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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A very near one...Stephen5555's story reminded me of this. Aaaages ago (well, about four years ago) I was moving house, and had a lot of stuff boxed up. On the phone to my Mum one evening, she complained that she had nothing to play her tapes on. Since I had just picked up some new stereo equipment I thought, "I know, I'll stick that box of stereo equipment I've just replaced in the car, take it round to Mum's, and sort it out for her". So off went some Gale speakers, a Cambridge Audio amp (not desperately expensive, but quite good), a semi-decent tuner and a nice Akai cassette deck (with recently replaced belts, pinch roller and heads) and a CD player, up to Mum's, set up in the living room, hooked up to the telly so she could play tapes, listen to the radio, play CDs, and watch films on telly with the sound through the decent speakers.
Forwards about a year, and I'm on the phone to Mum. "Oh," she says, "I need you to sort out my new stereo when you come up!"
"Okay, what new stereo is this?"
"Well all that old stuff was too big so I'm taking it down to $charity_shop, I bought a nice little one instead".
"Uhm, Mum? You know how it's rude to mention how much something cost when you give it to someone? Well, you know that's about 500 quid's worth of stereo equipment you've got there...?"
So, that came right back out of the car.
(, Fri 15 Aug 2008, 13:12, Reply)
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