Could you take a gander at this Sony Walkman?
I had that exact Walkman during my teen years and used it to effectively block out my parents’ endless prattle during car trips and family vacations. It was the iPod of my day, and I was hot stuff with this Walkman.
Not only was my cassette player a Sony, but it was YELLOW! I festooned my portable tape player with stickers and took it everywhere. I always carried spare batteries (remember those days?!?!) and had a collection of mixed tapes for every mood and occasion. Who needed play lists back in the 80s? Not me!
Now here’s the sad part of my fond recollection. I had this Walkman up until a few short years ago–I vividly remember examining the stickers and showing it to Husban-dito–but when I went to find it a few months back, it was GONE. The weird thing is that I usually am pretty good with my belongings. I can count on one hand the items of value I’ve lost in my lifetime.
How did I lose this Walkman? I managed to hold onto it during my teen years and beyond only to lose it as an adult. The irony doesn’t escape me, but I still want my yellow Walkman to turn up. Maybe if I stop looking for it, it will pop up in an unlikely place.
Have you ever lost anything that you’d love to be reunited with (minds, money, and youth not withstanding)?
I had a similar Walkman when I was young. The thing lasted me more than ten years before the motor went and it couldn’t spin the spools of the tape at the correct speed anymore. But I will say this, that Sony Walkman was better than my iPod because as of today, Apple has yet to learn how to build an earphone jack that actually works properly.
And that is exactly why my next purchase will be for the new Sony Walkman (plays mp3s and stuff like that.)
ppfffttt, I’m better at listing things I HAVEN’T lost.
I lost my first iPod and I thought I could do without it. I couldn’t believe how sad I was that I didn’t have it. I didn’t even listen to it on a daily basis, but when I needed it, it was there.
After deciding that it was gone for good, the hubby encouraged me to buy a new one, though I felt like I was betraying the other one. Crazy, right? But he said it was OK to upgrade. The old one had been running slowly and that iPod touch came out…. So I bought the iPod touch…. and a couple of months later, my co-worker found my other iPod in a back room where I thought I had thoroughly looked for it.
My “stuff” is not lost…it is in a safe place…I just don’t remember the safe place…my kids always asked me if I put stuff in the safe place…little buggers.
Oh, the Walkman… when I was all decked out and ready to enjoy music circa 1995, they were still around — and I adored mine until I got my first Discman for Christmas when I turned 12! And it was awesome. Totally remember carting spare AA batteries around with me everywhere I went. Even in the day of the iPod (and I own three… pathetic, yes, but three — all working), I sometimes forget I don’t need batteries at all. Just the wall charger I always seem to forget on vacations.
For me, I’d love to be reunited with a sock monkey my mom made for me when I was a kid… he went on our family vacation to Miami only to never return. I have no clue what happened to him, because I literally never put him down. I was around nine, I think, and we rented a convertible on the trip. My only thought was that he was accidentally tossed from the moving vehicle? But how would that happen? It’s just a Meg Life Mystery.
Unless stolen at one of your parties, I’m sure walkman will show up eventually. Maybe he’s just on an extended vacation w/ your legwarmers and old chucks. Perhaps they were invited to join nintendo & the betamax vcr on a love boat cruise?
mwa ha ha. maybe it’s out in the garage with the ATARI game system of my childhood.
When I ‘lose’ something, and appeal to my long-suffering wife for help, the only help I get is the usual question….’Where did you see it last?’…………now….what help is that?
I still have a Walkman–though it’s not my first one (I don’t remember what happened to it). This one, that I got in the early 90′s, has digital tuning, and programmable frequency selections. I used to use it when walking, but found after a while that I didn’t need one (songs play in my head all the time, especially when hyped up from walking or caffeine). And the most memorable moment with this one was in 1996. I hunted deer then, and was sitting in my shooting-house, overlooking the field plot. Deer have extremely good hearing, and sense of smell–both far superior to those of humans–they are not the “defenseless little animals” so many people think they are. So it was amazing that they couldn’t hear my Walkman, even against my ears. But they couldn’t. I was playing Beethoven’s 7th Sympony on cassette when a spike (a buck with two antler-points) appeared. But just as I aimed my rifle, a four-point appeared (a buck with four antler-points). So I shot it. Then the spike jerked upward at the sound, and I shot it too. I bagged two deer in less than a minute, while Beethoven’s 7th continued playing on my Walkman! (And being an ethical hunter, I ate both deer, with my family.)
Anyway, as to your excellent question, I’d definitely want to be reunited with the youth I’ve lost–provided I’d retain the knowledge and memory of my adulthood!