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Another valued mem- ber of our family is leaving us. After de- cades of faithful service, our elaborate CD system with its multiple wires, speakers and a subwoofer the size of a Buick has conked out.
PATERNITY WARD D. L. Stewart
The End Of The CD Player
SPEED BUMP by Dave Coverly
Admittedly, the CD player hasn’t
been a big part of our lives lately. Just about the only time we turn it on is for background music at dinner parties ... But now we’re stuck with 81 CDs and no place to stick them.
Admittedly, the CD player hasn’t been a big part of our lives lately — just about the only time we turn it on is for background music at dinner parties and I’m not even sure why we do that.
CD player. It weighed about 10 pounds and had to be wired to a set of Bose head- phones that made me look like Princess Leia. But that’s long gone. The slots in our cars’ dashboards have been eliminated. If there’s a slot for CDs on my Mac, I can’t find it.
After a few rounds of cocktails, the conversations get so loud that the Philadel- phia Philharmonic Orchestra could personally be playing the 1812 Overture in our din-
Fortunately, most of my favorite songs are saved to my cellphone and can be wirelessly sent to my hear- ing devices when I sync them, which is something I’ m rap- idly learning to master.
But now, we’re stuck with 81 CDs and no place to stick them.
So what do I do with a col- lection of used CDs that can be best described as “eclec- tic?” Should I just throw them
ing room and no one would be able to hear it.
On a recent flight from Ohio to California, for in- stance, we were only over Omaha by the time I got them together.
There’s probably a gad- get I could buy for playing them, but we already have more electrical gadgets in our home than we have electrical outlets.
I used to have a portable
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