While sorting through some papers on my desk I found a hub from the interior of a cassette tape.
It’s the white thing with the teeth on the right side of this photo:
You have to take apart the shell of a cassette tape to get a hub out. And usually the tape itself is bonded to the hub, although it peels off easily.
It’s the part that, in the before times, once in a while you’d need to slide a pencil through to re-tighten the tape.
I’ll admit to once have about 500 tapes. And to having opened them up to fix playability problems with them.
But the last player in occasional use left out household in 2008. I still have a tape deck, but it hasn’t been used since I digitized all my rare tapes and through out the rest about 15 years ago.
Yes, I have found a few tapes lying around the house since then that I don’t have the heart to throw away.
I’ll also admit to generally having a messy desk, but it went through a clear the desk top and wipe it down cleaning just a couple of weeks ago … and really not much has piled up since then.
So where the f**k did a tape hub come from??
If it isn’t a glitch in the matrix, my next best theory is that it escaped years ago, and has been happily living on the ceiling these many years, waiting to drop onto my desk when the time was right.
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