English teacher caught me doing this, confiscated my walkman, told me to come by when the day was done to get it back. Came back and he was rocking out with his own headphones, said I had good taste, but not to let it happen again. (The best of 3 dog night), hallway home the batteries died, I was prideful and upset the rest of the walk home.
That sounds like a cool teacher
This explains why so many of y’all didn’t learn anything in school.
And we wonder why teachers want to ban phones in classrooms
Dunno why people keep saying this like it’s a new thing lmao, since phones have become popular even in the flip phone days teachers and schools have or tried to ban them.
It doesn’t work, it never works, kids will always find a way to sneak them in lmaooo
Doesn’t mean one should give up and do nothing.
I guess they could collect them at the start of the class. I’m sure some people would bring in “decoy phones” but whatever, it would still cut down on interruptions.
As someone with next to zero attention span it baffled me when I learned other actual make the choice not too.
I’m learning more put of school than I did in school
Right now I’m learning japanese and how to draw
What’s an iPod grandpa?
It’s like a small CD player.
What’s a CD grandpa?
It’s like your walkman, but spinny and shiny instead of twisty and tapey.
It’s like a smaller, slightly more convenient walkman
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I would argue a Diskman was decidedly LESS convenient than a Walkman—sure it had neat “skip” functions but god—optical disks are probably one of the worst media formats to have ever been created. (Maybe—just maybe—from a functional standpoint MiniDisk was okay, at best)
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Hah gottem
I miss iPods. It would be nice to have a tiny device to use with Bluetooth headphones during workouts and running so that I don’t have to carry around my phone.
A smartwatch could probably fill that function, but they’re so expensive because of all the health crap they load them up with.
I used to use one of these before they were Bluetooth. Tiny and clips to your clothes.
New guide:
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Put in Bluetooth earbud
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Listen to music
It only works if you have the hair long enough to cover them, and even then, it would be easier to detect it and smart teachers would ask the students to remove the hair from the ears… Heck, in my school days it wasn’t even allowed to have the hair long enough to cover them lol.
was that just a rule for guys or did it apply to girls too?
Maybe OP went to an all-male school.
Guys only.
why am I not surprised
You just turn on Bluetooth and look for active devices.
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I used to do the secret service version. Cables runs through your back and have it go over your ear. I had a fro so teachers couldn’t see my cable or earphones.
Long hair; didn’t even have to try and hide it.
This was my version too. No fro, but longer hair.
CD player or iPod would be in a back or side pocket.
That’s why I wore a hoodie. Had the headphones in the seam of the hood
Similar - I had a big interior pocket and I ran the cord through the lining and into the space where my roll-up hood should have been. Except that I’d cut away most of it such that my crappy walkman-knockoff headphones (broken off from their frame) were inside each tip of the collar, right next to my ears.
I rarely used it in class and when I did I kept the volume really low and smashed it to my ear similar to the pic. Mostly I think I was just a teenager and wanted to feel like I was getting away with something, I think.
I just did the thing where you drink vodka in the parking lot with the Polish kids at lunch so you don’t care about having to sit through class.
God I’m old.
I hear you brother. Well, I read you. I can’t hear for shit
Cut a hole in your hoodie pocket to run the wire out and keep the MP3/ cd player in there and that’s what got me through almost all of hs.
Yeah music is cool but you should try doing well in school. What other longterm objectives could you possibly have while living with your parents?
What makes you assume children (want to) have long term objectives?
Everybody wants to. Not everybody is in a position where they think they can.
If you don’t want to, you’re forced to anyways
Lmao, no, unfortunately schools do not have a 100% graduation rate. You can’t just slide by and get a good result, though that would be nice in a more perfect world.
20 years ago when I was in high school we didn’t really care about listening to music because you had to be rich to own a Walkman
I think you mean 40 years ago. 20 years ago was 2003, 2 years after the iPod came out. Walkman hit the market in 1979.
And then in the 00s MP3 players were so cheap I had three just from finding them on the ground.
Just have your test answers narrated and use the buttons on the headphones to go to the next answer
I remember seeing this when it was relevant to me at like 12 years old and doing it way more than I should’ve. Oops
Can’t stand ear buds.
