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Originally Posted by onesnowyowl
...I'm kind of sad that the new Queens of the Stone Age album comes out on Tuesday, after we've left and lost our ability to put it on our iPods.  The CD player in the car we're taking is kind of...broken. |
Not acceptable! Have room for an old diskman with a car power adapter?
Reminds me of a trip to socal with a buddy. I'd worked on my car and its stereo for a week to get ready. Everything ran great, sounded great. I had to work the morning of our trip but everything was prepared. Eleven a.m., I walk out of the air conditioned store into a blazing hot summer day. Perfect! Get in the car, turn on the stereo and *KaPop!* Blew an output transistor. Just like that we were reduced from state of the art tunes to a desperation BiMart boombox that poked our elbows or fell on the floor at every corner.
Fate happens. The boombox turned out to be a lifesaver. Our poor financial planning left us short of food and gasoline funds. We rolled into Redding on fumes and we were STARVING! We found a pawn shop downtown that gave us $40 for the boombox. Just enough to stuff ourselves at a buffet and get back to Corvallis comfortably.
Several months later I drove back through Redding and recovered that boombox. He charged me ~$5 premium for the loan which put it into the "extreme bargain" category. For a couple years that thing was my lucky charm. Until it was stolen along with the car holding it. Fickle fate.