MP3 Players – a curmudgeon must-have
And Christine the Curmudgeon happens to know of a contest over at Today’s Gizmos, where FIVE lucky winners will receive a 2GB MP3 player, just like the one pictured here!
What you need to do:
Go to the Contest Page. Fill on your name, email, and a techie question in the little form whosit. After you do that, leave a comment on the blog post. That’s it, you are entered! After the contest ends at midnight on October 6, five winners will be drawn randomly, and their new MP3 players will be on their way!
Anyone can enter, you don’t even need to have a blog. And entry is open to anyone in the world.
Christine the Curmudgeon feels that an MP3 player is a necessary piece of equipment for properly practicng the fine art of curmudgeonry. A big part of curmudgeonry is being irritated with annoying people, and finding ways to ignore them. Having the earbuds to an MP3 player in your ears makes it easier to ignore people who annoy you in public.
If you ride any form of public transit…planes, trains, buses, an MP3 player is definitely a must. Say you are waiting for the bus or the subway, or in line at the airport. You know how sometimes strangers try to strike up a conversation, and you just aren’t interested? Well having those earbuds there goes a long way here. Either the idiots see that you have them, can’t hear you, so choose to find someone else to bother…or if they are that dense and try to talk to you, you can’t hear them.
The same goes when actually on a plane, train, or bus. I seem to be a loser magnet, people right next to me always want to chat, and I usually don’t want to hear it. Crank the MP3 player up as loud as you can stand. If the person next to you, who five seconds ago was trying to be your BFF complains, tell them that you’ll make a deal. You’ll turn the sound down if they agree to shut the hell up and not talk to you anymore.
I like to use an MP3 player in the supermarket, too. For some reason, people seem to think that I work there, and ask me where this or that is. It’s annoying as all hell. And let’s not forget the screaming kids that populate most stores. Pop in those earbuds, and you don’t have to hear it. Also good for drowning out annoying people who try to chat you up in line at the store.
See, even Christine the Curmudgeon is with the times, and has an MP3 player. So I won’t be entering this contest, I think that I should give others a chance to win one of their very own. So go now and enter, and good luck! 
