Did you put the old one next to it to remind it to play nicely or else?

On Sat, Mar 2, 2019 at 6:32 PM Chuck McCown <[email protected]> wrote:

> I stomped a VCR to death once.
>
> I was a young guy, young family, VCRs were the latest thing.  I got a
> budget
> brand.  Had to clean the heads frequently.  About the 10th time I opened
> it
> up, I was removing this small tension spring that you needed to remove to
> do
> the cleaning.  Some part of some moving part.  I don't recall much other
> than this tiny spring launched itself across the room into some distance
> patch of shag carpeting.
>
> I lost it.  I was doing the surgery on the living room floor.  I stood up.
> Put on a shoe and stomped hell out of that thing.  First stomp, my wife
> and
> kids realized I was really doing something crazy.  She screamed and
> grabbed
> my leg like I was stomping one of the kids, as if it could be saved.  Way
> too late for that.  I still remember the texture.  Like stomping a bag of
> saltine crackers.
>
> I had enough room on the credit card to go to Wal-Mart and buy another
> budget brand so the fam could watch the rented movie.  That newer unit
> never
> seemed to need cleaning.
>
> That has been a fun enduring family story.  And when raising a pile of
> young
> kids, it helps if they all think you just might go off and stomp one of
> them.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nate Burke
> Sent: Saturday, March 02, 2019 3:28 PM
> To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group
> Subject: [AFMUG] OT: Botched Server Upgrade
>
> Have you ever snarled transportation a city because you tripped?
>
> "An Amtrak worker fell onto a circuit board during a server upgrade
> Thursday morning and caused hourslong delays for Metra riders stuck on
> crowded trains going to and leaving Chicago's Union Station all day
> long. A resulting system outage prevented trains from being dispatched
> automatically, and ultimately Amtrak officials had crews deployed to
> control signals and switch tracks manually."
>
>
> https://www.dailyherald.com/news/20190301/cause-of-massive-metra-delays-a-worker-fell-on-the-circuit-board
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