In the interest of telling the truth yes I have always been mad that Vin wouldn't give me my tapes back...however Vin isn't telling you the actual tape that was in teh box. Yes he had mix tapes called things like "Bad Ass Mix" and stuff like that but the tape that was in the box was Falco... Rock Me Amadeus.
True Story other than that one detail... Bizare stuff like that just happens to us.
April 30, 2008 at 12:01 PM
Anonymous said...
Not right, Mt. Cat...you totally should've given Doc his tapes back! What are friends for???
...but it is a great story!
April 30, 2008 at 12:01 PM
Anonymous said...
I don't blame you, Doc! At that age, that might've been a deal breaker for me!!
One of the tapes was this silly DJ who did a wacky sports report every morning named Spiff Dingle, I taped it every day back when I wanted nothing more than to be a DJ on the radio as a career... Vin was nice enough to burn me a CD of those (15 years after the fact)
I asked my mom about it back then and she didn't know Vin's mom of course. She claimed not to know anything about it, she said "It was a box I sold it"... Heck I was worried of what other of my stuff she sold... because the box of things she was supposed to sell was still sitting in my room...
FYI - I also wondered why we would keep the home contents tape in the house if it was going to be used if our home burned.
What was it doing in my tape box? Easy, it was a 90 minute tape (an upgrade from 60 min tapes) I had it up there ready to tape over the contents of our house with music... It wasn't supposed to be in the box either.
April 30, 2008 at 12:17 PM
Anonymous said...
mTcAT I will be joining mom in her venture this weekend...I intend to look closely at what else I might find....Are you looking for some grand Funk?
Heck I was worried of what other of my stuff she sold... because the box of things she was supposed to sell was still sitting in my room... I bet Doc, I'd have been freaking out. Mt Cat I agree with LOF, you should've returned then asap.
Mt Cat I agree with LOF, you should've returned then asap.
You obviously don't know Mt. Cat as well as I do... He refused to give them back out of sheer unadulterated stubborness. Then it ended up turning into a sort of twisted badge of honor for him. As if he had principles or something.
Oh if he had principals he'd of put himself in detention.
April 30, 2008 at 1:09 PM
Anonymous said...
It's true, Doc! You should've seen his face even yesterday when I first yelled at him...standing on his principle that he 'bought them fare and square'. Yet somehow I could see that deep down he knows it was wrong, but won't give in...
Well, now he's formally apologized to you for everybody to see...but will he return the tapes???
All y'all realize that on many an occasion, after I finish reading through all the comments, I forget what the post was about or what it was I was going to say...
I think it's hilarious that making cd's 15 years later is supposed to make up for tapes YOU STILL HAVE. Crazy story though. Doc- I can't believe your mom sold a list of everything valuable in the house to a stranger. Eek!
Jesus wouldn't be caught dead listening to Falco. - BWAAHAHAHAHAAA !!!
Doc- I can't believe your mom sold a list of everything valuable in the house to a stranger. Eek! - I never thought of it that way but true! Except it shouldn't have been sold to begin with...LOL!
Christine: your mom ia out of control....I think she is selling your father too.....Im looking around the place today in the garage and stuff...not really sure...tell me what you need and it is yours
Vin... If you had given me back those tapes the whole course of humankind may have been changed. I may have gone on to be a radio talk show host and never have met Absolut. Who knows....I am still not saying you were right in keeping them but at least I got Absolutgator out of the deal. Him and Paulie (the soap nazi) of course.
Anndi, Falco is dead. So Jesus gets to hear him live.
Vincent dear... Did we not have Easter? Jesus is risen! You're lucky the Pope didn't hear you say that, he'd have flogged you with the Pope on a Rope... or at the very least he'd sit you down in the comfy chair. ;)
Anndi, Yes this blog proves that we are not the same person because of that two different mom thingy.
and I'm supposed to believe everything on the internets?
I would have put one of his tapes in my boom box each day and called him up and said "Guess what I'm listening to?" and then held the receiver up to the speakers. ;-)
It's ok Vin... however if I had known that alls I needed to do to get my tapes back was to create a blog and find some good blog friends to have my back I would have done it years ago... LOL!
