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# Changing expectations
- URL: https://www.lorcandempsey.net/changing-expectations/
- Published: 2005-09-28T23:13:22.000Z
- Updated: 2020-10-28T21:02:52.000Z
- Author: Lorcan Dempsey
- Tags: Systems

Four years in the US, and the lease was up on our car. Now that we have a credit history, and the junk mail to prove it, replacing it proved easier than first time round.  
This afternoon, I played [my first CD](https://www.gracenote.com/music/album.html/genworld/cb5e79a49aefc7b54b8d4be7a6586f7c.html?ref=lorcandempsey.net) in the car. Appropriately for the times, it is a Prius, which localises some of the controls on a distracting touch screen panel. Looking at the screen, I sat there expecting the system to go out to [www.cddb.com](https://www.cddb.com/?ref=lorcandempsey.net) and pull back the details to give me a named track listing. It was a moment before I realized that it was not going to do this for me, that I was in a car which was not ‘on the grid’, and that I would have to be content with ‘track 1’, ‘track 2’, and so on.  
Interesting what sort of expectations somebody even as generationally mature as myself is beginning to have!