So I plug in the iPod the other day ― which I’ve spent countless hours since I purchased it adding music, maintaining perfect account of every song’s album info (along with album artwork), making sure no scratches come about on its case, caressing it, caring for it as it blooms into a well-adjusted adult iPod with thousands of songs, petting it, cherishing our time spent together in complete harmony ― and iTunes crashes and I lose everything on it.

I’ve come to fully realize that it doesn’t matter what kind of MP3 player you buy, because they’re all crap and none of them do everything you want them to do ― although I’m biased to believe others won’t delete your music.