Not long ago, the Warden was delighted to win a fancy schmancy Ipod Touch. She has an Ipod but it's only one of those tiny Shuffle thingys that doesn't even hold enough songs to lull me to sleep (if I were into Ipods, which I'm not.)
So the Warden took her new Ipod Touch out of the box all excited to try it out, but she couldn't get it to play right. She said it only played music if she held the headphone jack in with her hand. Now, I'm only a kitteh but even I know this isn't the way you're sposed to have to use an Ipod.
The Warden was upset. She contacted the people she won it from and they sent her the receipt. But it turns out all she had to do was contact the Apple peeps, who arranged for a box to be sent so she could ship it back to be repaired or replaced.
Two days after sending it off, the Ipod came back (woot! now that's service!) but the note said they couldn't "recreate the problem" and that the Ipod worked fine for the techs. So the Warden turned it on again and had the same problem as before. Uh-oh. I think I saw steam coming out of her ears.
She started to wonder if it wouldn't play because of something she was doing wrong. I was like, Warden... seriously...how hard is it to operate an Ipod? She didn't listen to me, though, and decided to take the Ipod to Radio Shack to ask them for advice. Good on ya, Warden!She told the guy what the problem was and he asked her if she had the headphone jack pushed all the way in. She said she pushed it in as far as it would go, and that she thought pushing it in farther would break something. The guy took the Ipod from her, gave the headphone jack a nice big push and it clicked into place. Voila! Music! And you don't even have to hold the jack in with your hand!
The Warden said she's never been so embarrassed in all her elebenty billion years on earth. I ask you again...how hard is it to operate an Ipod??
our mom occasionally has "technical difficulties" and actually had to take her phone to Verizon to get it fixed....the guy took the battery out and put it back in. sigh.....
ReplyDeleteOh don't feel bad, Mom, our Person would have done the same thing. That technical stuff is just beyond our Person. Now your Mom can listen to her music. Take care.
ReplyDeleteMOL!! Our Mom does the same thing too!!!
ReplyDeleteNow THAT is funny, Annabelle! We are glad everything worked out in the end. :)
ReplyDeletePersonally, we think your Warden is VERY smart! Maybe just not a "techie." ;)
MOL, that is too funny.
ReplyDeleteYour Warden sounds a lot like our Mommy.
MOL!!! That is totally something that my human would do.
ReplyDeletegotta say.......your warden just might be one sandwich short of a picnic with that one hehehehe
ReplyDeleteIs your warden related to our Jan? Sounds like something she could do. Not that she has an ipod. But if she did ...
ReplyDeleteAt least it works now. Our mom probably would have given up.
ReplyDeleteannabelle...we canna commint coz de food serviss purrson heer...just like last month....new sum thin wuz knot rite with de remote for de alarm.... for see curitee purpozez....sew her getz sum brand new battreez....
ReplyDeleteand it took 75 thousand hours for her ta getz it a part frum de get go....meen while we haz pazzed out frum hunger, knot havin eaten any kibble in ...5 minits...wears de soft food gurl
FINAL lee de thinga whatcha call it iz bak two gether...it doez KNOT werk...noe alarm...noe beepz...new battreez....noe nothin .....N we NOE de "F" werd.....flounder..... iz reddy ta come outta her mouth coz her went poundin down de hall way.....
onlee ta see de front door..... wuz never shutted in de furst place...... N sinz ya gotta SHUT de door...... ta act tee vate de alarm.......
yea..........
hay, hope ewe haza flounder filled week oh end !!
Well dang, it is an iPod Touch so it just needed someone to show her the right touch!
ReplyDeletehey, better it be something easy then something so difficult it can't be repaired :)
ReplyDeleteEnjoy the touch!
BWAA-HA-HAA! Humans! If oooonly we had opposable thumbs, yanno?
ReplyDelete(Seriouslies, we're glad it 8wasn't* broken! Whew!)
That is quite a funny story, but we understand why your Warden felt embarrassed. A lto of our hoomins are techno-challenged.
ReplyDeleteIt's embarrassing when stuff like that happens, but it's like when we learn where the litterbox is... we don't ever forget after we learn the lesson. She won't make that mistake again!
ReplyDeleteHAH! When I saw this title, I said to myself "don't be to sure cos my peeps don't seem like the crispest fries in the Happy Meal." Na mean? This sounds like a perfect Senile Saturday! Even Pop knows how to work his iPod Touch. Live and learn.
ReplyDeleteYou're in the middle of the garden! jajaja
ReplyDeleteThat sounds like our Mum too - if there are two things to do to make something work why does she always do them in the wrong order!!
ReplyDeleteLuv Hannah and Lucy xx xx
Seriously... the same thing happened to our human, only it was with her Bluetooth ear piece. Geeeezzz.... just put the jack in with a bit of force and voila, it works!!!
ReplyDeletePurrs from the Zee and Zoey gang!
I saw my mom have to go get her blue tooth thingy for her ear "fixed" (paired) over and over. Poor pitiful woman.
ReplyDeleteMOL! Annabelle, she shoulda asked you to help her!
ReplyDeleteYears ago, back in the dark ages, when the Human was about 25, she and several roommates rented a big house in Tamalpais Valley. Their landlord was a nice guy who was quite the DIY type, but when their oven stopped working, he said he didn't "do" electricity and that he would send over an electrician.
ReplyDeleteBecause it was summer and the Human was a teacher, she was the one who got to stay home and wait for the guy. He arrived right on time and the Human explained to him that, very suddenly, a couple of days previously, the oven had completely stopped working.
He opened the door, pointed to a toggle switch on the side labeled "On" & "Off", and flipped it back over to "On."
All fixed, he said cheerily as he departed.
HAHAHA! That's so funny! We aren't sure if Mommy had any such "tech difficulties" before. She isn't telling!
ReplyDeleteGlad you got that taken care of!
ReplyDeleteHAHAHA!! The Staff doesn't know I know this, but she did the EXACT same thing with her iphone!! Boy did she feel stoopid!!! Tell the Warden, she is not alone in theranks of the stoopid!! :)
ReplyDeleteUh my Human could see herself in a similar scenario...I ask you, do we kitties have to teach them EVERYTHING?
ReplyDeleteOh no!!! Hahaha! Poor Warden!
ReplyDeleteFun just to sit back and watch what those humans can get themselves into. Thanks for stopping by the other day to help me celebrate my Blogoversary. Hope you made it home OK.
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