Anyone have a DVD drive I can use?

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My grandparents - love them to death, but they are getting a bit senile.

My grandfather sent me a disc in the mail with some old family photos on it. I love hanging the old black and whites and antiques in my home. Well - the first disc was sent in a flimsy envelope - soooo - we all know what happened to that one - I received it in a million pieces
So I told my grandfather to please send another and mark the envelope "fragile".
So I get the second one in the same flimsy envelope with basically a paragraph on the front explaining the contents of the envelope and to postmaster, please be very careful with this disc so it does not break, thank you very much, etc. (Was kinda cute).
Wasn't so cute when I opened it. My grandfather had used two items to prevent breaking - on one side of the disc case was a flattened box of onion soup mix. On the other side was half of a styrofoam tray that hamburger is sold in.
That's right - my grandpa used half of a "used" styrofoam tray to prevent breakage. 1st - those trays snap like nothing so that wasn't going to prevent anything from breaking. 2nd - he didn't wash it first!

That's right - it made a trip from Florida to Massachusetts with god knows how old hamburger grease all over the tray which was also now all over the CD case.
Talk about fear of ecoli or whatever it is.
Now! The icing on the cake is after all that I discover the disc is a DVD RW not a CD RW. I have been to 5 different computers (and every relative I know) to try to just see what's on the disc and nobody has one
. I'm not going back to ask my grandpa for another one. Who knows how it will come this time.
 

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I re-use the styrofom thingys that meat came on for cheap saucers for my seedling plants!! I however wash them first.
Tell them to by (heaven forbid) an envelope that has bubble wrap inside-maybe that have bubble wrap laying around!!
 

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That grandpa of yours has made my day!! That is sooooooooooooooo funny!!!!! He knows the value of a hard-earned nickel, by golly!!!
 
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Originally Posted by Taurus77

That grandpa of yours has made my day!! That is sooooooooooooooo funny!!!!! He knows the value of a hard-earned nickel, by golly!!!
Glad someone found it funny

Washing the hamburg grease off the CD wasn't funny at the time though...hehe
 
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