RIP Toshiba DVD Player

In December 2002, my dear friend, Darcy, moved out of Autumn Winds #304. I was devastated (still kind of am... before I got married, I lived with her longer than I'd lived with anyone else outside of my family). When Darcy left she took her fabulous DVD player with her, even though she kindly left the red shag carpet and our restaurant booth (another post for another day).

In January 2003, therefore, I was FORCED out of sheer necessity to buy my Toshiba DVD player. The batteries in the controller never went bad. I'm not kidding. Eight years later and hundreds of DVDS later, those babies are still ticking! The DVD player, however, is not. It started skipping and wouldn't play DVDs properly 15 months ago.

Even though we got a new DVD player for Christmas December 2009, I could NOT get rid of this DVD player that held so many memories for me. It was one of the first electronic devices I ever purchased for myself. I watched hundreds of DVDs with good friends, lovers, roommates, and even complete strangers using this Toshiba DVD player. It was with me throughout a majority of my college days and beyond. Memories were made with this little DVD player. So, I kept determined to keep it even if it skipped through DVDs and wouldn't play them properly. I refused to give it up and would glance at it every time I had to get the vacuum out of the storage closet.

Well, it's taken me 15 months, but I finally bit the bullet and pulled the broken DVD player out of the closet. I prepared it to get rid it. I had the remote and everything. But then, I found I couldn't. Afraid I would get it out of the garbage, I put it outside and told Evan that he had to get rid of it without me knowing. Talk about sentimental for a stupid hunk of metal!

So, RIP Toshiba DVD player. You were good to me for a long time. We have a lot of memories. But, my SONY DVD player has replaced you. You'll always hold a special place in my heart.