On the Bright Side

So, I was leaving class listening to my Ipod which was in my jacket pocket today, and I jogged across the road to beat the oncoming stream of traffic from the traffic light that was about to turn green. About half way across the music stopped. I assumed my headphones had just come out, but as I got to the other side and tried to plug them back in, my Ipod was gone. You can probably see where this is going. I turned around to see the Ipod laying about 2 feet away from the center line just in time to see the traffic arrive. The first car probably saw it fall out of my pocket so they avoided it. I was so lucky with the next 3 vehicles. A large moving van style truck hit it first, squarely with both tires. You could hear a nice soft little crunch. A pickup and a sedan also scored direct hits as stood gaping. When the line of traffic was gone, I went to grab it and this is what I saw:

Well, it wasn't sitting on a table then, but you get the idea, not pretty. As I'm walking the rest of the way home, lamenting the loss of my $300 toy, I try to be positive. It could've been worse, at least I hadn't started deleting music from my laptop, and even better, there wasn't anyone around to see my idiocy. So I'm fiddling with it as I reach my apartment, thinking that at least now I'll get to see what the inside of one of these things looks like when the fucker turns on:

Yes, it still works! Fully functional, just a little hard to read. Hell, I consider it an upgrade. Now instead of having a boring old Ipod like every teenybopper in America, I have an Ipod and a story. Maybe Ipod will put me in a commercial or something... hmm. I can see it now, my silhouette cursing as my ipod gets run over by 3 cars and then me bopping along when I realize it still plays. Steve Jobs, are you listening? It's marketing gold, and all I want in payment is a new Ipod ...