DVD-player

Today (Friday, December 29; the day before our 39th [sorry 100th] wedding anniversary) I purchased a DVD-player from Best Buy.
Our VCR came from Best Buy. It’s 5-6 years old.
The DVD-player is actually a combination VCR and DVD-player plus recorder.
Made sense to me. I don’t wanna toss all my VHS video-tapes, yet our VCR is ancient and would probably tank soon.
My ‘pyooter is a DVD-player, and would play DVDs. But to me that’s kind of silly — plus the ‘pyooter is in the ‘pyooter-center, not where I eat.
About the only time I get to play anything at all is when eating — although stuff will get written for FlagOut if it needs to be done.
Our lives are so full of errands/appointments the purchase of a DVD-player had to be a surgical-strike*. No driving all over creation to save 50¢.
The fact the VCR came from Best Buy was excuse to try Best Buy again.
The store is gigantic, surrounded by glowering intimidators in their careening automobiles, and filled with glittering gizmos.
It was hard to find the DVD-players amidst all the digital-cameras, cellphones, and home-theater equipment.
Gigantic plasma-babies covered an entire wall, flashing in unison.
The hi-fi section was emitting “Boom-chicka-boom-chicka-boom-chicka-boom-chicka.....”
A youngish sales-clerk asked if he could answer questions, so I recounted that our cable feeds directly into the VCR, and the VCR feeds the TV — i.e. no direct cable to the TV.
What I wanted was a DVD-player that could feed the VCR (or vice-versa); and then the VCR (or DVD) fed the TV.
What I was led to believe was that it was either-or; you have to switch feeds.
I also suggested I needed a DVD-player that could also record. —We transferred to another aisle.
The clerk then suggested a combination VCR/DVD that had its own internal switching, yet only one feed to the TV.
Viola, I guess. I had planned to save the VCR we have, but it’s old. Saving it and putting a DVD-player on top would mean another box. A combination VCR/DVD is only one box.
$269.99.
I predict sonorous blustering from West Bridgewater, about how I’m finally meshing with the 21st century. This from the guy who prefers a motorbike based on the 1939 Harley. How I coulda got the same thing from Wal*Mart for only 50¢ — “they saw you coming......”

*Today’s surfeit of errands: 1) PT-gym; 3+ hours; 2) trip to Best Buy on Thruway; about 30 minutes; 3) Best Buy; about 15-20 minutes; 4) Californy Weggers (near Best Buy) to use the bathroom and purchase light havarti, milk and a banana; about 20 minutes; 5) drive to Honeoye Falls; about 20-25 minutes; 6) hit the Honeoye Falls Rite-Aid (a pharmacy) to pick up a prescription; 10-15 minutes; 7) attend a birthday-party tonight after 6:30 p.m. Clean-up seems beyond-the-pale.
Tomorrow Linda works at the post-office until 12:30, and then our “relatives” come after that. Heavy fawning expected over the LHMB; this is the guy with the Big Dog. Try to keep dogs from biting our great-niece, despite her jumping all over them.

The VCR/DVD will probably not get set up until next week — in fact, it probably won’t even get out of the box. Oh, woe is me.......... Utterly reprehensible!