iPod Stupidity

There were these people standing on the Austin jogging trails...

They were waiting for a friend. One of them was stretching. One was jogging in place. One was gazing blankly into space, nodding her head to music only she could hear. They were all wearing iPods.

They couldn't hear each other, so they just motioned with their hands and made faces. When the fourth of them came running up waving and explaining, they couldn't hear her, either. They just smiled and then started to run to their music, leaving her no time to warm up. She adjusted her iPod and chased after them as they took off across the bridge.

There was this guy driving into the Houston...

He was driving into the rising sun. It was rush hour. Highway construction was all around. The on-ramps and off-ramps were muddy from the rains that morning, and the traffic was piled up. He was wearing an iPod.

He was immune to the traffic as he listened to the podcast he had downloaded the night before. The traffic stopped and started, but all that registered was the Berkeley professor talking about the structure of trade in the 1400s. Then he missed his exit, not even noticing until it was in his rear view mirror. In the stop-and-go traffic, he had to creep further down the highway and loop back, hoping he could make up the lost time.

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