A remote control, looking like a standard television remote though having different buttons, falls off a shelf and instantly adds to the headache her parents are giving her. Unfortunately storming back inside to toss the offending device back at her father doesn't help the matter any. As Alison goes right back and takes a drive to calm her nerves, her clueless parents settle in for date night, Don distracted by the fact that the jolt to the remote seems to have it actually working the way he'd intended.A simple premise of a remote control that uses themes instead of numbers to change channels becomes a night of traveling their daughter never intended. Putting aside the argument with Alison, Don and his wife Nancy take their own trip down memory lane by snuggling on the couch in front of the television and trying out the remote. With

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