Well, how do you like these apples?

The Toshiba stopped working (even after I went out and bought he Universal Remote).

The picture kept jumping and twitching. I gave up and brought it around the corner. The guy took one look at my face and said "uh oh".

I said "this does not work". He said 'but I tried it". I said: 'I told you I want a vcr that I can tape on and play tapes from OTHER vcrs."

He said: 'what do you want to do?" I said "let's try the Panasonic Omnivision up there on the shelf, (I have 2 others at home that work just fine).

Brought it home. It had no sound.

Brought it back. The guy looked like he wanted to kill me. I said "Piece of junk, what else do you have.....then I spotted a 2nd Panasonic Omnivision vcr. I said 'let's try that". He gives it to me. I take it home.

Picture is jumping, sound is bad.

I bring it back.

Are you counting so far???

So I said "what's that up on the shelf on the other side??

WELL, WHAT DO YOU KNOW, IT'S ANOTHER PANASONIC OMNIVISION.

He takes it down and he goes "but you should have taken the Toshiba, if you press the record button on the machine....blah blah.

I then said: "listen to me, I can eat and spit out VCR's in my sleep, I've owned them for over 20 years, I even put one together once. The recording heads don't work on these, so let's give this 4th one a go.

I take it home. Oh brother. I had to find some tapes that it worked with. I finally was able to record and play something.

I'm not going back to him. I think he'll close down the store if he sees me coming in for the 5th time.

Tomorrow we are taking a walk to the electronics store not too far from my house (I know, I should have gone there in the first place). . If they have vcr's (new), we'll see.

But for now, this stupid thing works, NOT GREAT, but it will do what it has to do.

Good Lord. I have now realized I am addicted to taping EVERYTHING.

So good bye Toshiba, and a return HELLO to my Panasonic.

Even if it did take 4 attempts.

Oh, by the way, I will never buy a second hand anything again.

It's not worth the 20 or 25 dollars to go back and forth 4 times. (or was it 5??)

lol