You guys have heard Doc and I comment before about how the most random and bizarre things happen to us. Well here is a good example. the following story IS true. I will use our real names as it is essential for the story.... Shane (Doc) and I (Vin, The Mountain Cat) have always been into collecting music. Back in the day before CD burners and MP3, we both would make mixed cassette tapes of our favorite tunes. When we first became friends in Charlotte back in 1989, we would sometimes borrow each others music collection. I remember one particular time in school I lent Shane one of my Bad-Assed Mixed Tapes of popular tunes. I don’t recall what songs were on it, but trust me, if I made it, it was Bad-Assed! Late morning on that Saturday, Shane and his father drove over to my house to hang out and meet my parents for the first time. They lived only a couple of miles from my house so it was convenient. Unfortunately, Shane’s mom could not come as she was running a yard sale at her home. My mom was out grocery shopping and running errands. So both our mom’s never ‘formally’ met. Shane and his dad relaxed on back porch for an hour or two and left after lunch. It was just a lazy sunny afternoon and I just relaxed around the house. My mom came home later that afternoon and called me to come to the kitchen. ‘Vin, I bought something for you’, my mom said, so I came downstairs. ‘I bought you a box of cassette tapes.’
I excitedly said thank you! I opened up the box to see about 10 various colored cassettes without their box covers. As I rummaged though the box, one of the tapes looked very familiar.
‘Mom where did you get these tapes from?’, I asked.
‘From this woman having a yard sale near Old Concord Road for three dollars.’, she replied.
‘Old Concord Road?? Shane lives around there!’ At that time I pulled out one of the tapes and it was my Bad-Assed Mixed Tape! ‘Mom, this is my tape!’ Then I pulled out another tape that had ‘S. Little’ written on it (pictured below). [Image]
'Little? That’s Shane’s last name! Mom, these are Shane’s tapes! You bought these tapes from Shane’s mom!’
She essentially bought the tape that I lent to Shane for free!We were both in shock. What are the odds? This is just too surreal.
I called Shane to tell him this incredible series of events. At first he was amazed but then he got angry. Apparently, Shane had a box of stuff in his room that he wanted his mom to sell. However, she picked up the wrong box and sold his mixed tapes instead! ‘She didn’t sell what I wanted her to sell!!’, yelled Shane.
Later than evening after the drama died down, I listed to some of my new cassettes. One was an unmarked brown tape. I put it in the tape deck and pressed play. Then I heard Shane’s mom’s voice emanate from the tape reciting: ‘In the living room we have a one couch, two lamps, a radio, a TV, Encyclopedia Britannica…..’ What the heck?
The next morning I talked to Shane on the phone and asked him about the tape his mom made. He was still fuming over our moms’ transaction and said that his mom made that tape to record the inventory of their house possessions for insurance purposes just in case there was a fire. (Of course I didn’t ask why you would keep those tapes within a burning house. But that’s a question for another time).
‘Vin, can I have those tapes back please?', Shane asked.
‘No’, I said. ‘My mom bought me these fair and square.’ I may have returned the brown inventory tape only to his mom though.
To this day both our mom’s have not met each other. Also to this day, Shane is still mad at me for not giving him his tapes back! I still have some of them. Ok, Shane, I will compromise, you can buy them off me for four dollars. What do you say? (I mean shouldn’t I make a profit?). Just kidding, Doc. In my defense I did burn several mixed CDs for Doc over the years to make up for it. Epilogue: My mom also bought this little porcelain trinket from Doc's mom that she still has: [Image]
- The Mountain Cat
posted by The Mountain Cat at 12:01 PM on Apr 30, 2008
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Close this window Jump to comment formIn the interest of telling the truth yes I have always been mad that Vin wouldn't give me my tapes back...however Vin isn't telling you the actual tape that was in teh box. Yes he had mix tapes called things like "Bad Ass Mix" and stuff like that but the tape that was in the box was Falco... Rock Me Amadeus.
