An interesting statistic...

[KaeZoo]

...from my completely informal research.

Approximately 50% of all factory cassette players I remove from mini-vans jingle when I shake them. For Dodge Caravans, the ratio climbs to 70%.

In such cases, it's my duty to inform Soccer Mom that her new CD player will probably look like a penny bank to the kids, too.

[digilight]

For some reason this stat cracked me up....thank god i wasn't violating rule #1.

[BrassCowboy]

Who are these dumbass kids who put coinage in the cassette deck?

[thegiraffe]

Before we got the new touch-screen registers at work (yay!), ALL of the keyboards would jingle because of random change that had made its way down there. That was IT's #1 complaint. I guess it made keys short out or whatever. It was always slightly satisfying though to pick a keyboard up and shake it...to hear it make that nose. It was like "ok cool....these things DO have screws loose!"

I know, I'm strange.

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

Before we got the new touch-screen registers at work (yay!), ALL of the keyboards would jingle because of random change that had made its way down there. That was IT's #1 complaint. I guess it made keys short out or whatever. It was always slightly satisfying though to pick a keyboard up and shake it...to hear it make that nose. It was like "ok cool....these things DO have screws loose!"

I know, I'm strange.

When we got our new registers this last August, I got the job of going around and taking apart all the old registers and separating the parts that were going to be salvaged from the parts that were going to be thrown away.

Good Lord, those things had about 20 years of dust accumulated in them? No change unfortunately. But it was satisfying to throw all the discarded parts into the trash and smash them against the wall of the compactor.

Any day at work where I get to destroy things and get paid for it is a good day for me.

[AFpheonix]

Who are these dumbass kids who put coinage in the cassette deck?

Probably the same ones that smoosh their PBJ sandwiches into the VCR....