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tech crack

We've all been there. You have a bunch of boxes waiting for you at home. Each of which is filled with some strange looking box, wires or other unrecognizable object. Maybe it's the components to a new machine you are building; or the components to a new home theater system. Whatever this collection of nondescript brown boxes may be, in the end the idea is the same; you've got a project, and you are getting it done tonight. Never mind the fact that it's a workday and you got home late; nothing can stop this. Then panic strikes. You've dedicated 5 hours to this project, and it's well into the night when you realize you don't have the last cable, screw or plug. All of the stores that first pop into your head have been closed for hours, and all you can think about is this wonderful piece of whatever that you've waited for, and toiled for hours putting together...and it's just going to sit there for another 15 hours or so. I needed coax cable. I searched through all of the bins I have ripping apart balls of wires that probably haven't been touched since 1997, and still no dice. I decided to hit the streets. My destination was Times Square. My thought was I would go to one of the electronic shops which rip off tourists regularly hoping they would have spare cable. 15 minutes of walking through 20 degree NY streets past 3 strip clubs, 7 porn shops and one questionable gender hooker I found a store which sold me 12 feet of coax at a price I hope to soon forget. Thank you generic NY electronic shop; may you rip off many a tourist and fools like me for years to come.