How do I work the radio?
Driving home today I had a shocking experience. I don’t have any audio books on cd in my car because I’d rented 2 short ones in a row and one of them was really bad so I returned them together. And my mp3 player’s battery ran out because I leave it in the car and it was really cold today. That’s my assumption anyway, because otherwise I’d have to assume that Apple’s batteries are really poorly designed. (That’s sarcasm folks).
I tried staring out the window for a while, but I quickly got bored. No passenger to talk to. I thought of maybe calling someone on my phone, but it was 11pm eastern time, and I couldn’t think of anyone on the west coast I really wanted to talk to.
Out of sheer boredom I started looking at my instrument panel, and lo and behold, there’s a radio! I never noticed it before. Both FM AND AM! I bet I paid extra for that. I remember something called talk radio, so I dialed in to the top station on the AM dial (I mean touchscreen pushbutton thingy, not dial) and started happily listening to newsradio. But I must have done something wrong because the sound quality was really bad and I swear they kept repeating the same news stories over and over.
I tried hitting the FM button, but it was just music I didn’t like. Apparently this radio thing has gotten really hard to use. I’m sure I would have liked it if I could have figured out how to use it. It sure was simpler in the old days. Only 2 stations, both on the AM dial, one was country and the other was rock. Back then radio was great and I didn’t need audiobooks.
Or maybe audio books have spoiled me.
January 18th, 2007 at 12:20 am
[...] My family has grown so accustomed to listening to our MP3 players, either as a family or individually, when we get in the car, we rarely turn on the radio. Heck, even the CD player is getting only occasional use (none at all from me, actually). Seems that Sanjay from The Simply Audio blog is having the same experience. An excerpt from the post: Out of sheer boredom I started looking at my instrument panel, and lo and behold, there’s a radio! I never noticed it before. Both FM AND AM! I bet I paid extra for that. I remember something called talk radio, so I dialed in to the top station on the AM dial (I mean touchscreen pushbutton thingy, not dial) and started happily listening to newsradio. But I must have done something wrong because the sound quality was really bad and I swear they kept repeating the same news stories over and over. [...]
January 23rd, 2007 at 3:31 pm
I have the same problem with the radio. The news keeps repeating and the songs are never the ones I want to hear. I have a routine now, I listen to 10 min of news and traffic reporting, then switch to my audiobook. Much better!
January 24th, 2007 at 12:34 am
You’re right. I just had a 15 minute ride in my car, and managed to get 10 minutes of newsradio in before I wanted to drive to the station and thrust the days paper in the face of the staff, screaming “Here! It’s easy! Look… neeeewwws! Hours of it, knock yourselves out.” But the 10 minutes was good
February 7th, 2007 at 6:33 pm
I can no longer listen to the radio. I can tolerate some NPR, but I’m just miserable if there are no audiobooks in the car. I have been, on occasion, driven to purchase them because my timing was bad on returning/receiving. I get very cranky when I’m not listening to an audiobook in the car!
August 18th, 2007 at 2:12 am
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