I have decided to end it all

[leftofthedial]

I've struggled along for years now thinking things will get better, but they haven't. I was willing to deal with things only being a fraction as good as they used to be, thankful for what little enjoyment was left. I dealt with the repeated frustrations, disappointments and unrelenting hassles for longer than I should have, but now I'm done. I'm worn out. I quit. Disc 1 and Disc 3 of my old Sony 5-disc CD player quit working reliably long ago. Now Disc 4 is not working and just this morning, Disc 5 started acting funky. Don't try to stop me. Don't try to talk me out of it. I'm scrapping the whole shebang. Goodby cruel CD player.

[XemaSab]

1. You gotta do what you gotta do, man

I'm sorry that you've been so disappointed, and hopefully the end will come as a blessing.

[leftofthedial]

8. sometimes it is kind to be cruel

they shoot horses don't they?

[havocmom]

2. We need a taps playin smilie

for such somber occassions

[leftofthedial]

9. either that

or a long, drawn-out fart sound file

[terrya]

3. Oh, god, a Sony 5-disc changer

Get the AK-47 out. I owned one of those fucking things. An absolute piece of shit.

[leftofthedial]

5. I think maybe an M-80 is in order

blow the fucker up

[JackBeck]

6. I still have it and only use it for listening to AAR in the evening and

for a home theatre sound system. I tried playing a CD on it a few weeks ago and my hubby was like, "Umm, that thing hasn't worked in like 4 years."

[Squatch]

4. Wait!!! Think about what you're doing! Think about the children!

Oh, pleeeeeeeeeeease!!!! Why don't you think about the children?!?!?!?

[leftofthedial]

7. I want to kill the damned thing before

a) it has children

or

b) one of my kids inherits it.

[Ravenseye]

10. I feel your pain

Recently I had to trash my 300 disc Sony DVD/CD changer. I put a rental movie in and the thing just died...nothing I could do. Sony wasn't supporting it...

I sucked it up and just took it apart piece by piece to take the rental disc out and then curbed the bitch.

[leftofthedial]

15. yikes! 300-discs?

60 times the pain!

you poor, poor creature.

[Ravenseye]

24. It was a dumb investment

I worked at a bar that had a 200 disc CD changer, and then when I started really getting into DVD's I thought...how cool, I can put all my DVD's in there and then watch any movie without getting up from the sofa.

If only it worked that easily.

When it died I was torn, but i'm much happier with my new single discer.

[AirmensMom]

11. Must run in the family.

Our Sony 5-disc CD player has been anything but reliable. I say put it out of its misery.

[leftofthedial]

14. maybe I could charge neighborhood 50 cents a whack

to demolish it . . .

[AirmensMom]

18. HAHA!

It wouldn't take very many whacks. :rofl:

[leftofthedial]

22. kids around here are pretty wimpy . . .

[hfojvt]

12. You forgot Poland!!

I mean, what about disc 2? That's all I have, with a single CD player, but that's not good enough for you? My "sound system" is a CD boombox. Which I never use, relying almost totally on my computer these days, which still only has about half my CD collection on it (I started to run out of hard drive space :blush:)

[leftofthedial]

13. I mostly use iTunes

so I'm not without tunage.

but when I do use the still functional Disc 2 on the player, I just can't stand the awful, growing dread I feel. It is a weight.--an oppressive, churning pain behind my solar plexus that I just can't face any longer. I'm a strong person--noble even--but I'm just not strong or noble enough to listen, knowing that it's only a matter of time before Disc 2 craps out and leaves me with 5 discs of stuttering, garbage rendering shite.

[hfojvt]

27. "the game of life is hard to play

I'm going to lose it anyway
the losing hand I'll someday lay
and this is all I have to say
that suicide is painless
it brings on many changes
and I can take or leave it if I choose.."

M.A.S.H. theme song verse 3

"Bring out your dead."
"Excuse me, I'm not dead yet."
"But you will be, you've got the plague."
"I'm feeling much better really."

[cssmall]

16. Did you buy that in 1993?

Because I have one from then, 5 disc and it sadly died as well. I use the equalizer and reciever as a plug in to run my television over the speakers.

[leftofthedial]

17. it would have been about then

it is only the CD player though. No receiver or EQ.

It was great for about six or seven years, then started acting funky. I haven't used it for a couple of years until just recently. Maybe there's a dead mouse up in there.

I suppose I could just try cleaning it out good . . .

[cssmall]

19. *sob*

:hug: I remember having to drop mine as well. So very sad that they die. It ran so well for so long!

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

20. I've had my Sony 5 Disc DVD player for about 3 or 4 years now

Never had a single problem. :shrug:

[leftofthedial]

21. this machine ran great for the first six or seven years or so.

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

23. Well, that's about what you should expect out of electronics.

Too many moving parts nowadays for them to last so long.

Give it a worthy funeral - it's served you well.

[leftofthedial]

25. I think I'll try to fix it.

yeah. It's probably just a little out of whack, or maybe just dirty or something.

[BikeWriter]

26. Why do you hate America?