Push the damned button

My day was spent trying not to throw the remote at my mother.  She decided to get a VTR and we spent half the day waiting for the cable guy to show up, then the next 5 hours trying to figure it out without killing each other. 
Dude, seriously, she'd tell me to program it to tape one thing, then when she went over the settings, she cancelled the program saying she needed to learn to do it herself. 
Okay fine, then why the hell did she tell me to put the program in to begin with????????

But now it seems we can get ppvs.  So this could prove interesting.