I never did an intro, but this is already not so fun....

[sgtsandman]

I had vinyl records until the sump pump in the basement of my last house to a crap. The records were ruined. I still have cassettes but I'm no longer sure I have a place to play them. I think the belts are shot in my last remaining cassette player.

 

[8thTon]

My Ranger still has a nice cassette player! I've enjoyed getting out some old tapes I hadn't listened to in a long time. Sounds surprisingly good too.

 

[Grumpaw]

I actually had a 45 rpm record player in my 64 Falcon Sprint. Bought it at JC Whitney. Back then the only thing we had was the photo and description in the catalog. Had to order catalog with a coupon from a car magazine. Paid via check or money order, even had C.O.D.
Forget how much it was, but do remember it only played when standing still. Wouldn't work worth a damn while driving. It hung under the dash and had it's own speaker built in, but pointing down at the floor.
Then came 8 track tapes...got one of those in 1968.

 

[Eddo Rogue]

I grew up in the age of cassette tapes and the Walkman

I had the bulky yellow Sony "sports" walkman that was "waterproof". I felt like a spoiled rich kid having it. Played the crap out of it! And it always worked, never ate a tape, I dont even remember changing the batteries too often....Stuff was so much more awesome back then, nowadays its all just useless alien technology.

 

[Dirtman]

I had vinyl records until the sump pump in the basement of my last house to a crap. The records were ruined. I still have cassettes but I'm no longer sure I have a place to play them. I think the belts are shot in my last remaining cassette player.

I will never understand living in a house that requires a pump to keep it from flooding.

 

[sgtsandman]

I will never understand living in a house that requires a pump to keep it from flooding.

Springs. Some don't show up until the house is built and it rains. I didn't know about the pump until after I had bought the house.

 

[Eddo Rogue]

I will never understand living in a house that requires a pump to keep it from flooding.

Isn't that all of Florida and part of Louisiana?

 

[Dirtman]

Isn't that all of Florida and part of Louisiana?

Down there they normally don't have basements.

 

[Dirtman]

Springs. Some don't show up until the house is built and it rains. I didn't know about the pump until after I had bought the house.

Don't get me wrong, 90% of the houses in my county use them and it's a pretty normal thing most people just accept. I'm lucky to have a house built on a hill and on sandy soil so water drains away fast, I do have a spring from a kinda water table thing above the water table? (Cant remember the sciencey name, it's a huge underground solid rock formation that traps so much runoff water it makes it's own water table above the regular one).

Anyway, that's at the back of my property and feeds my pond but still 10 feet below my basement....

 

[sgtsandman]

Oh, given the choice, I would prefer not to have a sump pump. The sump pump is only good as long as everything is working and you have electricity.

 

[PetroleumJunkie412]

nowadays its all just useless alien technology.

Tremble before my generation, old man.

 

[Eddo Rogue]

Mech suits are awesome. I was talking bout iphones.