I hereby hate iPods.

Alright. So, I have a five or six year old CD player. Not ancient, but not brand new. It works just fine, but it's getting picky about one or two newer CDs. It doesn't like Gretchen Wilson's All Jacked Up, and it doesn't like Brad Paisley's 5th Gear. It's not picky about anything else, though, just those two. Well... and the occasional burned CD. But I got a bit sick of it taking a lot of poking to make it play Brad, so I decided that it's time for a new one.

THEY DON'T EXIST ANYMORE. You can't get boomboxes. From anywhere. Ever since the iPod showed up, people assume that no one listens to CDs anymore. That's ridiculous! I mean, I'm not dropping 300 bucks or more for some stupid little gadget that will be obsolete next year, anyway! GAH. I hate gadgets like that that assume they're the most important thing in the world, and that EVERY person in the world is going to own one.

So, here's what my day was like. Mom decided she wanted to go grocery shopping for some more snacks and stuff, so I decided to look at new CD players while we were there. I found a really good one for 35 bucks. Bought it, took it home... and guess what? Stupid thing was defective. It doesn't play CDs! The radio worked fine, but it had some problem where it thought the lid was up all the time, so it wouldn't play anything! So that went back to the store right after that.

So I went to Radio Shack then to see if they have one. Of course not! They haven't seen one of those in YEARS! Apparently EVERYTHING is digital music now. So stupid.

Then it's off to Best Buy to see if they have anything. No boomboxes, of course! Found one that was kinda.... meh. It was 20 bucks though, and the only one left in existence. So I picked that up, but went to look at the more expensive things, just because. And you'll never guess what I saw. Frigging Dead Man's Chest CD player. I mean that quite literally. It was the Dead Man's Chest. And it was a CD player. It was the COOLEST thing I've seen since my Elvis Purse. So I put down the $20 one, and I bought the Pirate player.

Got it home... it doesn't take headphones. That is my ONE requirement. If it doesn't take headphones, it's stupid, and it goes.

So I've gotta take it back tomorrow. GAH! So frusterated. And iPods are totally to blame.