[epbrown]

I can't be the only person this has happened to: you've got a long drive ahead of you, thru tons of areas with no radio reception, and discover you've got one CD in the car you had to play ad infinitum. What was it?

For me, there are two: when I started as a delivery driver for Domino's Pizza one of the delivery vehicles had no radio, just an 8-track with ONE tape: AC/DC's "Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap." Night after night of 8-hour shifts permanently ingrained the song list, despite the many nights I opted to listen to just road noise. No one ever admitted supplying the tape, and none of us ever tracked down something else to listen to since 8-track was long gone.

When I movd to Chicago, I loaded up the car with all my belongings and forgot my briefcase (remember those) of cassettes. There was only one tape in the car for the 8-hour drive - Hall and Oate's "H2O." Worse, when I had a free weekend, I drove home to get my cassettes, enduring another 8 hours of it, only to discover my younger brother had jacked all my cassettes ("You left'em, I figured you didn't want'em anymore!"). Since we had vastly different tastes, he'd distributed them among his friends - none could be recovered. Another 8 hours back to Chicago with Darryl and Jon. I didn't listen to that album for another 20 years.