Pod people.
A well-dressed, middle-aged, white guy walked up to me in a bank in Seattle, and as I was switching playlists on my iPod, asked me, "What kind of radio is that?"
Blink.
"It's an Apple iPod."
"Is that like an MP3 player?"
Blink blink.
"Uh, yes. Yes, it is an MP3 player."
Really? REALLY? Never heard of an iPod? Never? Not once? Didn't register? In one of the most technologically advanced cities in the world with a huge population of tech workers? AND a college campus? AND a famous music scene? Never heard of an iPod, despite living in a major metropolitan area in the USA? Despite the billboard I passed on my way into the bank? Despite it being on the back cover of every other Newsweek for the last three years? Despite it being ON the cover of Newsweek just a few months earlier? Or all over television? Despite the ubiquitous white headphones dangling from the ears of at least a dozen people I passed on my way to the bank?
Really? Never heard of an iPod?
I could be wrong, but I'm guessing he is not an "early adopter."
Comments
Funny to think not everyone experiences life as you do, isn't it? ;-)
Posted by: Beth | December 10, 2004 01:49 AM
I talked to a young woman today, in Orange County, who has grown up here, that does not know what Star Wars is.
Does this mean I'm old?
Posted by: Aya | December 10, 2004 02:58 AM
I knew someone from school who thought everclear wrote "brown-eyed girl", and when I played the van morrison one for her, she thought the everclear version was far superior.
Being an offspring of a vegetarian, peace-lovin' hippie, her ignorance made me want to cry.
Posted by: Beth | December 10, 2004 04:56 AM
Beth, did you willingly listen to your parents music when you were a teeny? lol I still don't like "tie a yellow ribbon 'round the old oak tree " by Tony Orlando & Dawn.
Most kids in the 70's discovered Beethoven's 5th on the 'Saturday Night Fever' soundtrack... Saturday Night Fever, what was that? ;)
Posted by: Swissfondue | December 10, 2004 06:18 AM
Jimbo, feel privileged. You were a conduct to this man's epiphany :))
Posted by: Swissfondue | December 10, 2004 06:25 AM
iPod.... don't you mean Walkman?
Posted by: SEAN | December 10, 2004 07:12 AM
i asked my younger brother once if he knew who Paul McCartney was and he said, "yeah, didn't he sing with Michael Jackson?"
---shudder---
Posted by: bmw | December 10, 2004 08:29 AM
i'm surprised he didn't just grunt and point, saying "what that?"
Posted by: becky | December 10, 2004 11:13 AM
of course he knows what an ipod is, silly... but he sure was smooth about that opening line he used to hit on you.
Posted by: dvl | December 10, 2004 11:17 AM
aya, it means you are old and she is an idiot. so don't feel too bad about the old thing.
Posted by: the mighty jimbo | December 10, 2004 11:55 AM
he has pod envy
Posted by: twisteduterus | December 10, 2004 01:47 PM
I actually did enjoy it! My parents weren't into Tony Orlando though, thank God. (:
The heavy hitters in our family are Crosby, Stills and Nash, Simon and Garfunkel, Joni Mitchell, Carole King and anything Motown.
Posted by: Beth | December 10, 2004 02:43 PM
i was listening to the radio the other day while driving to work and someone called in to ask was "a tivo" was!
Posted by: shannon | December 11, 2004 10:28 PM
Does it play 8-tracks?
Posted by: sid | December 13, 2004 12:58 AM
What's an mp-three?
Posted by: Jimmy | December 13, 2004 08:08 PM
I agree with dvl on this one Jimbo....you definitely got hit on.
Posted by: Razor | December 17, 2004 06:51 AM