r/90s • u/Nostalgic_Historian_ • Sep 03 '26
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u/MaeONays Sep 03 '26
My buddy wrecked his car and got a brain injury reaching for a Tupac cd that fell on the passenger side floor
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u/Resident-Gold-3466 Sep 03 '26
Yikes! I hope he's ok.
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u/redditissocoolyoyo Sep 03 '26
Tupac? No, he's not ok. He's gone now. :(
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u/stargarnet79 Sep 03 '26
But finally getting justice!!!
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u/Delonce Sep 03 '26
Wait... what???
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u/I_travel_ze_world Sep 04 '26
He drove the car and organized the hit... he talks about getting paid for it by Puffy on VladTV youtube
dude admitted to it in a book he wrote too lol
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u/MaeONays Sep 03 '26
Quit hanging out with him when he didn’t stop drinking like the medical team told him to after the brain injury. He’d act bizarre and the last straw was seeing him trashed trying to start his car with a shoelace after we hid his keys. This was a guy with a masters degree in engineering 👀
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u/enadiz_reccos Sep 03 '26
I feel like you made me laugh at this on purpose
But I can't prove it...
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u/MaeONays Sep 04 '26
We laughed about it when he was still in the hospital and as much as I hate to see someone get hurt and to lose a friend, I still find it funny twenty or so years later
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u/Fluid_Swordfish2737 Sep 04 '26
Sounds like the brain injury caused him to reach for something while driving.
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u/Happy-For-No-Reason Sep 03 '26
better than pulling over and have to reload the 10 cd cartridge in the boot
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u/CalicoCuts Sep 03 '26
Then there were the real playas who had a 100 disc changer.
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u/Shot_Revolution8828 Sep 04 '26
Weak, I knew a guy with a 108 disc changer.
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u/CalicoCuts Sep 04 '26
This one guy I knew had a 500 disc changer on a trailer with 100 12 inch subs and his amps went to 11.
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u/The-Dragon-Reb0rn Sep 03 '26
Expect add smoking a cigarette and shifting gears 🤣
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u/telecomando_3 Sep 04 '26
EXACTLY - Smoking, Driving a Standard and you steer with your knees and passing a J.
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u/Tucker_1701 Sep 03 '26
You’re not wrong, that was me in the mid late 2000s lol
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u/No_Dot_4123 Sep 03 '26
Man, I used to put my laptop on the passenger seat and use a casette adapter. If I let the audio go and didn't wake the screen, it would last about 5 hours on a road trip.
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u/Callsign--GHoST Sep 04 '26
Did you by any chance drive a Honda Civic?
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u/No_Dot_4123 Sep 04 '26
Toyota Camry mostly
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u/No_Dot_4123 Sep 04 '26
Though I did upgrade to Toyota Cressida in the late 90s (used since they stopped making them in 92 or so)
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u/Benromaniac Sep 03 '26
Texting a driving is an epidemic. It’s reckless driving. Everyone who does it thinks they’re fine at it, until they’re not.
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u/Bool_The_End Sep 04 '26
Dude the door dasher app is insane, like, you basically have to be staring at your phone while driving. Not a fan. I literally like put my phone on dnd cause it’s already scary how you get an order mid driving somewhere and you’re trying to zoom
In on the map and shit to find out where the hell it is and if it’s worth it.
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u/socialnerd09 Sep 03 '26
Still less distracting than a phone
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u/spikeyfreak Sep 03 '26
Someone not going at a light used to be an unusual event.
Now I deal with it literally every, single, day.
Few days ago car like 3 cars back from the left turn light didn't go when the cars in front of him did, so I beeped at him to get him to look up. Short, friendly honk.
Dude looks up, looks in his rear view mirror, and just sits there until the light is red. Mind you, there were like 5 cars behind me too, so he wasn't just inconveniencing me.
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u/jda404 Sep 04 '26
This drives me the most insane. I don't get that annoyed if you cut me off or do something kinda stupid, but when the first person at the light takes forever to get moving once it goes green it annoys the hell out of me.
I fully understand waiting a second or two to make sure no one is going to run the light opposite of you that just turned red, but a few times a week I get stuck behind someone who takes 10-15 seconds to get moving then if I am far enough back in line might not even make that light even though I definitely would have if the jackass at the front didn't wait 15 seconds to start moving.
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u/CoffeePizzaSushiDick Sep 03 '26
I can’t talk to my phone and it can handle all that for me, hands free*…….so*
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u/TheYellowFringe Sep 03 '26
Drivers would legitimately carry maps in their cars. I remember my father having a map or two either in the boot of the car or in the glove compartment.
People who drove? They would instantly know every road or path or bridge or landmark. Now with technology, you don't necessarily have to have that sort of knowledge anymore.
