Poll to sample CP members by generation

[duncan_idaho]

Originally Posted by Rain Man

My parents bought one of those massive console TVs that had the TV in the middle and a phonograph on the left and a radio on the right, with huge built-in speakers. I think they just enjoyed spending money, because they never listened to the radio and, I am not kiddjng about this, they owned one record album. One.

We moved every year at least once and I was always the 10-year-old who had to lift half of that thing onto the moving truck.

My mom and dad bought a Zenith with a built-in telephone in 1982. It stopped working in 90 (tube went bad), Dad fixed it for about six months more of life, and then the tube died for good in 1991.

When we finally got them moved out of that house in May of last year, that piece of shit was still sitting in the same spot (in their very small 2-bedroom home).

My mom refused to get rid of it because “it was a nice piece of furniture and I paid a lot for it!” Despite it not working for 31 years at that point.

If Dad hadn’t died, she would have insisted on dragging that worthless hunk of trash to the new house, too.