Ipod…..a simple item to carry my music…not the new Nano, but the older one…but who really cares, cause when it don’t work, it don’t work!

Last year it froze….didn’t know it could freeze. No one told me it could freeze…used to be called ‘stopped working’…..now it is ‘freeze’…..Just like phones…used to be called ‘answer’….now it’s called ‘send’.  Help me here!

Anyhow…..when I ask around, I got this blank stare….’guess you need to go to the Apple store’….. After 20 miles in bumper to bumper traffic.. I got to stand in line for an appointment and then hang out (somewhere of my choosing) til it was time….to  ‘thaw’…no ‘unfreeze’.

The guy was nice….and very capable (of course, anyone age 2 and up is more capable with “I” anything, than me,however that is another story). In essence he just passed is hand over the Nano….said it happens all the time, and I was back to grooving with the 80’s.

Now, in the current year of our Lord….who I hope was not listening when the Nano ‘broke’ again……I found that I could not download music I had purchased from Itunes. I had the right questions, I had the right answers, I plugged in with the right cable, etc, etc….and nothing happened.  If course, there was the manual I could turn to, but…..no, no there wasn’t.  Apple doesn’t believe in those things…except on line.   Not to mention the manual has to be the size of the Obamacare measure, to cover everything that could ever happen  to a Nano.   But I digress.

My PC was good at telling me what I couldn’t do, but not what I could, or should.  I shouted “uncle’….took the Toshiba laptop belonging to hubby, my baby Nano, and off we went to see Mr. or Mrs. Apple head….now now, don’t get huffy…potato head, apple head, no difference, especially in my state of mind.

Mr. Apple reminded me when I walked in that this was not a Toshiba store….as in  ‘ha ha ha’, (in my state of mind). I turned the computer around and ask for an appointment….The earliest was 1 hour 45 min..oh goody.  Too short to go home and come back, and too long to just sit there.  I was safe to shop cause I’d been to Kohl’s and got my ‘fix’ earlier in the day.

I came back early….checked in, and the nice man was nice to the old lady. (okay nice boy, okay young married man).  He told me to remember that a Nano likes only one computer and will always refuse to ‘mess around’ with another computer…very monogomous, these Apples.   So, with a few screens here and a few screens there, topped off with a ‘next’,  a ‘finish’,  a  yes’ and a no, I was back in business.  Why Itunes and Apple does not want their products to mess around (interface) with other Apples is beyond me.  I.D. is I.D. and money is money.   (I’m still digressing aren’t I)

So I left. Nano and Toshiba and me (or I, who cares).  We came home and downloaded some new stuff from Maroon 5 and Bill Withers……(yes, I’m old, but not that old). (Aerosmith, Justin Timberlake, Lady Gaga, Genesis, the Owl guy, etc, etc…love’m all)(there I go again).   So now we’re all happy, except my plug’in (that’s ‘dock’ in your language), speakers don’t work anymore and I’ll be damned if I’m going to spend $100 for another one.  It’s a shame they don’t have a ‘  Mr. MrsMemorex’ store next to the  Mr. Mrs Apple head store.

later….