I lost my IPod, an Ipod thats been in use for the sum total of one week.
Basically, last night, after studying I left the library and remember putting the IPod into my pocket, zipping it up and heading home. Anyway we had the first real snowfall here last night, so naturally a snowfight was in order. I called over to some friends, where I remember looking in my pockets for a glasses cloth, dont remember if I took out the ipod or not, wiped my glasses, put the cloth away, went outside and played in the snow for about an hour.
All the time I was out there I was thinking to myself I really should go home and put it away, it could get damaged, but I didnt. I wasnt really into the snowfight anyway, so I figured it would be fine.
Anyway after an hour of being outside, most of us headed back. I got home, cleaned up after my housemates pizza party and then decided to do a trial pack to see if all my clothes would fit in my suitcase. They did but thats irrelevant. Anyway I unpacked and thought to myself ‘better charge the Ipod, will want to use it tomorrow’.
Thats when I realise its nowhere to be found, I searched my room for about an hour, then our living area, I even went back out in the snow at 3 am. No sign of it anywhere.
So my IPod is lost and Im really really pissed at myself, Im such a complete idiot.
I was Gander Mountain last night and some guy brought back in an $800 crossbow he’d bought earlier that afternoon. He’d gotton home, decided to show it to his wife, cocked back the string and, having no arrows yet, dryfired it.
He actually brought back in a brand new $800 collection of shards.
My deepest condolences. You didn’t even have long enough to fall in love with it.
btw, my credit card has a 14 day purchase protection thing on it. Anything happens to it in the first 14 days, your ass is covered. Might you have the same thing?
Crossbows can’t be dryfired without destroying them? Huh… that’s certainly nonintuitive to me. You’d think there would have been a pretty visible warning to that effect.
Thats awful, I have lost expensive stuff like that and it is so frustrating. You just hate yourself. But you know, they say that if you love something let it go. If you iPod loves you back it will show up in a few days begging for forgivnance.
I think that’s true of a number of bows, not just the crossbow. “Crossbow dry fire damage” did give me over 9000 hits though.
This particular one required 200 foot lbs to draw, aided with the help of a special crank. I believe that not only will a dry fire harm it but if your bolt’s too lite then potentially damage may occur. Kinda like with a launcher on a carrier, object and force must be closely matched, just on a much smaller scale.
Sorry about your pod, Delly. What do those things run?
It turned up earlier today, a friend of mine went looking for it around 4pm and found it a place where I had already looked twice. Evidently I’m blind. It still works too which is pretty cool considering ithad been lying in wet snow since midnight last night. YAY!
Just to address ome of the other things asked, my credit card may have something like that, MrFancyPants, but to be honest I have no idea, I bought the iPod about 2 months ago, just never got around to putting my music onto it, so that wouldnt have applied anyway.
lieu, I bought it in the Apple store in Manhattan, Its a pink mini, and cost about $300 US dollars.