white earbuds = iPod

[TWIFOSP]

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Originally Posted by Thaddy Funny this comment was brought up, as I'm sitting in the library right now with my portable rig groovin', and the following just happened about 10 minutes ago... I'm sitting here with my E5C's in, just zoning out to some Tool - Reflection, when an older lady approaches me from the right side. She starts making all these wierd (and I must say, hilarious) arm motions to get my attention. When I'm staring at her, she is speaking with very pronounced lip movements. She thinks I'm deaf and the E5C's are hearing aides. I pop them out and say "Can I help you?", and she is taken back! She asks what those things are in my ear, and I respond "They are headphones, only they go in my ear to isolate the music from outside noise." She then says, "Oh, they didn't look like headphones. I thought they were all white like the iPod's!" In the end, she just wanted some computer help, which I gladly performed for her

I've had a similar situation happen to me. I was at the grocery store shopping. Had my pod going with E5cs in. Had the cord ran through my jacket, so you couldn't see it except at the back of my head and in my ears. I noticed some interesting looks while I was shopping but I didn't pay attention, I didn't care. I didn't have to listen to the lame Christmas music that was playing, so it was all good. So I park my cart on the side of the aisle out of the way, so I could grab my weekly 4 soymilks, and this lady ran into my cart. She starts apologizing profusely and very expressively. So I pop out the phones, and I also notice that she's rather LOUD. So I tell her it's ok, don't worry about it, my cart was in the way. And she had this really confused dumb look on her face.

 

[Twigs]

Well at my school almost every single person has either an iPod or iPod mini. So ppl never care whether you have one or not. Which kinda suck cause i liked being the guy with the iPod.

 

[enzoferrari650]

What really bothers me is, whenever I take out my iriver, the first thing people ask me is "What kind of iPod is that????" and then I tell them its not an ipod, and then they say something like "oh so its like one of those target mp3 players?"

I'm like What, dont even talk to me. As for the few that do understand and realize that ipod is not the only branded mp3 player in the world, I thank them and tell them how much I hate those people.