A Man Bedazzled by CD Technology

Recently, our CD player caught the eye of a middle-aged man who was leaving the sushi bar.  He paused at the counter and took a minute to admire the silver disc as it spun behind the device's see-through window.

"That's cool," he said to the server.  "I didn't know that CDs spun like that when they played."

"Yes," said the server, puzzled at the man's decision to air a confession that anyone with a modicum of shame would keep to themselves.  "Just like a record."

"Wait a minute," the man added.  "You mean a record spins when you play it?  I thought that a turntable held the record still and that the needle and the rest of the universe spun around the record."  (The man never actually said this.)  What he did say was, "I thought the disc stayed still and the laser moved across it."  Which is understandable, since the gentleman has only had over two decades to familiarize himself with compact discs.

And, on the off chance that this dim-witted but gentle man happens to be a regular reader of this blog, I will save him some future embarrassment:

MP3s also spin when you play them.