I freaking chomped into the Apple and got served

Well, i'm a Carr, what else can i say?

So yesterday was the day. After receiving an iPod for graduation and pondering for many months, i decided to order my iBook from Apple. last summer Apple had a deal where you got a free iPod with any order, but i had been watching for an entire year and wellinto the summer and no such deal reappeared. Which is no surprise. With the iPods huge popularity, why bother giving them away? Also, a new iPod had been recently rumored, but all the speculated dates turned out to be bogus, so i had no problem asking for one for graduation. Then came this morning, when it all came down at once.

I headed to work at 845 and arrived to see only Craig sitting in front of the house. "we're not starting til noon. Kabes (our boss) says the wood is too wet." Well that's nice of him to inform us at 8:45 (when we are supposed to be at the house at 9) after not telling us when we were working til after 10 last night. But i was OK with that, i just headed over to craig's house and hopped onto the present computer i am typing on and went to the apple website to check on my recently ordered iBook. First thing i see: "New 20GB iPod." Well dang, not that big a deal. I mean a color screen and slightly longer battery life would have been nice, but i am cool with that. Still, my bad timing is pretty funny. Moving on to the main store site, i browsed the new iPod prices and was observing various other changes to the front page, when, buried in a bottom corner i see...no...it couldn't be. I got served.

"Student Union: College Students. Buy a Mac. Get a free iPod mini. And with your everyday student discount save up to $479.* But act now. This offer is good only through September 24, 2005."

Yeah, and you know when that offer started? mmmmmm, yeah, that would be June 28th...hmmm you know when i ordered my Mac....mmm yeah, that would be june 27th. After waiting for months to buy this thing, i decide to buy it the day before cool stuff comes free with it...bah, at least my iPod isn;t already outdated. I guess it could be worse. I could have paid $320 for my iPod at Best Buy a week before the new ones come out, but who wouldnt use their student discount (love you nathan :) ). OK, i'm done now i guess.

Go buy a Mac and get a free iPod mini (or $179 towards the purchase of one of the other members of the iPod family)