An Amusing Defect

Every so often, one buys a product that, upon opening, turns out to be defective, and one returns the item and exchanges it for a new one. Yesterday, such an event happened, but the defect was so entertainingly bizarre that it deserves mention before we repackage it and send it back.

My wife received a Janis Joplin boxed set of 3 CDs. Each CD was housed in a tall, flat case along with the printed inserts that normally accompany single CDs, stacked in a square compartment. As we unpacked the set, something seemed amiss. There was a “Pearl” CD and a “Pearl” insert. There was a “Cosmic Blues” CD and a “Cosmic Blues” insert. There was a “Cheap Thrills” CD and…wait a minute. What’s this? An insert for Cheap Trick’s Greatest Hits.

So…yeah. Someone put the wrong insert in the box. And I can see how it might have happened…the words ”Cheap Thrills” sort of looks like “Cheap Trick” and maybe if one wasn’t very detail oriented or didn’t read English particularly well or had a poor grasp of pop culture…stuff happens. Still, it’s pretty bizarre. But I take some comfort in the knowledge that only a human being, rather than a machine, could have made this error.