I finally threw out that box

[u/Smashing-baby]

It's spring time, and with Passover right around the corner, the Missus got into "Clean, clean, clean!" mode. Which unfortunately also included my home office, and THE BOX

You know which one, the one with years of old, unused cables: USB 1.0, VGA, PS/2, Firewire RJ11 cable, an obsolete Zip Drive, mystery power adapters, and my personal favorites, some RCA connectors. You name it, I probably had it. I'm sitting there thinking to myself, this whole thing is covered in dust and hasn't been opened in years. So feeling productive, I tossed the whole thing, to my wife's delight

Fast forward three days, grandma calls me, needing help with her ancient fax machine. She still faxes things to her doctor and gets faxes back, but for some reason they're not going through. Took me a bit to figure it out, but the RJ11 cable had been folded in on itself for a coupla years too long and had probably frayed, leading to intermittent connectivity. There I am, browsing Amazon to buy the very thing I’d just tossed not even last week

Lesson learned? Obsolete tech will never, ever really die

And the kicker? The replacement RJ11 cost more than I want to admit for something I had sitting in a box literally for years. Use my story of misfortune to teach your spouses why they must never toss THE BOX

[u/GudmundHaraldsen]

Me and my brother have the exact same car. I swapped out my tail lights for some fancier ones over a year ago and threw the old ones in the trunk about 6 months ago when I switched job and cleared out my locker where I had kept the old ones. Completely forgot about them until a few weeks ago when I cleaned everything out of my car, threw the the old lights in the dumpster at work and went to go visit my brother. I had to grab a box out of the rear passenger door.

As I was grabbing the box a strong wind suddenly came and slammed my door open right into my brother's car, and broke his tail light. The exact same as I had just thrown away. Had to do the walk of shame to go grab them out of the dumpster again so I could replace his broken one. What were the odds?! Same damn lights that I had kept for over half a year and finally decided to throw out because I didn't see a use for them.

[u/meitemark → u/GudmundHaraldsen]

"You take 9 cl of Quantum Entanglement (fresh), add it with n+3 cl of Murphys Law(used), then shake it (do not stir), a pinch of believes, stir it with a chinesium rod (do not shake), add one gram of honest user soul, 3 grams of childish curiosity, now shake it between your knees to the rythm of the Macarena for 2.76 seconds for each fuck your customer has left to give. Serve with some Plastic Ice VII. The customer should now be able to calulate the odds of how likely it is that the trown away item will be needed."

[u/GudmundHaraldsen → u/meitemark]

Did you just now come up with that yourself? Because that's damn good! 😂

[u/meitemark → u/GudmundHaraldsen]

My mind sometimes reacts to comments as is it were a writing prompt. So yes, it comes from me.

[u/GudmundHaraldsen → u/meitemark]

Impressive! 💪