True Story other than that one detail... Bizare stuff like that just happens to us.
April 30, 2008 at 12:01 PM
Not right, Mt. Cat...you totally should've given Doc his tapes back! What are friends for???
...but it is a great story!
April 30, 2008 at 12:01 PM
I don't blame you, Doc! At that age, that might've been a deal breaker for me!!
April 30, 2008 at 12:03 PM
Did you all read the whole article???
....I did burn several mixed CDs for Doc over the years to make up for it. LOL
April 30, 2008 at 12:05 PM
Yeah, I read that...and??? Not the point at all...a good friend would do that anyway! Bad kitty!!!
LOL!!!
April 30, 2008 at 12:06 PM
One of the tapes was this silly DJ who did a wacky sports report every morning named Spiff Dingle, I taped it every day back when I wanted nothing more than to be a DJ on the radio as a career... Vin was nice enough to burn me a CD of those (15 years after the fact)
April 30, 2008 at 12:07 PM
I asked my mom about it back then and she didn't know Vin's mom of course. She claimed not to know anything about it, she said "It was a box I sold it"... Heck I was worried of what other of my stuff she sold... because the box of things she was supposed to sell was still sitting in my room...
April 30, 2008 at 12:10 PM
I'm very concerned about Falco!
April 30, 2008 at 12:14 PM
Our mother has found some fascinating (and valuable) items at yard sales! Vince, that's a great story!
April 30, 2008 at 12:14 PM
The guilt overcame him, I guess...LOL!
April 30, 2008 at 12:14 PM
Sis, and mom is having a yard sale this weekend. Doc, ask your mom if she wants to fly to New Jersey to buy some stuff.
April 30, 2008 at 12:17 PM
FYI - I also wondered why we would keep the home contents tape in the house if it was going to be used if our home burned.
What was it doing in my tape box? Easy, it was a 90 minute tape (an upgrade from 60 min tapes) I had it up there ready to tape over the contents of our house with music... It wasn't supposed to be in the box either.
April 30, 2008 at 12:17 PM
mTcAT
I will be joining mom in her venture this weekend...I intend to look closely at what else I might find....Are you looking for some grand Funk?
April 30, 2008 at 12:23 PM
Pat, Please make sure my mom doesn't sell a big box of rock records that she 'claims' she can't find in the abyss she calls her house!
April 30, 2008 at 12:28 PM
That's funny!
I'm an avid yard sale-er(?) and I can tell you for a fact that a box of cassette tapes today would probably be marked FREE! *giggle*
Mt Cat, you suck for not giving them back, or at least making copies of them!
Falco was/is awesome! I have 'Rock Me Amadeus' on one of my "mixed cd's"!!
April 30, 2008 at 12:33 PM
you got it....If I see it I will take it and run....arent you coming..you may find some sweet stuff for the new pad......
April 30, 2008 at 12:34 PM
Doc, I formally apologize to you. Please forgive me.
Pat I may drive down.
April 30, 2008 at 12:39 PM
Yeah Vin are you going to the yardsale??? ONLY with MY help will you get there buddy.... Think about it.. LOL!
April 30, 2008 at 12:41 PM
Heck I was worried of what other of my stuff she sold... because the box of things she was supposed to sell was still sitting in my room... I bet Doc, I'd have been freaking out. Mt Cat I agree with LOF, you should've returned then asap.
April 30, 2008 at 12:49 PM
Mt Cat I agree with LOF, you should've returned then asap.
You obviously don't know Mt. Cat as well as I do... He refused to give them back out of sheer unadulterated stubborness. Then it ended up turning into a sort of twisted badge of honor for him. As if he had principles or something.
April 30, 2008 at 12:54 PM
Mt. Cat - you should have given those tapes back! Meanie.
Very funny stuff.
April 30, 2008 at 12:56 PM
AHAHAHHA
April 30, 2008 at 12:57 PM
Yeah Vin are you going to the yardsale??? ONLY with MY help will you get there buddy.... Think about it.. LOL!
