More incredibly bad luck...
I sent this letter yesterday with my crushed ipod enclosed.
I had all my music on that thing and used it about 12 hrs a day...
Nathaniel Meyer
Portland, Me.
Apple
Consumer Relations
1 Infinite Loop
Cupertino, CA 95014
Dear Apple,
This is an account of how I much I loved my 20GB ipod and the story of its tragic demise…
I received my ipod as a birthday present from my parents last July. I am a public school art teacher who drives about and hour to and from school each day. I also spend quite a bit of time after school in my studio working on my own artwork. I listen to my ipod in the car on the way to school, in my classroom as my students are working on their drawings, in the car on the way home, at the gym, and while I’m working at the studio- in short, I use your fine product almost constantly and had no idea how much I would come to depend on it…
So, early in the rainy predawn hours, I was getting ready for school. I was running late, and as I got to my car, I realized I had forgotten my ipod. I went back upstairs to retrieve it, but after spending valuable minutes searching for it, I decided that I was going to have to go without for the day. I drove to pickup my carpool buddy, and we had just gotten on the interstate when I heard something skitter across the roof of my car.
OH NOOO!!!!
I pulled over on the side of interstate 95, jumped out of my car and ran full speed back in the direction I had come. Sure enough, there was my ipod, with its bright blue rubber case lying in the middle of the interstate. “Maybe the case protected it,” I thought to myself as I ran toward it, “ipods are pretty sturdy…” My ipod was in the road between where a cars tires would hit- I was waiting for the slightest break in traffic so I could dart out and retrieve my most valued possession. A car passed over it… whew! I just had to wait for a semi and a pickup truck to pass and maybe it would be okay. I thought the semi must have been changing lanes, or maybe there was some malicious intent on behalf of the driver, but it hit my sweet, innocent ipod with a couple of its mammoth tires. Of course the pickup hit it on the way by as well. I realized later that they saw me on the shoulder, changed to the outside lane as a safety precaution and sealed the fate the my ipod. (oh, bitter irony!) I retrieved it from the middle of the road, it was still in one piece, more or less, but was well and truly dead.
I then had to drive to work, trying not to cry in front of my friend. True, I still had all my music on itunes, but, as a public school teacher, its not like I really have any extra income to get another one.
This brings me to the reason for writing this letter- in short, I REALLY need a new ipod and I currently lack the funds to replace it. If you could see your way to providing me with another, I would sing your praises morning, noon, and night- which not coincidentally, is pretty much the extent to which I use your excellent product.
Yours In Desperation,
Nathaniel Meyer
Drawing and Painting Teacher
Lewiston High School
Lewiston, Maine
I had all my music on that thing and used it about 12 hrs a day...
Nathaniel Meyer
Portland, Me.
Apple
Consumer Relations
1 Infinite Loop
Cupertino, CA 95014
Dear Apple,
This is an account of how I much I loved my 20GB ipod and the story of its tragic demise…
I received my ipod as a birthday present from my parents last July. I am a public school art teacher who drives about and hour to and from school each day. I also spend quite a bit of time after school in my studio working on my own artwork. I listen to my ipod in the car on the way to school, in my classroom as my students are working on their drawings, in the car on the way home, at the gym, and while I’m working at the studio- in short, I use your fine product almost constantly and had no idea how much I would come to depend on it…
So, early in the rainy predawn hours, I was getting ready for school. I was running late, and as I got to my car, I realized I had forgotten my ipod. I went back upstairs to retrieve it, but after spending valuable minutes searching for it, I decided that I was going to have to go without for the day. I drove to pickup my carpool buddy, and we had just gotten on the interstate when I heard something skitter across the roof of my car.
OH NOOO!!!!
I pulled over on the side of interstate 95, jumped out of my car and ran full speed back in the direction I had come. Sure enough, there was my ipod, with its bright blue rubber case lying in the middle of the interstate. “Maybe the case protected it,” I thought to myself as I ran toward it, “ipods are pretty sturdy…” My ipod was in the road between where a cars tires would hit- I was waiting for the slightest break in traffic so I could dart out and retrieve my most valued possession. A car passed over it… whew! I just had to wait for a semi and a pickup truck to pass and maybe it would be okay. I thought the semi must have been changing lanes, or maybe there was some malicious intent on behalf of the driver, but it hit my sweet, innocent ipod with a couple of its mammoth tires. Of course the pickup hit it on the way by as well. I realized later that they saw me on the shoulder, changed to the outside lane as a safety precaution and sealed the fate the my ipod. (oh, bitter irony!) I retrieved it from the middle of the road, it was still in one piece, more or less, but was well and truly dead.
I then had to drive to work, trying not to cry in front of my friend. True, I still had all my music on itunes, but, as a public school teacher, its not like I really have any extra income to get another one.
This brings me to the reason for writing this letter- in short, I REALLY need a new ipod and I currently lack the funds to replace it. If you could see your way to providing me with another, I would sing your praises morning, noon, and night- which not coincidentally, is pretty much the extent to which I use your excellent product.
Yours In Desperation,
Nathaniel Meyer
Drawing and Painting Teacher
Lewiston High School
Lewiston, Maine