on saturday, before seeing Squirt, i went over to Best Buy; after some exchanging of duped gifts and redemption of old Gift Cards, i bought the Bose In-Ear headphones that i'd been wanting since i 1st saw them on a subway advertisement, about a month ago. i was really excited, as they weren't on sale, but when the smoke cleared i'd only paid about $60 for them. when i got home, stephen rolled his eyes and scoffed that anyone would pay so much for headphones. i honestly didn't expect him to be able to rationalize such a (truly) extravagent purchase, but whatever. this was my Christmas gift to me; i was happy.
they came with the most adorable little "leather-ette" carrying case and 3 pairs of rubber tips in Small, Medium, and Large to maximize the listening experience (Bose knows that some of us have small and delicate ear canals which other, lower quality, heaphones simply don't fit!). i promptly popped on the Small tips and listened to them on the bus, back and forth to work, on Tuesday. let me tell you, the sound was truly remarkable! i didn't know how good Kristine W and Amanda Lepore could sound till i got these headphones. they're magical, i tell you...absolutely magical.
imagine my horror and surprise when i was running for the bus on Wednesday morning, to find that the right tip was missing! did it fall off when i took the heaphones and Baby Blue out of my pocket, while running? did it fall off in the house? it was 6:02 in the morning, pitch black and the psychotic bus-driver, who's supposed to come at 6:10, usually barrels down the street between 5 and 10 minutes early. flustered and upset, i ran back to the house with my eyes on the pavement, gave a cursory look around, grabbed the spare pairs (Medium and Large), and then ran back to the bus stop where i missed my regular bus and caught the one which comes 20 minutes later (ironically, it gets me to work exactly 2o minutes later than it's earlier counterpart).
when i got home at 6:30 (again, in pitch black), i took the flashlight and scanned the path from our house to where i remember noticing that the tip was missing, to no avail. i looked all over the living room, to no avail. i am totally Shit Outta Luck, stuck with one Small and one Medium ear-piece (the Large ones don't even pretend to fit). Thankfully, unlike the last pair i bought (that i loved and lost 2 sets of ear-pieces), Bose sells replacement pieces (at $5 a pair). when i get home i plan on purchasing 2 pairs (just to have a couple of back up).
No comments:
Post a Comment