Having your own disc collection scratched is devastating. I can’t sympathize more with those of you who have had their White Album damaged by a mangy younger sibling or those of you who have had their Miller’s Crossing disc ruined by a past room mate.
How outlandish is it to expect a disc to be returned intact and working? I know how truly upsetting having one’s disc damaged is. The reason that the scratched disc is more upsetting than other things broken is that the scratch, and ultimately the end of the disc, sometimes goes unnoticed for a while.
Therefore you let your friend borrow your full collection of the O.C discs. Now, unknown to you, one of those 16 discs returned is marred beyond restore. You’ll discover that the disc is ruined and ultimately an O.C season is ruined, as the show is largely serialized, until you choose to sit down and watch all four of those seasons.
It will not happen until you’ve grown apart from said friend and are ill in bed with sinus problem or something like that. When you discover the ruined disc you choose to call the former friend. Her number is disconnected and you wish her just the worst. Your next move is the most risky and most far-fetched: the DVD scratch remover.
You’ve seen this advertised before therefore you bundle up, have a pull from the cough and sinus decongestant, and visit the store. After buying the DVD scratch remover you sit at your tiny desk and place the disc in the machine and follow the directions. You look at the supposedly fixed disc and it does look shinier and new, but does it work?
You throw it into your DVD player and press play button and you hear the Phantom Planet music you’ve been longing for. Thank you disc scratch remover! You had your anxieties regarding this all, you had your doubts regarding this former friend and start to hope she has merely changed her number and the most terrible of fates has not found her.
You start to understand that life is not so horrible after all, I mean life isn’t that bad in Orange County, therefore how could it be that bad in Madison, Wisconsin? You take another pull from your cough and sinus decongestant and fall into a peaceful preparative slumber.