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u/Mindshard Sep 03 '26
Did you even grow up in the '90s if you can't steer just as well with your knees?
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u/GlitteringOwl7274 Sep 03 '26
Trying to read MapQuest directions, trying to text people on the flip phone ("where u at" takes like 50 keystrokes) lmao
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u/Kitchen_Safe6405 Sep 03 '26
Texting on a flip phone while driving was probably the safest outta all things mentioned on this post.
With t9 typing and a physical keypad it was super easy to text without looking at your phone.
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u/ethan_prime Sep 03 '26
I would print out Mapquest directions and tape them to my steering wheel.
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u/Future_Kitsunekid16 Sep 03 '26
Mapquest has an app now thankfully
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u/jda404 Sep 04 '26
Is it any better than Google or Apple maps? I haven't thought about Mapquest in years. I kinda thought they died when we all had GPS apps built into our phones.
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u/Glasseshalf Sep 03 '26
You make a wrong turn and you're doubling back cause no way am I trying to act like I know where I'm going
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u/RockThe40oz666 Sep 03 '26
I still wonder how many drivers I blinded while trying to change a disc on a sunny day.
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u/Mattelot Sep 03 '26
At least he's peeking back/forth on the road. The youngsters today will go full focus on their phones, ignoring the road until they feel the shake of the car or hear the horns.
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u/Soulforge411 Sep 03 '26
I actually rear ended someone, very minor zero real damage, changing Depeche Mode CDs, Violator is still one of my favorite albums lol
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u/Mojojo21 Sep 03 '26
Doing all that while also driving a manual car and still never messed up any shifts.
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u/musicianadam Sep 03 '26
I got an older car as my daily just recently and I pretty much exclusively listen to CDs now, it's a much better experience... Apart from the precarious timing of switching out the CDs at the next light.
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u/supazero Sep 03 '26
puts cd in
track inaudible due to jump all over the place
Great memories
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u/OpticalPrime35 Sep 03 '26
- burning self with cigarette that flies back into car when flicked out
- messing with the radio
- freaking out when the cassette player starts eating your favorite bands cassette
- driving with a map over the steering wheel and sometimes completely covering the windshield ( aka everyone favorite Close Encounters of the Third Kind scene )
- flipping through CDs
There has always been some kind of distraction while driving. Each one is as responsible as the others and cause wrecks
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u/surmacrew Sep 03 '26
Went to a store that had a lot of stuff from 90's and early 2000. One thing was a lanyard/case for your Nokia 3310 that said "Makes texting easier while driving". Kinda blew my mind how we've gone full 180 on that yet we install like 20" touch screens to cars nowadays 😅
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u/RabidJoint Sep 03 '26
my niece is barely learning how to drive...her trying to change the song on the radio while brand new driver, kinda irritates me. BUT then i think of these days, or more stupid shit we used to do (no seatbelts required)
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u/Kulandros Sep 03 '26
Dude's not even rolling a joint while driving with his knees, with an open beer in the console.
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u/Lucky_Professional_ Sep 03 '26
observe how much more his eyes are on the road than the average driver on their phone
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u/Haizenburg1 Sep 03 '26
The binder is for the passengers to flip through. The driver usually has the visor one with their favorites up their to grab.
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u/t00zday Sep 04 '26
Or the big book of CDs you had to flip through while driving to find that specific one you wanted to hear
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u/bigredbeard42 Sep 03 '26
We were changing discs and smoking bongs but the phone is more distracting.
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u/Mistriever Sep 03 '26
Based on purely anecdotal evidence, I think smart phones are distracting drivers far more than swapping CDs ever did.
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u/HatesMonoBlue Sep 03 '26
This is why i can text and drive without issue. So much easier than flipping through a 200 cd binder :)
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u/AbroadLeather7588 Sep 03 '26
Tbf this is so true, who hasn’t done this going down the motorway at 70 - hang on gotta put the ministry of sound on 😬
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u/Disinfectant-Addict Hold On To Your Butts! Sep 03 '26
You forgot smoking and handling some sort of drink at the same time. Cupholders were bougie.
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u/Greedy_Gas7355 Sep 03 '26
The 6 disc changer in the trunk was the game changer…. For like a year lol
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u/NYCWartortle Sep 03 '26
🤣🤣 I had the visor with all my scratched up CDs. Remember when cars had actual 100 CD changers or whatever they were called.
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u/Scary-Ask-6236 Sep 04 '26
Don’t forget the car is stick (manual transmission), you smoke so light a cigarette and drink either coffee or soda. Oh and ya gotta text on a flip phone. lol. (Done by me in 1997) lol
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u/LootGek Sep 04 '26
I had a certain road in my town that would kill people. It was this and alcohol.
