The iPod that I had gotten for my 15th birthday had been a part of my life for a little more than the past year. This little more than a year is where all the trouble is at. As you know the iPod comes with a one year limited warranty. However this little piece of information I forgot.

You see it all happened one day when I turned on my iPod. The only problem was it did not turn on. I attempted all the procedures found online under the support section of Apple website. None of them worked. The next logical step was to make a trip to the Apple retail store which was only 40 minutes away. Finally, having found a time when my mom could drive me there, we were on our way. I scheduled an appointment at the Guiness Bar through a nicely designed piece of software found on the computers in the store. They called my name quite quickly and I handed my iPod over to the man behind the counter for inspection. He concluded in saying that the hard drive was busted. He then asked for some information to check the warranty and found that it was around a month or two over. After attempting to negoitate with him, I left the Apple Store with my broken iPod in hand.

There is however a positive side to this story. You see I never turn off my iBook, even over
night. The iBook has this light that tells you its sleeping by going from being dim to getting brighter and back down again. I already know that my iBook is sleeping but I also know that I want to be too. So the broken iPod serves the purspose of standing up on it’s side in front of the light. At least I was able to solve this one problem.