Saturday, January 18, 2014

How to Ride in a Car in 2004

In 2004, my younger brother got the iPod.  The iPod.  The original.  You know.  The one with the four buttons above the circular scroller?  That one.

We were pretty excited to have a new place to put our treasure trove of illegally pirated music.  We quickly emptied our Limewire music library onto the MP3 player, and the device was suddenly packed with great songs like "Unknown Artist - Track 1" and "Unknown Artist - Track 5".  

After transferring all of our music, the next step was to make sure that the iPod could be enjoyed while riding in my newly acquired (used) car.  We hopped into my 1999 Galant and made our way to the nearest Wal-Mart to pick up a tape deck adapter.  

Ahhhh the tape deck adapter.  A cassette tape with an auxiliary cord hanging out of it.  What an invention.  How the hell did those things even work?  No matter.

On the way home, my younger brother plugged the iPod into the tape deck adapter and pressed play.  

A nicer drive through the Missouri countryside has never been had...


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