Today, I asked my father if I could have my grandfather's old vinyls, record player, and vintage tube radio. He told me he threw those out years ago because, "Who listens to that crap anymore, now that we have mp3s?" FML
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Halloween
A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
Today, my grandfather gave me a whole box of records to go with my new record player. When I thanked him, he said he'd been needing to get rid of them anyway because classical music makes him horny. I definitely didn't need to know that. FML
Today, my boyfriend threw out my old voicemail recorder, thinking it was junk. My father passed away years ago. I kept a recording of the last voicemail he'd left me on it so I'd always remember his voice. FML
Today, I’m getting so old that the local radio station that plays the “old classics” is playing songs I listened to in high school. FML
Today, I accidentally left some music playing on my iPad, then left to do some errands. When I came back, I found it smashed into a million pieces. Apparently, grandpa couldn't find any other way to "shut off that goddamn music." FML
Today, my mother threw away my brand new headphones. She saw them on the couch with duct tape on the wires and assumed they were "old, broken, and cheap." I put the tape there to avoid damaging the wires. FML
Today, as I go to a small private Christian college, the academic dean came up to me and asked me to put some old records on CD, since I have a record player that can do that. I had to listen to eight records of old students from the 1970's singing bible thumper Christian hippie music. FML
Today, I came home from work to find my kids playing Frisbee with my collection of rare, valuable vinyl records. The term "smash hit record" took on a whole new meaning. FML
Today, I've been trying to find and revisit a song that my dad listened to all the time when I was a kid, and I finally found it. Except now I'm old enough to realize the lyrics are about a psychotic man who gets put in a "home" for things I cannot put in here. FML
Today, my parents confiscated my iPod, because the parents' group they go to came to the conclusion that music is a gateway to anti-social behavior. FML
Today, I made my mom a mix CD for her car. It took me ages to find just the right songs that would be perfect for her. When I played it for her in the car, she took it out and threw it out of the window. FML
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Mungolikecandy 19
They have only become fashionable again recently and it sounds like it was a long time ago when they were thrown out without you wanting them.
Inkoseh 33
Eh.. Unless you expressed interest in it in the first place and ASKED to hold onto it especially since you knew you weren't in town, there's no real reason to be mad. People sell and toss stuff all the time. If you had specifically asked for it to be held, then I can understand the FML.
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RichardPencil 32
That's why you have to act quickly, like the dude handing out pet store flyers.
weazle 13
How does this have anything to do with you? You didn’t even notice for YEARS. And it’s not even your stuff
CakeForBreakfast 7
Well my grandparents live far away on the other side of the country, so following my grandfather's death 6 years ago it was just my father who was available to go and help my grandmother pack and move to a new house, me being caught up with work. That's when everything got thrown out, I was never asked. Fast forward to last year, I was finally able to move with my wife and kids in to a place we can call our own, and we have just finished our living room last week. That old record player would have been perfect there. That's when I called my grandma to ask for it; She said "ask your father".
Inkoseh 33
Eh.. Unless you expressed interest in it in the first place and ASKED to hold onto it especially since you knew you weren't in town, there's no real reason to be mad. People sell and toss stuff all the time. If you had specifically asked for it to be held, then I can understand the FML.
JackFaire 27
Still doesn't really feel like it raises to the level of "FML" to have accounted for your future interest they would have to never throw away anything ever just in case you might want something. Most people don't ask their kids if they want some of their parents possessions. This feels more like a "that sucks ah well I'll hit up a second hand store" I mean I'm never going to give my mom shit for what she did or didn't keep after my grandmother died. Sure I lost my grandma but she lost her mom and no matter how close I was to her that mother/daughter relationship was closer and my mom had every right to think only of herself and her sister when deciding what to do with my grandmother's possessions.
Mungolikecandy 19
They have only become fashionable again recently and it sounds like it was a long time ago when they were thrown out without you wanting them.
mfranks19891989 10
I’m going to assume your dad inherited them after your grandfather passed. I guess he could have checked with everyone first before he got rid of them. But they were technically his and if he wanted to get rid of them then he has the right to.
Mathalamus 25
Well he isn't wrong. Those things were obsolete for a reason. Get with the times.
maserle 8
Vinyl is and always will be superior to the compresssed mp3s compact format.