Thrown away: The stuff you loved and lost.Smash Wogan writes, "we all love our Mums, but we all know that Mums can be cunts, throwing out our carefully hoarded crap that we know is going to be worth millions some day."
What priceless junk have you lost because someone just threw it out?
Zero points for "all my porn". Unless it was particularly good porn...
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chthonic, Thu 14 Aug 2008, 16:32)
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Not me, but my DadMy father was an avid audiophile. Growing up, I got exposed to a lot of excellent music, from Bach to the Beatles, all played on top-end stereo equipment.
He has the following tale of utter woe:
As a young lad heading off to college in the early 1970's, he of course brought his collection of vinyl. As a prudent sort, he left the rarest of his records behind at home. These included some INCREDIBLY rare Rolling Stones and Beatles records. Rare enough that they'd cost him several hundred dollars even shortly after they'd been released.
Several years later, he asked his mother where she'd put his albums. "Oh, those! I thought you left those behind because you didn't want them. I threw them away."
My father said that for years after that, he'd checked the value of the lost records just as a sort of exercise in frustration. According to him, he stopped checking when he realized that the collection would have topped $50,000.
(, Fri 15 Aug 2008, 7:10, Reply)
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