# Why?!?!! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 15, 2003, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why/175433 "2003-05-15T13:48:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Waverly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/57b2e6/32.png) [@Waverly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Waverly)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2003, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why/175433/21 "2003-05-15T18:11:37Z")
Pffft. We didn’t _have_ CDs when I went to school. You ever try carrying around an LP player and portable generator? No, I thought not. We used to hum tunes on kazoos… and we _liked_ it. ---
**Author:** ![abbaZaba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/90ced4/32.png) [@abbaZaba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/abbaZaba)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2003, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why/175433/22 "2003-05-15T18:44:55Z")
I listen to a CD player in my classes ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2003, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why/175433/23 "2003-05-15T19:06:58Z")
You had an LP player and lectricity? Bah, in my day we had a Victrola, handcrank and a black & white dog… and I licked him. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2003, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why/175433/24 "2003-05-15T19:17:05Z")
Actually, I ummm liked him. Licked him a great deal. Very much… did I like him. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2003, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why/175433/25 "2003-05-15T19:17:10Z")
We didn’t have LPs when I was kid. We had to carry a harpischord to school. And we LIKED IT! ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2003, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why/175433/26 "2003-05-15T19:17:22Z")
Actually, I ummm liked him. Liked him a great deal. Very much… did I like him. ---
**Author:** ![World\_Eater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@World\_Eater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_Eater)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2003, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why/175433/27 "2003-05-15T19:20:27Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Crafter\_Man \* > \*\*Ain’t that the truth. And some people steal things just for the sake of stealing something. Sick. \*\* That’s all right, just “steal” some of their teeth when you catch them. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![jackelope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a6a055/32.png) [@jackelope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackelope)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2003, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why/175433/28 "2003-05-15T19:23:25Z")
In high school, someone once stole my winter coat from my locker when we were having a snowstorm and it was about 10 degrees outside. Then the next day they mysteriously put it back. ---
**Author:** ![Nametag](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nametag/32/406_2.png) [@Nametag](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nametag)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2003, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why/175433/29 "2003-05-15T19:24:47Z")
Umm, we had tape players and radios when I was in school, and bringing one to school would get it confiscated. You’re spoiled **and** soft. ---
**Author:** ![tiny\_ham](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a183cd/32.png) [@tiny\_ham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tiny_ham)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2003, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why/175433/30 "2003-05-15T19:38:34Z")
or maybe just lucky 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Waverly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/57b2e6/32.png) [@Waverly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Waverly)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2003, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why/175433/31 "2003-05-15T19:41:16Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by lieu \* > \*\*Actually, I ummm liked him. Licked him a great deal. Very much… did I like him. \*\* Paging Dr. Freud. Dr. Freud, to the BBQ Pit. ---
**Author:** ![flight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bbce88/32.png) [@flight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flight)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2003, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why/175433/32 "2003-05-15T19:41:21Z")
Like they say in Pulp Fiction, it would have been worth it happening just to be able to catch them doing it… ---
**Author:** ![MegaDave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/db5fbb/32.png) [@MegaDave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MegaDave)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2003, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why/175433/33 "2003-05-15T20:24:15Z")
When I was 15 I got this really cool 10 speed bike… I loved this bike, I put a soft gel seat on it, a speedometer, I totally geeked out on this bike… one day, i was riding it and stopped by a gas station for a coke and a smile came back out and some cocksucker was riding away on it… I chased him for about 5 or 6 blocks before he got away from me… ---
**Author:** ![elf6c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c57346/32.png) [@elf6c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elf6c)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2003, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why/175433/34 "2003-05-15T20:29:06Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Zebra \* > \*\*We didn’t have LPs when I was kid. We had to carry a harpischord to school. And we LIKED IT! \*\* Spoiled brat- I had to tow around a string quartet. Man were they heavy. And the spurs were not helping things either. . . ---
**Author:** ![braces\_for\_impact](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/439d5e/32.png) [@braces\_for\_impact](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/braces_for_impact)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2003, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why/175433/35 "2003-05-15T20:32:22Z")
I just bought a new grill a few weeks ago, I had used it twice. I had a late night of fun after which I went to bed at about 6 am. I woke up later that day, looked outside and some bastard ass ghetto rat stole my grill! In broad daylight! Memorial day is coming up, and everyone will be grilling that day, and I’ll have my eyes open… ---
**Author:** ![troub](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troub/32/14802_2.png) [@troub](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/troub)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2003, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why/175433/36 "2003-05-15T21:14:27Z")
No shit, **Nametag**! I love music as much as anyone else, but there’s a time and place for everything, and class is **not** the time to be listening to music. What the hell kind of schools do you fucking kids go to these days where the teachers don’t give a shit if anyone’s listening or not? You’re telling me that your keyboarding teacher has absolutely nothing to say the entire class period? I would always take something on school trips to help with a 2-4 hour bus ride, but everyday!? In class!? I have no sympathy for your soft, spoiled, whiny ass. ---
**Author:** ![Jeeves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/73ab20/32.png) [@Jeeves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeeves)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2003, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why/175433/37 "2003-05-15T21:25:34Z")
Hey, you take the walkman to school to listen to at lunch, at morning break if you have it, and on the bus ride to and from school. I honestly doubt that anybody is listening to music in class. That was why it was in his locker. Sheesh, some people. His cdplayer gets stolen from a locked locker, and you blame him for bringing it to school. And for the record, when I took keyboarding it was taught via a computer program. The teacher was only in the room to make sure that nobody stole the computers. Lots of people listened to walkmans, or used the cdplayer on the computer for music. ---
**Author:** ![tiny\_ham](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a183cd/32.png) [@tiny\_ham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tiny_ham)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2003, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why/175433/38 "2003-05-15T21:26:02Z")
First of all, I didn’t listen to it in class. I listened to it during study hall or at lunch, or while I walked home from school. But in the meantime, I kept it in my locker, and you can be damned sure I’d be pissed if someone stole it. I’m 30 years old and I can’t even go grocery shopping without my walkman. ---
**Author:** ![abbaZaba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/90ced4/32.png) [@abbaZaba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/abbaZaba)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2003, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why/175433/39 "2003-05-15T21:29:17Z")
exactly Jeeves!!! the teacher says NOTHING all class and I am forced to type in a program. incerdibly boring and the only thing that kept me going was my music…which i dont HAVE ANY MORE!! ---
**Author:** ![Encinitas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@Encinitas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Encinitas)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2003, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why/175433/40 "2003-05-15T22:19:36Z")
Heh! Back in the day I used to carry 2 rocks around and bang them together for music. Occasionally I’d wack a pig carcass with a stick for a change of tempo. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why/175433.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why/175433.md?page=3)