3rd July, 2009 - Goodbye Little iPod

I nearly lost my iPod. This will not come as a great surprise to anyone who knows me. I have for some years been a legendary key-loser. I am in the Guinness Book of Records for the shortest period between putting my keys down and losing them (4.23 picoseconds for those of you with a statistical bent).

However, even in the Big Book of Alan B's Stupid Loss of Things (which is a very big book indeed, even if it is difficult to remember where I left it) the near loss of the iPod was fairly remarkable. See - I put it in a little compartment thing in the car. You know - one of these cunning places that German designers find to store loose change and parking vouchers. Beautifully designed, so that with a single press the compartment glides open to reveal a hitherto undiscovered space: a little box of secrets. A box just enough to fit an iPod in.

And - it seems - a box just small enough for the iPod to block the opening mechanism, thus ensuring that - once snug inside - the iPod remains forever locked in a little secret tomb. I had to prize the whole fascia off from around the gear box with a screwdriver. It made a nasty grating noise followed by a loud crack that suggested irreperable damage. But I have the iPod back.