Old and Tired

Have you tried to find parts for a machine or piece of equipment you have owned for a few years? Typically, even if the machine is a few years old, you can find parts without a problem. I can still get parts for my Smith-Corona typewriter! Well, yesterday I went to find an IPOD cover for a one year old IPOD. The clerk looks at me, looks at the IPOD and says: "wow, this is a 3rd generation IPOD, we don't carry covers for old IPODS." OLD??!! He said that as if I had whipped out my avacado princess wall phone out for a new mouthpiece. I was floored. I have bras older than a year, and my parts still fit! This sort of planned obsolescence is silly. Think of the money that could be made if we could buy parts for the ancient IPOD. So, I go to Circut City. No luck there either. The young man says: "Maybe you can find one on Amazon or Craig's list." I get it. I think I should have just thrown the dumb thing in the trash right there and whipped out my black American Express and said: "just give me what Steve uses; I'll take the latest and greatest." Yeah right. Screw this. I am digging out my 8-track and jammin' to some Earth, Wind and Fire. Shuffle this.