Two Ways to Look at It
1. If I hadn't stupidly left my ipod sitting on top of a treadmill at the gym, I would still have my ipod. I wouldn't have to re-rip a bunch of CDs to load up and otherwise configure a new one, and I'd be about $250 richer.
2. If I hadn't stupidly left my ipod sitting on top of a treadmill at the gym, I would not have taken a nice long walk to and from the Apple store on Newbury to get a new one, under a sky that is actually honest-to-gosh blue and a sun that made it honest-to-gosh warm out for the first time in what seems like forever. I would not have run into an acquaintance and his wife-who-I-hadn't-met-yet, I would not have seen the goofy spectacle of OMGRapture megaphone trolls being studiously ignored by every single person in or passing through Copley Square, and I would not have a shiny new iPod with a larger storage capacity than my old one and the optimism that a blank slate always inspires. No scratches on the screen, no dust in the crevices, no mis-tagged files mucking things up.
But if I get home and there's a message from the nice lady at the gym saying somebody turned my ipod in? I'm totally selling the new one.
2. If I hadn't stupidly left my ipod sitting on top of a treadmill at the gym, I would not have taken a nice long walk to and from the Apple store on Newbury to get a new one, under a sky that is actually honest-to-gosh blue and a sun that made it honest-to-gosh warm out for the first time in what seems like forever. I would not have run into an acquaintance and his wife-who-I-hadn't-met-yet, I would not have seen the goofy spectacle of OMGRapture megaphone trolls being studiously ignored by every single person in or passing through Copley Square, and I would not have a shiny new iPod with a larger storage capacity than my old one and the optimism that a blank slate always inspires. No scratches on the screen, no dust in the crevices, no mis-tagged files mucking things up.
But if I get home and there's a message from the nice lady at the gym saying somebody turned my ipod in? I'm totally selling the new one.