It’s not even worth saying at this point that Manhattan is absolutely packed with iPods, because everyone already knows that Manhattan is absolutely packed with iPods. The first week or two that I had my own iPod, I used to keep track of how many other iPods I noticed during the course of a day - iPods on the subway, iPods on the sidewalk, iPods at NYU. Generally, any day that involved going below 14th St would be at least a 15-20 iPod day. Now, while I still love my iPod very much, I’ve stopped noticing when I see another person with those distinctive white earbuds, but that doesn’t mean the other people have stopped noticing me. Usually we’re all off in our own little iPod worlds, but once in a while there’s someone who tries very hard to make eye contact with me as a fellow iPod user - someone who wants to have an iPod moment. That’s all well and good, but one of the reasons I got an iPod was so that I could ignore everyone else, and now that I’m over the novelty of being another person with an iPod, why aren’t they?