I don't get it?
April 30, 2008 at 1:05 PM
I think I just peed my pants. That's hilarious!
April 30, 2008 at 1:05 PM
Pat: What are you and Mom selling? I better call and get first dibs!
April 30, 2008 at 1:09 PM
Oh if he had principals he'd of put himself in detention.
April 30, 2008 at 1:09 PM
It's true, Doc! You should've seen his face even yesterday when I first yelled at him...standing on his principle that he 'bought them fare and square'. Yet somehow I could see that deep down he knows it was wrong, but won't give in...
Well, now he's formally apologized to you for everybody to see...but will he return the tapes???
LOL!
April 30, 2008 at 1:10 PM
Whatever happened to the old saying that once someone admits they are wrong they are immediately forgiven? What would Jesus do?
April 30, 2008 at 1:11 PM
Jesus would have given me my tapes back in the first place!
April 30, 2008 at 1:19 PM
And as far as how you are going to get to the yardsale....What are you going to be driving to get there ??
April 30, 2008 at 1:20 PM
Jesus wouldn't be caught dead listening to Falco.
April 30, 2008 at 1:31 PM
All y'all realize that on many an occasion, after I finish reading through all the comments, I forget what the post was about or what it was I was going to say...
April 30, 2008 at 1:32 PM
LOL. "What would Jesus do"???????
You are a freak!
April 30, 2008 at 1:33 PM
i read the part that your mom's have never met... what? aren't you BEST Friends? Did i read that right... let me go check.
*giggles* at Leighann. People wouldn't even take the tapes these days at a yard sale even if they were marked FREE!
April 30, 2008 at 1:33 PM
I think it's hilarious that making cd's 15 years later is supposed to make up for tapes YOU STILL HAVE. Crazy story though.
Doc- I can't believe your mom sold a list of everything valuable in the house to a stranger. Eek!
April 30, 2008 at 1:33 PM
Was this supposed to prove you aren't one and the same?
April 30, 2008 at 1:35 PM
What would Jesus do?
Strike you down with a brilliant bolt lightening for being a shmuck.
April 30, 2008 at 1:44 PM
Jesus wouldn't be caught dead listening to Falco. - BWAAHAHAHAHAAA !!!
Doc- I can't believe your mom sold a list of everything valuable in the house to a stranger. Eek! - I never thought of it that way but true! Except it shouldn't have been sold to begin with...LOL!
April 30, 2008 at 1:44 PM
Doc, Ok NOW I understand. I can still take a train though
:)~
Anndi, Falco is dead. So Jesus gets to hear him live.
April 30, 2008 at 1:51 PM
Is that little porceline trinket Elvis??
April 30, 2008 at 1:55 PM
Christine:
your mom ia out of control....I think she is selling your father too.....Im looking around the place today in the garage and stuff...not really sure...tell me what you need and it is yours
April 30, 2008 at 1:56 PM
Leighann, Not Elvis but it is cute. I think he's a hobo.
Pat, You are right. I did notice that tattoo my dad has on his forearm that says '$9.99'.
April 30, 2008 at 2:02 PM
I think the trinket is a sailor. Was anyone in your family in the navy?
April 30, 2008 at 2:04 PM
Anndi, Yes this blog proves that we are not the same person because of that two different mom thingy.
April 30, 2008 at 2:07 PM
Lu',
My dad was in the Army. But I have a couple of cousins who may have 'hung around' with the Navy. LOL
April 30, 2008 at 2:08 PM
Maybe your mom/moms has a dual personality and she bought the tapes from herself, hmmmm.
April 30, 2008 at 2:09 PM
A hobo?? He's a sailor you twerp! :p
April 30, 2008 at 2:10 PM
Hey watch it my dad was in the Navy....
wait, nevermind.
April 30, 2008 at 2:10 PM
Is that little porceline trinket Elvis??
Not Elvis or a Hobo... It's a sailor possibly from Old Spice aftershave.
April 30, 2008 at 2:10 PM
I'd like to be clear on this:
Spiff Dingle tapes into a single Spiff Dingle CD repaired the friendship 15 years later?
