The future producer of “Himbo Heist”: VICTORY! I am hooking up my sound bar that I haven't had hooked up for years. I needed an AUX cable. Did I have one handy? No. Did I go to The Big Box Of Cables? YES! And what did I find there? THE EXACT CABLE I NEED! As well as an S-video cable and 9 RCA cables, if anyone needs some of those.

VICTORY! I am hooking up my sound bar that I haven't had hooked up for years. I needed an AUX cable. Did I have one handy? No. Did I go to The Big Box Of Cables? YES! And what did I find there? THE EXACT CABLE I NEED! As well as an S-video cable and 9 RCA cables, if anyone needs some of those.

Got plenty, thanks. Can I offer you some thin Ethernet cables?

Deep cut. Very deep.

Also: "The" big box of cables? ONE?!

I have a home "big box of cables" and a travel "big box of cables". You need a lightening to hdmi cable in some motel 8 in Ohio? MY TIME HAS COME!

I have a garage wall full of big boxes of carefully packed cables plus several random ones scattered about the house plus the bogeyman box’o’ strange cables that hides under the stairs and I mostly steer clear of because it scares me. Oh, plus three kids’ own boxes of cables…

cheapernet!

Oh, I *also* have lots of long serial cables and gender changers and random twisted pairs for setting up impromptu networking at kids' camps in rented school buildings. And a stack of V.34 modems. And probably an ISDN modem card somewhere...

I have a USB WiFi adapter.

I have prototype PCMCIA Wifi adapters for which I wrote the firmware.

Respect.

I had a US Robotics PCMCIA refrigerator magnet. It was the case with the guts replaced with the magnet.

I think my father still has some Itanium processors. There was some kind of mixup with the power supplies used in QA and they fried a bunch of them.

Sweet!

I finally ditched the PC Card Wi-Fi adapters and gave away the PC Card USB 3 adapter! Still have the extra long Corning glass USB cable somewhere

I have a 50 foot OPT cable.

I’ve got a box of them. My house runs on a cluster of Raspberry Pi systems and every time I upgrade I end up with another USB WiFi adapter.

We had a token ring switch at my last job. It was still used for customer support for this ancient warehouse pick system that was still used by few customers.

Any of them playing video? You're welcome! :-p

Someone has been to my office I see

this is clear vindication for your choice to keep those cables for these many years

Did my wife hear me shout "TRIUMPH!" and come by my office to see what shenanigans I was up to? Yes, she did. Has she accepted the wisdom of keeping The Big Box Of Cables? No, she has not.

vindication for the Big Box of Cables

Big Box of Cables is evolving into Big Box of Knotted Cables from the Abyss.

I will always defend the big box of cables I’ve been saved by my father’s more times than I can count.

This will be used as proof for the continued life of many Big Boxes of Cables.

I share for those who need the justification. "Honey, you've never needed anything from that box." "BUT! Once a guy I read about on a niche microblogging site used his Big Box Of Cables and hooked up a sound bar!"

I did exactly that recently except it was a subwoofer instead of a soundbar. Solidarity.

My soundbar also has a subwoofer.

Perfect.

THIS IS WHY YOU NEVER THROW OUT THE BIG BOX OF CABLES OR THE SCRAP WOOD

YES!! BIG CABLES BOX WINS AGAIN

I need a bluetooth cable if you have one of them.

You are now an honorary AV Tech!

Yeah! Vindication!

10 cables you didn't need for 1 you did is indeed a great victory--congratulations 8-)

Cable Hoarders Unite!

SO satisfying

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