What in the boomer shit is this caption?

Bic pens were better because their caps were shaped perfectly for the job.

Lol chill, we millennials aren't that old.

Back in the early 90ies I would sometimes find smashed cassettes on the ground with the tape floating in the wind, while coming back from school. I'd grab the tape and splice it into another cassette so that I could hear what was on it.

I've never found anything more than boring music but the act of "repairing" the tape made me feel like a spy.

My first acy of piracy, tho I did not know it at the time, was recording songs from the radio to blank cassettes.

Lol, how old do you think this is? Only people under 30 likely won't get it.

...there are dozens of us!

I'm so old I remember the music industry trying to ban the sale of blank cassettes because of copyright infringement. Oh how we laughed at them.

That cartoon has a glaring error: cassette tapes did not perform the pencil surgery on each other. Humans performed the pencil surgery on the cassette tapes.

But doctor, those are my eyes.

You forget your audience

Cassette tapes were such an obscure format.

"Doctor, will I ever be able to play the piano again?"

I could do it with my finger, no pens/pencils needed.

The pens/pencils were more often used for manual rewinding to save battery life than getting the tape back into the cassette.

ouch, my back