Somehow my music collection, which I painstakingly converted into digital bits, became corrupted yesterday. The backup turned out to be not much of a backup so I spent 12 hours reburning all of my music. This frustrating exercise reminded me of something which happened to me a couple of years ago, which brought a rueful smile to my lips on this dour day.
In June of 2007 I loaned a friend my iPod for her to use on a long and horrifying Greyhound Bus trip that she was taking. Later she stopped by my apartment a day or so after returning and dropped my iPod off. She thanked me profusely and then began uncharacteristically giggling.
A short time later I went out for lunch at Thai Avenue, a pretty good Thai place on Broadway near Argyle Street. I took my iPod with me to block out the rabble as I rode the subway to Argyle Street. Once comfortably in my seat, I put my headphones on and pressed play.
To my dismay the sound of Kenny Rogers' song "The Gambler" began playing in my ears. To escape from the aesthetic horror of this I quickly pressed the fast forward command so I could listen to something else. Unfortunately "The Gambler" began playing again. Ugh.
In scrolling through the iPod I then discovered that my friend had deleted all of my music collection leaving just that one song: the horror, the horror!
16 comments:
Oh, that's deliciously devilish!
jay, ya it was funny.
It is funny.
Bitch!!!
The others must not have an ipod!!!
I guess it is easy enough to fix. But... what a moron messing with your electronics.
I have an awesome speaker for my ipod with great playlists for company - an oldies list for the old folks who stop by, xmas list, etc.
Susan, I thought it was.
h40, it was ok, I had everything backed up and got a good chuckle out of it.
wow, if you found it funny I guess you liked her and she knew your sense of humor!
I'd have laughed like a lunatic sittin' on that subway while people edged nervously away from me!!
You got to know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em, and know when to stop loanin' out digital music players! Oh man, I would've cried.
I'm thinking you weren't giggling.
jade, I thought it was a creative and funny joke.
Hk, I had a good laugh about it and read the newspaper on the way home.
"mary" - ugh, hahahaha
Mary, I can take a joke pretty well. I was not mad at all.
I would have been majorly mad. Having to do it all over again...I guess I just don't have enough humor.
That's hilarious!!! Giving me some ideas on what to do with my daughter's ipod. :)
ah, as I have gotten older I continue to mellow. Hopefully like fine wine but perhaps some other metaphor would be more apt.
dead, perhaps some Bay City Rollers are in her future?
Oh no! Not the evil Bay City Rollers! Aaaaah! There is a woman at work who wear's these awful plaid pants that reminds me of them everytime she walks down the hall.
I was thinking more along the lines of Hannah Montana or Hillary Duff.. that would be her equivalent of the Bay City Rollers!
Plaid as a fashion choice for pants is very, very scary!
I find Hannah Montana to be pretty creepy. I guess I just do not understand her splendor, and have some kind of deep irrational disdain of her father.
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