Annoying things during a Pandemic:

Ever notice that when things are going wrong in the world, like a Pandemic and your daily life has pretty much come to a halt, it’s the small things that become the most annoying? You break a tooth, but the dentist isn’t open, you can’t get your prescriptions refilled, the doctor’s office is closed, you can’t go grocery shopping, you’re not suppose to leave the house, etc.. 

It’s a fact of life that annoying things will happen; they may not be serious, but still annoying. I have been making my own mixes of my favorite tunes for over 50 years, going from reel to reel then to cassettes and now to CDs. I have also been using what little skill I have to put together the music that we use in our aerobics classes for many years now. The teacher gets the music and decides which songs and routines we will use and I put them together in the order we will be doing them on to a CD. It’s just easier to put one CD in and go through the workout without changing CDs between the routines.

Anyway as I mentioned, I make my own mixes from the music in my collection because I like listening to them in my car. My car is older and doesn’t have the kind of stereo system that most cars have now a days, but does have a CD player. Whenever I get new music I have to make a new CD, so I had just put together one of Christian artists covering songs by mainstream artists. I had made it to give to a friend whose husband and daughter, are both musicians thinking they would enjoy it.

I always listen to them first before I give them away, so I had listened to this one once in my own car and it was perfect! Then I had to run out one evening and due to the parking situation in my driveway, I had to use an even older car and thought it would be kool to listen to the CD again. Big mistake! Everything was going just fine, it was sounding great, until I returned home and went to eject it from the player, then the most annoying thing happened! It didn’t want to spit it out! Every time I pushed the eject button it would stick its little head out then go back in! 

So I thought I might try seeing if I could perform a little operation using some tweezers hoping I could catch it before it went back in, but alas it failed! Now it won’t even come up! What could be more annoying than your car stereo swallowing a CD and refusing to spit it out! 

Thankfully I had kept the playlist in my iTunes and was able to whip out a second copy! It must be a sign of the times!