When Old and New Don't Mix

This afternoon, upon return from our community based instruction trip, one of my students took a seat on the floor in front of a plastic three drawer cart where we keep our music collection. He went through a few of the drawers and choose an old cassette tape, having read the title, "Bruce Springsteen". He then stood up, walked over to the CD player placed the cassette inside the CD player and attempted to crush the tape death by repeatedly slamming the lid.