Today, I googled for an hour how to open my CD player on my laptop. Turns out, there is none. They just put a space there to make it look like a CD player. FML
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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, at work, I put my earphones in to listen to some music. An hour later, I realised I never pressed play. FML
Today, I bought a CD off a man who always plays Spanish guitar in the subway. When I got to work and tried playing the CD, it was blank. I paid $15 for a blank CD. FML
Today, I tried to look for a copy of a CD that my mom wanted after Amazon lost it. For some reason, that specific CD can only be ordered online. None of the stores have it in stock and the one store I tried wouldn't allow me to use the "ship to store" option on their website. FML
Today, I found out that my old DVD player had stopped reading my DVDs. I had the dumb idea to stick my finger in there to see what the problem was. I found the problem, which was that my fingernail wasn't on my finger after doing that. FML
Today, I was tempted into clicking a shady link with the promise of free MP3s of De La Soul’s first four albums, with all the original samples. Long story short, I had to do a system restore on my laptop. Now it won’t play audio files for some inexplicable reason. FML
Today, I was so bored I googled the word "bored." The results were boring. 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
Today, I found an old USB drive and spent an hour trying to open it because I was sure it had important files on it. It contained one blurry photo of my thumb and a Word doc titled “Do not open", which was actually blank. FML
Today, my kids found out how to control my Google alarm clock with their phones. While I was gone, they set it to play screamo metal at max volume, then paused it. Sometime after midnight, as I was sleeping, they pressed play. FML
Today, the speakers on my laptop weren't working. I worried I'd broken something, and started freaking out. I restarted my computer numerous times and played with the settings for an hour before calling my sister in to help. She looked at it for two seconds, then unplugged my headphones. FML
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danthehuman 29
The CD player was a lie.
apitrix 24
CD's have gone the way of the floppy disk! LONG LIVE THE USB!
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pizzafrommars 14
Acer
kittycatkelss 29
I did the same thing, OP. It wasn't overly important to me when looking for a new laptop, so I didn't even think to check the specs.
IcemistDragon 20
If you haven't done much with the laptop you can still return it if it was a super recent purchase. Another option would be to buy an external optical drive. It takes up a usb slot but it may be worth it.
Gurtol 9
is it an Asus by any chance? Because I had the exact same problem.
ImSparkly 9
That sucks. You could always just buy an external CD player for your laptop
mandoalba 5
Did you try putting the cd in the slot on my MacBook there is a slot where you just slide the disc in no way to open or close it
iiiLovefml 6
Same thing happened To me lol
DatCanadianGuy 5
My laptop has the same exact thing. It's almost as bad as fake pockets
Cath_Astald 9
How do you buy a laptop without checking its specs before? I mean you could've actually bought a camouflaged potato and you wouldn't know... Next time just do a little reading or ask staff in the shop for more info. Or just find the full name - model of the device you own/want to buy and google it. :)
msgrumpy 7
Happened to me before!