Say Hello to my Little Friend

After finally booking my Europe flights for October on Monday with a travel agent, I had some cash "left over," and decided the time had come to FINALLY replace my iPod. As you may or may not remember, I tragically left my first one in the taxi to my apt coming back from my trip to Paris in December. I've suffered, cried, whimpered, complained, and made excuses for the last eight months, but in the back of my mind promised myself I wouldn't board the plane in October without one.

I went to the iStudio store on Monday, in the pouring rain, right after booking my flights. I stared at the new models, hating their ugly shape, touch screen, and lack of circular volume scroller. Be that as it may, though, the model I had before had been discontinued, and I figured it would be better to have a new one(that I secretly resented for its inferiority to my "first") than to buy one online that was the same as my old one, but tainted by someone else's likely terrible taste in music and neglect. The friendly sales associate who was helping me showed me some of the features and the prices for the different sizes. I knew what size I wanted, but I still had to choose a color. My first one had been a beautiful vibrant metallic green, and I would've loved to have the same color again, but apparently Apple thought that it would be a good idea to make the new ones in pastel metallic shades. They thought wrong. Nevertheless, I had to choose one. Black(which looked more like gray, or dirty silver), green, orange, and pink were obviously out, so I was left with a choice between silver, baby blue, and red. The sales associate told me they didn't have any of the size I wanted in stock that day(in any color), but that there would be more in in three days(Thursday). She suggested I come back in, see the colors in person, and make my choice then. So I thanked her and left, trudging home, in the rain, sans iPod. :/

Today(Thurs) I returned to iStudio, cash in hand(bag), and, after taking another short gander at the products again, I caught an available salesman.
Me:"Sawadee ka, ao nueng sip-hok iPod nano see daeng, ka.(Hello, I want a red 16GB iPod Nano, please.)"
Him:"Oh, vely solly, can only buy red iPod online."
Me: *Frown*

Super. I'd spent all week(well, all three days), and gotten countless opinions from friends and coworkers about my color dilemma. And now I had to choose again. So I went back to the display table, picked up a blue and the silver, and turned them over and over in my hands for the next 20 minutes, trying to make up my mind. The silver one is very sleek, and would match anything, but wouldn't it look too boring? The blue one would be more unique, but it's not a very strong shade, and it wouldn't match some of my outfits, whereas the silver one would. But what if/when it gets scratched? The silver would show the scratches; the blue would hide them better. But who's going to be looking? Me, that's who. But what if I get home and hate the color and wish I'd gotten the other one, and then I'll be stuck with it!(My thoughts at this point took a 5 minute detour back to my Social Psychology course with Dr. Emilee Mitchell, and our discussions about 'buyer's remorse', and how we're usually happier with our purchases if we don't have any choice in our selection.) College..I miss college. When life was easier..when I didn't have to pay for my own crap, and my barista friends would treat me to complimentary coffee on certain days, and I had a kitchen, and I could take road trips in my car on the weekends. My car. Oh, how I miss my car! My beautiful red..maroon..little car. Though it looked kinda purple-ish next to the Grans' new car..purple..red..colors! This brought me back to earth, and back to the decision in front of me. I looked down and noticed that my hand was holding more tightly onto the blue one, so I took it as a sign from my inner subconscious that this was the color for me.
I walked up to the salesman and asked again, this time for a blue one. They searched the computer.

SOLD OUT.

Okay fine. Silver?

SOLD OUT.

At that point it dawned on me that I was clearly asking the wrong question, so I asked the girl behind the counter, "What colors DO you have?" The girl next to her pulls out a box with two colors in it - green and pink.

WELL. Green it was. I forked over the 6,600B($222), and thanked them as I left, purchase in hand at last.

So Ladies and Gentlemen, allow me to introduce you to Genevieve, a lime green 16GB iPod Nano(with built-in clip), and the newest addition to my 'stuff'.