See-These

2.5 Years: “These are called See-These, but you can’t see these because they might get scratched.”

Back in the Dark Ages, when listening to music—at least for me—still meant popping a disk into a circa 1999 CD player, my folder full of disks was a constant source of fascination to my daughter. What were those mysterious instruments of sorcery, and how on Earth did they work? Why were they so shiny? Were they as fragile as they looked? What would happen if you put one in the player upside down? What did all the pictures and letters on them mean? And, perhaps the greatest mystery of all: why were they called See These, if an inquisitive toddler wasn’t supposed to take them out to examine them?