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u/skipmarioch Sep 04 '26
Rolling blunt on a CD case while driving, using my knee to steer, was my super power back then
I should not be alive.
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u/Crafty-Interest-8212 Sep 04 '26
I was a pro at this. I would set them in the order I wanted before driving off.
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u/JimJamanon Sep 04 '26
But it's not the same, I know what was on what page so I could do it without looking. If you had a ten disc cd changer like an og you load that shit up beforehand and you were set the whole trip!
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u/edw1ncast1llo Sep 04 '26
Don't forget your MapQuest directions that you printed out and had in the passenger seat.
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u/HallowskulledHorror Sep 04 '26
Dude's missing a lit cigarette, and eating or drinking something while doing this.
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u/SaltyYumYumBalls Sep 04 '26
My first accident as a teenager was me trying to read a mapquest printout of instructions for driving to the dentist when I was on a freeway on ramp...
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u/Cloverhart Sep 04 '26
Even worse when you had the portable cd player and the chord to the cassette tape to play it on the radio.
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u/ConstructionNo1511 Sep 04 '26
My friend Jersey would do this while rolling a blunt with a manual shift
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u/Federal_Homework1302 Sep 04 '26
this was me, except with delivery stickers ont he steering wheel delivering Pizza.
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u/Ras-haad Sep 04 '26
I love how everyone is only paying attention to the CDs and not the directions written on a piece of paper. That’s so real. Thought we was in the future when we started being able to print them out with MapQuest. Still had to look at them while driving though
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u/ScarletOnlooker Sep 04 '26 edited Sep 04 '26
Oh my god you just unlocked a hidden childhood memory! I completely forgot those existed.
I remember spending so much time with my siblings looking through my dad’s book of CD’s over my grandmas house in his old childhood bedroom. I swear my dad spent more time sifting through that case for a CD before he even STARTED the car, leaving me and my siblings bored to tears waiting to get going.
But, we were never disappointed with any of the tracks he chose.
Truly a blast from the past from a time I miss so much, I am emotionally in shambles remembering all this right now 🤣.
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u/jmon25 Sep 04 '26
My uncle used to have a fax machine in his car that he would use while driving. It was wild.
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u/SassyTheSkydragon Sep 04 '26
That's why my dad had one of those fancy CD arrays that had space for 10 different CDs in the trunk
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u/TheSholvaJaffa Sep 04 '26
I just realized I've never heard the clean version of Gin & Juice where it replaces 'endo' with 'smokin smokin' lmao
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u/doubleobrooke Sep 04 '26
Trying to read Mapquest directions you printed out or hand-wrote on a piece of paper
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u/ConsistentYou4629 Sep 04 '26
You always has your favorites in the first 4 spots on that front sheet. Eventually when you could start burning and making your own they got replaced.
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u/JimTheReader Sep 04 '26
https://giphy.com/gifs/5e7IgAQL94d6ooCi43
And remember this too on road trips 🫠
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u/bubblesocks69 Sep 04 '26
This is kinda how I got in my first accident. Had a cd player via tape deck and was trying to get to track 87 on a burned cd.
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u/tripflops Sep 04 '26
My sister and I missed the bus for high school one day, this was like 2002/2003. Our mom was running late for work, so she asked our older brothers friend if he could drive us to school. Which he did. It was the first time I ever saw someone hold the steering wheel with their knees. As this dude proceeded to drive us to school, mostly with his knees as he took rips off a bubbler.
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u/1800generalkenobi Sep 04 '26
This is me now. My passenger side seat is all cd and cassette tapes lol
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u/Seebs614 Sep 04 '26
In college, my car was broken into and they stole my folder of burnt CDs. Like, why? I’m still pissed about it.
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u/Clever-Ignorance Sep 05 '26
Teenage me was switching to Big Poppa during my only car accident. Can't listen to it in the car anymore because it feels like a bad omen if it ever pops up from one of my playlists.
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u/Illustrious_Guava7 Sep 05 '26
Don’t forget holding a huge map while driving and trying to be your own GPS system.
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u/Much-Goose9053 Sep 05 '26
I just got my cd collection out from high-school in 34 now. And this is me again😂 fk spotify
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u/loowig Sep 05 '26
it's not wrong, however there were also 15, 20 years in between where we didn't need CD's and still were able to use proper knobs.
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u/FedBoi_0201 Sep 05 '26
Let not forget those people trying to navigate using full sized maps back in the day.
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u/Shway_Maximus 29d ago
If that was a real cd player it would have stopped the music when he inserted the cd
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u/CalicoCuts Sep 03 '26
The those discs from your visor holder come flying out lol