Monday, November 27, 2023

Misreading

On NBC Nightly News tonight, these words appeared next to an image of shallow boxes in stacks:

RECORD
BUYING
BINGE
And my first thought — honest — was of LPs.

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comments: 4

ksh said...

An honest mistake. Friday was Autumn Record Store Day and reading your post, I had the same thought as you.

Michael Leddy said...

I didn’t know about ASRD. But it’s maybe just as well.

I’m going to add the word shallow in front of boxes. They were indeed shallow boxes, which made record-buying all the more plausible.

Fresca said...

I read it that way too—
working in thrift, I do see a lot of records.

Michael Leddy said...

Oops — ARSD. And I’m remembering the feeling a stack of new LPs under one arm.

And maybe I should retitle this post “Reading.”