Oh man, that's a classic. Just found a box of my own old disks and half of them are completely unreadable now. The plastic feels weird and brittle, too.

Had a venue manager lock the walk-in fridge for a "private event" once... lost 150 hydrangeas that were supposed to be for a Friday morning install. My backup now is a short list of retired florists who still grow in their backyards, they saved me with cash and a truck bed full of blooms.

My buddy had this old truck, the radio only picked up one station clearly. It was just static and farm reports for a whole summer. We'd drive around listening to grain prices because it was that or nothing. He finally got a tape deck adapter, felt like we'd reached the future.