April 30, 2008 at 2:12 PM
Mic what's a spiff dingle or who is a spiff dingle?
April 30, 2008 at 2:14 PM
I've heard of dingle berries but then we'd be talking about Dana's blog.
April 30, 2008 at 2:15 PM
Lu- He's an idol of Docs!
April 30, 2008 at 2:20 PM
Oh, that's another name for Yo Gabba Gabba?
April 30, 2008 at 2:21 PM
ROTFL !!
SPIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIF DINGLE SPORTS !!!
(and no Mic that part of our relationship has and never will be healed...there is a permanent fissure there)
April 30, 2008 at 2:28 PM
Yeah Doc, If I gave you those tapes back I would have been your only best man and did not have to share the title with Absolutgator!
April 30, 2008 at 2:34 PM
OMG, what are the chances that your mom would buy them from his mom! That's hilarious!!
April 30, 2008 at 2:36 PM
Vin... If you had given me back those tapes the whole course of humankind may have been changed. I may have gone on to be a radio talk show host and never have met Absolut. Who knows....I am still not saying you were right in keeping them but at least I got Absolutgator out of the deal. Him and Paulie (the soap nazi) of course.
Hey DPH... whassssup?
April 30, 2008 at 2:53 PM
Hi Doc! I have to go power walking because I'm a huge bag o' douche...I hate power walking...
April 30, 2008 at 2:58 PM
Anndi, Falco is dead. So Jesus gets to hear him live.
Vincent dear... Did we not have Easter? Jesus is risen! You're lucky the Pope didn't hear you say that, he'd have flogged you with the Pope on a Rope... or at the very least he'd sit you down in the comfy chair. ;)
Anndi, Yes this blog proves that we are not the same person because of that two different mom thingy.
and I'm supposed to believe everything on the internets?
April 30, 2008 at 3:03 PM
Maybe your mom/moms has a dual personality and she bought the tapes from herself, hmmmm.
what she said....
April 30, 2008 at 3:06 PM
I like Anndi's way of thinking...
April 30, 2008 at 3:10 PM
Ya know, that is just WRONG in so many ways. I would have given them back, or at least copied them! What kind of friend are you!!!!! LOL
But man oh man, what are the freaking odds on that??
April 30, 2008 at 3:21 PM
I like Anndi's way of thinking...
smooch
April 30, 2008 at 3:23 PM
I would have put one of his tapes in my boom box each day and called him up and said "Guess what I'm listening to?" and then held the receiver up to the speakers. ;-)
April 30, 2008 at 3:57 PM
Jay is evil...I like it.
I'm thinking his Mom sold those on purpose to help out his street cred.
April 30, 2008 at 4:04 PM
LOL @ Jay!
April 30, 2008 at 4:35 PM
How funny is that....Love the post !
April 30, 2008 at 10:01 PM
Thanks everyone for your comments. More crazy storys to come. Stay tuned....
April 30, 2008 at 11:57 PM
Amen!
May 1, 2008 at 12:26 AM
is it thursday yet? ;)~
May 1, 2008 at 12:31 AM
lol @ Jahooni.. It is over here..
May 1, 2008 at 12:37 AM
By the way Mt. Cat maybe you could give Doc 1 tape?
May 1, 2008 at 12:40 AM
Lesley... He ain't never giving any tapes up...
May 1, 2008 at 5:36 AM
I feel aweful now. *sob*
May 1, 2008 at 6:57 AM
Well, gee! Sorry I missed this whole conversation yesterday.
TMC--Give back the tapes! Bow to the masses.
Doc--I feel so sorry for the traumatized boy who lost his mixed tape collection. It obviously haunts you to this day.
May 1, 2008 at 8:56 AM
It's ok Vin... however if I had known that alls I needed to do to get my tapes back was to create a blog and find some good blog friends to have my back I would have done it years ago... LOL!
May 1, 2008 at 9:07 AM
I love random events like this! Great story!
May 5, 2008 at 8:42 PM