The Bygone Days of Cassette players

The other day I was driving my husband’s car for the day since my own car was in the garage getting fixed. I stopped to refuel it with gas and since in Kuwait women don’t get out of the car to fill their car tanks up and my iPhone’s battery was dead I had nothing better to do to kill time but gaze at the dashboard of the car. The car I was driving was the first car I paid for myself from my own salary and even though it wasn’t that old, it arrived in the days before the iPod invention therefore it had a cassette player -and a CD player changer thing in the trunk-.

I remembered how it felt to stuff your car with endless cassettes that kept falling or sliding everywhere, and how if you wanted to listed to a song you had to physically move through the songs one by one to reach the particular song you wanted. I also remember how unfortunate it would’ve been to somehow have the inner tape of the cassette player get out into a mess, and then using our fingers or a pic ink pen we would try to wind the tape back in! When that happened it always reminded me of spaghetti for some reason.

I wondered if my iPhone would fit inside the cassette tape player slot and to my surprise it did. Now we carry around phones that could hold hundreds of songs and do a million other things, all in the size of one cassette player and it wasn’t that long ago! I wonder if, in five year’s time, we would look at the iPhone and think wow that was bulky and slow.

Since the car didn’t have bluetooth enabled or an AV outlet thing, I presume somehow there is some kind of adapter sold somewhere that I could use with my iPhone to enable the songs to be played using a cassette player in the car. Perhaps a blank cassette attached to the iPhone specifically for that purpose? Looks like a shopping trip to a nearby Mac shop is in order. I love how trying to kill time by thinking turned into a shopping project, I should try thinking that way more often.